AND THEIR CULTURE. 



round them ; but it is far less dangerous in this re- 

 spect than the ivy, as it neither strikes root in the 

 bark, nor excludes the air and retains the damp at 

 all seasons of the year, like the last-named plant. 

 In old woods it may be introduced with perfect safe- 

 ty, as the damage it occasions to a full grown tree is 

 scarce worth notice. It indeed prefers running on 

 the ground to ascending a tree of any considerable 

 girth ; for being strongly attracted by the sun, 

 though a twig of it placed on the north side, or 

 shaded side of a trunk, will inevitably make a cir- 

 cuit round, so far as may enable it to bask in the 

 noon-tide rays of that luminary, there is no charm 

 to excite it to a counter revolution, and none but 

 small stems, accordingly, of which the shaded part, 

 when the sun shines, is extremely narrow, are in 

 danger of suffering from the too close embraces of 

 the woodbine. Honeysuckle may be propagated 

 either from berries or slips. The latter should be a 

 foot long, and of the preceding year's growth. The 

 fittest season for planting them is the month of Fe- 

 bruary, and they must be inserted in the ground 

 deep enough to cover at least one joint. 



Some of these plants cannot, perhaps, in strict pro- 

 priety, be denominated underwood ; and I may be 

 blamed for introducing matter inconsistent with the 



