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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 MAACKII. Honeysuckle. A beautiful, rapid- 

 growing, flowering shrub, attaining a height of 10 feet, with spread- 

 ing 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 Vilmorin, 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. 



