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places 200 meters (about 620 ft.) or more, from any others of 

 the species which could have given rise to it. The seedling starts 

 by sending out a number of prostrate branches which creep along 

 on the ground sending out runners of their own in every direc- 

 tion until they find something to climb on, and in an incredibly 

 short time will overrun everything that stands in their way. 



Fig. 2 — A honeysuckle junj 



on the borders of a small stream in Wilkes 

 County, Ga. 



But after all has been said, the paucity of fruit in a plant so 

 widely distributed has always been a puzzle to me, and as the 

 flowers are dependent upon insect fertilization, I have some- 

 times wondered whether this might not be a case like that of the 

 Smyrna figs, in which a particular insect partner was needed to 

 insure pollination. The most reasonable explanation, however, 

 seems to be that wherever the honeysuckle can propagate itself 

 vegetatively, it employs that method in preference to wasting 

 its energies in the more exhausting and expensive process of seed 



