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The Late Red Honeysuckle, L. p. serotinum, is simply a late 

 variety with darker flowers, and very showy during its blooming. 



The Dutch 'Honeysuckle, L. p. helgicum, differs from the 

 first only in being more shrubby. 



The Yellow-flowered Honeysuckle, P. flava, is a native 

 of our States, half hardy, with large ovate leaves nearly joined at 

 the base, and bright yellow flowers in June and July. 



The Trumpet Honeysuckles. L. sempervirens. — Indigenous, 

 and sub-evergreen at the south. Flowers scarlet, and borne 

 throughout the summer season after May. The H. s. superba and 

 H. s. Browni are superior varieties. 



The Chinese or Japan Monthly Honeysuckles. L. japon- 

 ica. — Sub-evergreen, and not quite hardy ; but of robust growth, 

 densely clothed with leaves, constantly in bloom and deliciously 

 fragrant, and of course universally popular. Protection is so easily 

 given them that their slight unhardiness is a small objection to their 

 use. The varieties are very numerous. Among them is the Gold- 

 veined-leaved sort, L.j. folks aurea reticulata, the leaves of which 

 are exquisitely veined with gold lines, each leaf as pretty as a 

 blossom, making it one of the most interesting to plant in porches 

 or verandas among the darker leaved sorts. A moderate grower. 



The Evergreen Ivy. Hedera. 



" Creeping where np light is seen, 

 A rare old plant is the ivy green." 



" The common evergreen ivy is a rooting climber ; but when 

 these roots are opposed by a hard substance which they cannot 

 penetrate, they dilate and attach themselves to it, by close pres- 

 sure on the rough particles of its surface." Unless, however, 

 the surface presents some crevices into which roots can penetrate 

 a little, the plant cannot sustain itself on a wall by the mere 

 adhesion of its root-mouths against it ; in other words, it cannot 

 sustain itself on a hard and smooth stone surface. In this respect 

 it is neither stronger nor weaker than our Virginia creeper. The 

 evergreen ivy can hardly be said to have become domesticated 

 in this country. Our summers are too hot and dry, and our 

 winters too cold for it; and it rarely clothes lofty walls with 



