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40186. LONICERA DEFLEXICALYX. Honeysuckle. From
the director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England.  Strikingly
beautiful deciduous shrub, 8 to 10 feet high, of spreading habit.
Branchlets drooping.  Produces a great abundance of yellow twin
flowers, five-eighths of an inch long, in May and June, displayed to
good advantage on the upper side of the long feathery branches.
Fruits orange red. Native of China.

LONICERA JAACKII. Honeysuckle. A beautiful, rapid-
growing, flowering shrub, attaining a height of 10 feet, with spreading 
branches, ovate-elliptic leaves, in the axils of which are borne
clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers, white on first opening, rapidly
turning yellow.  Produces red berries in abundance.

37644. LONICERA RUPRECHTIANA. Honeysuckle. From
the director, Botanic Garden, Petrograd, Russia. Shrub (12 feet
high), with dark-green foliage and pure white flowers on long flower
stalks. Fruits red or yellow. Hybridizes easily with L. tatarica;
recommended to experimenters in the Northwest because of the
rarity of the pure species and its unusual hardiness.

35188. LONICERA THIBETICA. Honeysuckle.  From M.
Maurice L. de Vilmorm, Paris.  A handsome deciduous shrub of
low spreading habit when young, forming in the adult stage a dense
rounded mass of intertwined branches, 6 feet high and 10 feet through.
Leaves dark glossy green above, covered with a dense white felt
beneath.  In May and June a mass of lilac-colored fragrant flowers;
berries red; native of Tibet.

40185. LONICERA TRICHOSANTHA. Honeysuckle.  From
the director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England.  A deciduous
bush of vigorous growth and well-rounded, densely leafy habit, 8
feet or more high, the whole plant with a pale grayish aspect.
Leaves nearly oval, 1 to 2 inches long, dull gray green above, paler
below.  Flowers pale yellow, becoming darker, one-half to 
three-fourths of an inch long.  Berries red.  Native of China.

36748. LONICERA sp. Honeysuckle. From F. N. Meyer,
Hsiao Wutaishan, China.  A bush honeysuckle of large growth and
decidedly ornamental habits.  Leaves are large, dark green, and
set off beautifully the bright red berries borne in pairs on long, erect
peduncles.  This species is valuable as an ornamental shrub in the
cooler sections of the United States.
        