FLOWERING SHRUBS 
showy and clustered in loose terminal heads; the tube is very 
slender, and the segments of the corolla are narrowly pointed. 
This shrub seems to accommodate itself to circumstances, 
as it does not attempt to climb when transplanted to open 
ground, but forms a compact bush. 
The abundance of its pale red and yellow flowers, in light 
graceful clusters and bluish-green foliage, make it a pretty 
ornament to the garden, to which it takes kindly when trans- 
planted; the only disadvantages are the evanescence of its 
blossoms and its brief flowering season. The berries, how- 
ever, are abundant, and are of a pretty light reddish-orange 
color. 
Hairy YELLOW-FLOWERED HONEYSUCKLE—Lonicera hirsuta 
(Eaton). 
This is a large, robust species; the leaves are large, ovate, 
and downy underneath, the upper pair perfoliate, forming 
a boat-shaped involucre to the large hairy honey-colored 
clusters of flowers, which are terminal. The stem of this 
rather handsome but coarse species is woody, branching and 
slightly twining; the hairy yellow trumpet-shaped flowers 
exude a clammy sweet dew, which attracts numbers of flies 
which hover about them with those honey-loving vagrants 
the Humming-birds. This species is chiefly found in open 
copses and on rocky islands. There are several other native 
Honeysuckles. 
Closely allied to the Loniceras is a pretty flowering shrub 
known as 
FALsE HONEYSUCKLE—Diervilla trifida (Meench). 
This shrub is often found on upturned roots in the forest, 
but it also flourishes in more airy situations, as the edge of 
open, cleared ground, in the corners of rail fences, where it 
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