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as bush honeysuckles, such as here described, are pretty 

 well represented in our gardens, though some equally good 

 varieties, and perhaps better, have not as yet been brought 

 to the notice of the general public. 



There are several American species, mostly small 

 shrubs, which, though not so showy in fruit or flower as 

 some of the foreign sorts, are worthy of more general 

 recognition than they have yet received. Professor Gray, 

 in his Manual of Botany, describes four of these bush 

 honeysuckles as natives of the North, and capable of doing 

 good service in many situations where especially hardy 

 plants are called for. These are L. ciliata, a bush of 

 from three to five feet high, which grows with spreading 

 branches, oblong or heart-shaped leaves, and has greenish- 

 yellow flowers in May. These are followed by red berries 

 which continue long on the branches, and constitute it 

 a really attractive plant for horticultural use in appro- 

 priate situations. It is a native of dense and rocky woods 

 from New Brunswick to Manitoba and still farther north- 

 ward. Another is L. ccBrulea, a smaller plant about two 

 feet in height, having upright stems and branches, oval 

 leaves downy when young but becoming glabrous later on, 

 and producing yellow blossoms in great abundance, also 

 in early spring. Its range is given as from Labrador to 

 Minnesota, and southward to Rhode Island. In this case 

 the fruit is purple and equally persistent. L involucrata 

 has oval or oblong foliage, yellow blossoms tinged with 

 red, and dark purple fruit. It makes its home in the deep 

 woods bordering Lake Superior and beyond. L. oblongi- 

 folia is a native of bogs and swamps of the same inhos- 



