SUMMER-FLOWERING HARDY VINES 113 
separately where good yellow colour is desired, 
the best vine is the golden Japan honeysuckle 
(Lonicera Japonica var. reticulata). Beside being 
a grand foliage plant, it has very attractive flowers. 
They fade from yellow to white. A form of this 
plant which is a grand ground cover — but not 
among shrubs, as it will climb them — is the 
dwarf golden Japan honeysuckle (L. Japonica var. 
flexuosa). This plant has a bad habit of rooting 
too readily when a shoot touches the ground. In 
this manner it travels all over and in some cases 
becomes a nuisance. 
For covering old stumps and bowlders, the 
Belgian honeysuckle (L. Periclymenum Belgica) 
will please the most critical; it is a dwarf 
grower, becoming somewhat bushy, and its long, 
drooping spikes of fragrant, red flowers, which 
are borne in profusion all summer, add colour 
to any situation. For a situation that demands 
winter foliage as a screen, and where flowers 
would lend attractiveness to the spot in summer, 
the vine that stands out most prominently is 
the evergreen honeysuckle (L. Japonica Halliana). 
The small, dark-green foliage of this vine would 
warrant its use even if it never flowered; but it 
does. Fall finds it with long, drooping spikes 
of pale-yellow and white flowers, and their perfume 
