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forms, the recently introduced Japanese species, 

 Lonictra HalUana, is its most beautiful repre- 

 sentative for the veranda, arbor, trellis, or uall. 

 This, though comparatively little known in Eu- 

 rope, is widely disseminated with us, where it 

 was first introduced with the beautiful Japanese 

 Magnolia HalUana, by Dr. Hall, of Elmira. 

 I know of no climber that combines so many 

 good qualities ; for. independent of its vigorous 

 growth and prodigality of fragrant white blos- 

 soms, it would be beautiful for its dark-green 

 evergreen foliage, which it retains during a great 

 portion of the winter. 



With honeysuckles, as with many other 

 things, however, absolute perfection is seldom 

 found in a single variety or individual. While 

 this species is as yet without insect -enemies, and 

 is unquestionably hardy, it is nevertheless liable, 

 even after having passed unscathed through sev- 

 eral severe winters, to die down suddenly in 

 spring, apparently from the effects of the cold. 

 This is the case mostly with old plants, and I 

 am not certain whether it is entirely a matter of 

 climate, or whether it is not due partly to its 

 habit of twining so closely as to strangle itself. 

 But it is so rapid a grower that plants are soon 

 replaced, and its odor is so delicious and its 

 blooming period so continuous, that it is worth 



