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Honeysuckle, 
Lonicera pericpmenum, Narurar Orver: Caprifoliacee —Honeysuckle Family. 
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the numerous varieties of this beautiful climbing shrub, the 
one called periclymenum, or Woodbine, is perhaps the most 
common. The name is ‘derived from the German naturalist 
Adam Lonicer, or Lonitzer. Its delicate flowers are so laden 
with sweets that they attract that little opalescent jewel of a 
humming-bird more frequently from his hiding-place than any 
other blossom, over which it floats like the spirit of another and more 
gorgeous flower. For a number of years there have been several 
‘2 the Lonicera Japonica, a tribute from China, has yellow blossoms; and 
C. / ©) able to vie with either is our own Coral Honeysuckle — bright, brilliant 
and fragrant. 
Bonds of Frog. 
HOSE heart is at rest, he alone is a lover: 
The winters shall change not, the storms leave unshaken, 
Whose love shall endure, though all blossoms be taken, 
Whose love shall endure when earth’s durance is over, 
Whose love shall enfold, though the world have forsaken. 
—Edward Ellis. 
EE the honeysuckle twine ECAUSE of this, ma belle, 
Round this casement;—’tis a shrine Thou knowest how richly well 
Where the heart doth incense give, My worship till death’s ending serves and sues thee. — 
Aud the pure affections live Thou knowest, because of this, 
In the mother’s gentle breast To have thee means all bliss, 
All anguish were to miss, to mourn, to lose thee! 
By her smiling infant press’d. 
—Edgar Fawcett. 
—Countess of Blessington. 
TILL I'm thy captive, yet my thoughts are free; 
To be love’s bondsman is true liberty. 
—Marston, 
7 HE humming-bird, with busy wing, Above the trumpet-blossom floats, 
In rainbow beauty moves, And sips the tube he loves. 
i —Caroline Gilman. “\ 
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