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ing on all sides to the lawn. One may have seen honeysuckle- 

 bushes a lifetime in shrubbery borders, or neglected in the grass, 

 without knowing how graceful an object it is when growing in rich 

 ground, quite alone, with the breadth and grace of its maturity. 

 The honeysuckle holds its leaves late in the fall, and occasionally 

 they are brightly colored before they drop. The berries in autumn 

 are yellow or pink, and ornamental. 



The White Tartarian Honeysuckle. L. t. alba. — This 

 variety is of stronger growth, than the preceding, becomes a higher- 

 bush, and may with care be made into a low tree. The flowers 

 and fruit are both white. The foliage is a little larger and paler 

 than the red tartarian, and the bush does not become so graceful 

 with age. 



The Pink-flowering Honeysuckle. L. t. grandifolia. — The: 

 most vigorous grower, and the most showy bloomer of the species. 

 In habit of growth it is more like the white-flowering honeysuckle,, 

 but attains still larger size, sometimes twelve to fifteen feet high,, 

 and may easily be grown as a tree if forced to one stem and allowed, 

 to branch near the ground. Flowers in May, bright red, striped 

 with white. Fruit red. 



The Autumn Honeysuckle. L. t. fragrantissima. — A low 

 and spreading variety four to six feet high. Flowers in October 

 and November, small, not abundant, but exceedingly fragrant. The 

 foliage is larger than that of most of the honeysuckles, of a deep 

 green color, and sub-evergreen. 



The Blue-berried Honeysuckle. Z. coerulea. — A small up- 

 right growing shrub, three to four feet high. Flowers greenish, 

 yellow, in June; inconspicuous ; berries blue. Foliage very abund- 

 ant and of a beautiful green. 



There are many other varieties, but not of such marked charac- 

 ter as to be interesting except in an arboretum. 



THE SYRINGA. Philadelphus. 



This old, vigorous, and graceful shrub is still one of the finest,, 

 grown singly or in masses ; and though surpassed in profusion of 



