434 OUR WOODLAND TREES, 
leaf-stalk to the leaf apex, giving origin, at some- 
what wide intervals, on each side, to veins which 
proceed diagonally to the leaf-margin, and usually 
fork near their apices. 
The flowers consist of clusters—spreading out, 
and away from a central point of attachment—of 
long tubular corollas, larger at their upper than 
at their lower ends, and, when opened at the 
former, funnel-shaped. They are cream-coloured, 
full of honey, and deliciously perfumed. So 
temptingly honey-stocked are they that those 
insects unfurnished with long probosces for 
reaching into the funnel-shaped mouth, and down 
to the base of the corolla, where the honey is 
stored, pierce the corolla base, and thus extract 
the nectar. 
The Honeysuckle can easily be propagated by 
cuttings or by layers—both cuttings and layers 
being planted and made in the autumn. But, as 
in hedgebank and woodland there will always be 
found an abundance of young plants, the most 
certain, and withal, the best method of securing 
certain growth will be to get them thus rooted 
from their native habitats. Transplanted they 
