118 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
But this passage, perhaps, we should not have quoted, be- 
cause of the grave question arising out of the distinction 
implied between the “woodbine ” and the “sweet honey- 
suckle.” However, we will meet the difficulty, because it 
is one of great interest. The explanation is that there is 
in English poetry more than one woodbine, but there is 
only one honeysuckle. The woodbine of Shakespeare was, 
in all probability, the convolvuius. Gifford pointed out 
the true meaning of the passage in his note upon a parallel 
passage in Ben Jonson :— 
“ Behold 
How the blue bindweed doth itself enfold 
With honeysuckle, and both these entwine 
Themselves with briony and jessamine.”’ 
Readers of the “divine bard”? may remember that a 
certain hostess (2 ‘King Henry IV.,” ii. 1) denounces the 
mighty Falstaff as a “honeysuckle villain” and a ‘“ honey- 
seed rogue,” by which, perhaps, we may understand that 
she thought his fair words and winning ways made him 
doubly dangerous as a creditor and a cheat. It is agreeable 
to turn from the theatrical weaver and the stout knight 
to the invitation of Hero in “ Much Ado about Nothing ”’ 
(iii. 1) to 
“Steal into the pleachéd bower, 
Where honeysuckles, ripen’d by the sun, 
Forbid the sun to enter; like favourites 
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride 
Against that power that bred it.” 
Now to turn from poetry to the garden itself. There 
are from eighty to a hundred species of Lonicera adapted 
for the English garden, but only half a dozen or so have 
hitherto obtained much attention. The peculiar “ per- 
foliate ” character of L. caprifolium is displayed in the illus- 
