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branches which take root in one year, and may then be separated 

 from the parent stock and planted where they are to remain. 

 Tyas says, that it may also be propagated by cuttings, which 

 ought to be planted in the early part of autumn, and the earth 

 covered with sand, ashes, or saw-dust, to keep the frost from 

 entering the ground. 



The Honeysuckle, 



The Woodbine, as this is generally called in poetry, is an 

 ornamental deciduous climber, bearing a shaded yellow flower 

 from May to July, and is celebrated for the delightful fragrance 

 with which it fills the air, in the evenings after rain, the refresh- 

 ing it receives causing it to put forth unusual energy. It belongs 

 to the natural order, Caprifoliaceae, and artificial class, Pentan- 

 dria; order Monogynia. The Loxicera Periclymenum — 

 Honeysuckle, takes its generic name from Lonicer, a physician 

 and naturalist, who lived about the middle of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. Its characters are, — calyx five-toothed ; corol tubular, long, 

 five-cleft, unequal ; stamens protruded out of the corols ; stigmas 

 globose; berry two or three-celled, distinct ; seeds many. It ha3 

 another name, Caprifolium (which species in reality differs from 

 this, in having two lips, or unequal), from the two Lalin words 

 a goat and a leaf — because those animals are said to be re- 

 markably fond of it. The specific name is from the Greek, to 

 roll round about. It has a woody, shrubby, turning stem ; the 

 branches from it nearly opposite, round and smooth. The leaves 

 also opposed to each other, on very short foot-stalks, elliptical, 

 entire, sometimes hairy and whitish beneath. The flowers are 

 in a terminal head, spreading out in a radiate manner. It bears 

 red berries, crowned with a five-tootlied cup, bitter, and of a 

 sweetish flavor. There is a curious variety, with sinuated, varie- 

 gated leaves, called the Oak-leaved Honeysuckle. It is princi- 

 pally on the Oak tree that this flower delights to climb, adorning 

 the King of the Forest with its bright crowns and beautiful fes- 

 toons of perfumed garlands. And, as Phillips says, it seems 

 peculiarly fitted for just such an ornament. In the wilderness 



