PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS 



to raise. The seeds germinate freely, whether 

 planted in the fall or the following spring. 

 There are several other species, and among them 

 may be noted H. fulva, which is taller than 

 the former, and bears copper-colored flowers ; 

 H. middendorfii, a Siberian species, with golden- 

 yellow flowers ; and H. minor, with grass-like 

 leaves, comes also from Siberia. 



On one occasion attracted by a dealer's adver- 

 tisement of a White Day Lily, I ordered a 

 dozen plants, only to find that I had received 

 a consignment of Funkia, the Plantain Lily, 

 for which I really did not care at all. You 

 cannot always order by familiar names and be 

 sure of getting what you want. Thus, if you order 

 a plant of Woodbine, you may get either the 

 Virginia Creeper or a Honeysuckle. When 

 the late lamented Colonel James Fisk, Jr. told 

 the court, on cross-examination, that the money 

 of the Erie Railroad had " gone where the wood- 

 bine twineth," no one knew whether he referred to 

 Lonicera Periclymenum or Ampelopsis quinquefolia, 

 the former of which a dealer describes as " Com- 

 mon Woodbine," and the latter is characterized by 

 the same authority as " Our Well-known Wood- 

 bine." It is undoubtedly true, however, that 



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