LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS. 
SCARLET TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. 
NATURAL ORDER, CAPRIFOLIACEE. 
LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS, Aiton.—Leaves oblong, evergreen, the upper ones connate-perfoliate ; 
flowers in nearly naked apikes of rather distant whorls; corolla trumpet-shaped, nearly 
regular, ventricose above. Stem woody, twining in the same direction with the sun. The 
distinct leaves in the wild plant are elliptical or almost linear; the connate ones but one 
or two pairs. Corolla of a live scarlet without, and yellow within. (Wood’s Class-Book 
of Botany. See also Gray’s Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, and 
Chapman’s Flora of the Southern United States.) 
‘ ue NDER the names of Honeysuckle and Woodbine there 
ANZ are perhaps few families of plants better known through 
the works of the poets and other polite writers. All who refer 
to them have generally united in regarding them as emblems of 
affection, and any allusion to them in poetry is usually in con- 
nection with this sentiment. Joaquin Miller, in “First Love,” 
describing the memory of an early passion, says: 
‘She stands as she stood in the glorious Olden, 
Swinging her hat in her right hand dimpled; 
The other hand toys with a honeysuckle 
That has tip-toed up and is trying to kiss her.” 
But much of the poetry of the Honeysuckle refers to its aid in 
giving the cosy character to an English cottage, and to the 
adornment of arbors and bowers. In his advice to young 
damsels, not to believe too easily what every wooer tells 
them, Thomson, in his “Seasons,” says: 
“Nor in the bower, 
Where woodbines flaunt, and roses shed a couch, 
While evening draws her crimson curtains round 
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Trust your soft minutes with betraying man.” 
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