MY SHRUBS 71 
Lonicera Hildebrandti, an evergreen honeysuckle from Upper 
Burmah, makes the rest of this race look small, and its huge 
blossoms hang in splendid clusters amid the deep green leaves. 
The purple bud, three to four inches long, opens pure white, 
then turns cream colour and presently becomes orange yellow. 
Grown on the south wall of my house, and protected as far as 
possible at moments of undue cold, it prospers—one of the most 
striking climbers in any garden. I have but few other honey- 
suckles, including the very fragrant, pink, L. syringantha, a dainty 
climber in a small way, and another still more minute, but hardly 
less sweet, L. pileata—a Chinese evergreen shrub, that looks like 
a privet, but harbours clusters of little white trumpets in Spring 
and purple berries afterward. Of the common or garden honey- 
suckles Gauntlett’s grand L.“‘ Scarlet Trumpet” is to be specially 
commended, and, for the rest, you doubtless have your own 
favourites which you would not change for mine. 
Loropetalum chinense is another plant of the tribe of Witch 
Hazel. But the flowers are white and the shrub is evergreen. 
It seems delicate, and a light frost suffices to pinch it; yet it 
makes good growth in half shade, and, if prosperous, will bloom 
in a youthful state. The lax blossoms hanging beneath the little 
branches are a fair sight in spring. 
Lotus peliorhynchus, the Pigeon’s Beak, from Teneriffe, adds, 
with its grey foliage and scarlet blossoms, to the glory of Southern 
gardens, but is difficult in our rockeries. Indeed I have never 
seen it really prosperous out of doors, save in Cornwall, near 
Penzance, though there are inspired people elsewhere who declare 
it succeeds with them under the sky. My own experiments have 
failed. 
