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winter. The growth of the seedlings is somewhat slow : 

 these will furnish stocks for grafting and budding, as 

 well as plants for forming hedges. A holly hedge is so 

 effectual, durable, handsome, and hardy, that though it 

 requires great patience to form, repays all the care that 

 is bestowed on it. The young plants from a nursery 

 (carefully lifted, without injuring their roots) should be 

 planted in October, attentively watered and weeded for 

 the first few years, and kept clear of everything that 

 can overshadow or choke them. The Broad-leaved Holly, 

 I. latifolia, a hardy evergreen from Japan, is propagated 

 by grafting on the common Holly, as is also I. opaca, and 

 several others. Admirers of the genus will find a tole- 

 rably long list of species, some of which must pass the 

 winter in a greenhouse. 



Honey suclde — Lonicera. — Charming sweet-scented 

 climbers and erect shrubs, which are almost all hardy with 

 us. They have also the advantage of leafing early. They 

 thrive in a sound, deep, light loam, with a half-shady 

 exposure, and are consequently nseful for covering walls 

 and trellises that face the east or the west, even with a 

 few points to the north. They are readily increased by 

 seed from their berries, by cuttings, layers, and rooted 

 suckers. The erect Loniceras will serve for hedges where 

 great strength of fencing is not required. They are L. Tctr- 

 tarica, Tartarian H. ; L. Pyrenaica, Pyrenean H., a 

 pretty shrub, but more infested with aphides than the 

 others ; L. Alpigena, with pink flowers, and berries as big 

 as little cherries ; L. Iherica, resembling the former, but 

 with pubescent leaves ; L. Xylosieum, the Ply Honey- 

 suckle ; L. bracJiypoda, with twin odoriferous flowers, a 

 greenhouse plant; and L. Ledebourii, from the Altai, 

 hardy, with orange flowers and black berries. Climbing 

 species are L. Caprifolium, the Common Honeysuckle ; 

 L. Utrusca, a favourite with gardeners, as being almost a 

 perpetual bloomer ; L. implexa, from Majorca and Mi- 

 norca, with slenderer stems and of humbler growth ; L. 

 parviflora, Little-flowered H., from Canada ; L. flava, 

 Yellow-flowered H. ? from JN". America, delicate and rare ; 



