TllE CANADIAN IIOltTlCULTUKIST. 3 



not be so anxious to get rid of liis apples as to spoil the price of liie 

 barreled fruit. 



Another result from this clean consumption of all the apples will 

 doubtless be a very great reduction of the codlin moth ; for every 

 apple being removed frpm the orchards, and the wormy fruit in par- 

 ticular subjected to these processes of manufacture, the insects will be 

 taken to factories and there so severely handled that most of them will 

 perish. Is there not in this a more sure and universal trapping of the 

 codlin moth tlian would be effected, in a century by the scattered use 

 of bands of paper or cloth or any otlier of the traps that have been 

 devised for lessening their numbers ? Should this result follow, there 

 will soon be an .abundance of perfect fruit, free from the excavations 

 of these little pests, to gladden both producer and consumer. 



THE BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. 



Honeysuckles we generally think of as climbers. Their rich, shining, 

 glossy leaves, and iii many cases, sweet sented flowers, are seen clustering 

 above the eaves of every cottage by the wayside. No plant is more 

 generally healthy, and none bears with less injury the rigours of the most 

 trying exposures. Loaicera is the botanical term applied to all honey- 

 suckles, but under the term aie included forms tliat are as far removed from 

 a climbing vine as any shrub. These forms of honeysuckles are genuine 

 shrubs, not climbers artiticially trained into shrubs after the method often 

 applied to wistarias and trumpet creepers. They have every attribute of a 

 shrub, and some of the best attributes developed in a high degree. These 

 attributes are natiu-ally shared in nearly equal degrees by both climbers and 

 buslies of the genus lonicera, and they consist largely in extreme hardiness 

 4ind vigor or growth. In the roughest, most exposed positions by the sea- 

 shore, or on bleak hillsides, may be seen in the thriftiest, healthiest condition, 

 honeysuckles of all kinds, ^nd particnlarlj' those cidied fly honeysuckles or 

 bush honeysuckles, Lonicera or Xylosteum. It is true the habit of the bush 

 honeysuckle is a little coarse, but it is so vigorous, and such a lively green 

 throughout the .season until late fall, that one forgives it a little want of 

 fineness of nature. 



Their flowers are not specially conspicuous, but always pleasing, ranging 

 in the several species and varieties through many shades of white, yellow, 

 pink and i-ed. There are at least flfty species and varieties known in 

 collections, and among them is considerable variety of color and form, 

 although the general ap[)earance of all bush honeysuckles is much the same. 

 All have good-sized, bright green leaves, quite distinct from those of the 

 clind)ing honeysuckle, but the general appearance of the leaf and size of the 

 flower is much the same. The different species come from widely diverse 



