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produce such shoots will in a very short time be checked. It can then be pruned 
every winter as an ordinary shrub, taking care to remove straggling shoots in the 
summer when they appear. 
For trailing amongst rock-work, or over a rocky slope, Honeysuckles are 
exceedingly good ornaments. They have a natural propensity to trail ; and if the 
shoots are here and there plunged beneath a small mass of rock, or merely buried 
in the soil for a few inches of their length, they will thereby gain fresh vigour, 
and will not too much conceal the bolder outlines of the rockery. Pruning will 
be as useful in this case as in the others that we have mentioned ; for, by shortening 
the lateral shoots, they will be induced to grow in clusters, when the display of 
flowers will necessarily be more effective. 
Nothing would make a more beautiful bed or mass on a lawn, or in some 
retired part of a pleasure-garden, than a group of the late-flowering common 
Honeysuckle. It should be planted about eighteen inches or two feet apart, treated 
like a low shrub, as already described under that head, and, after the plants have 
gained some size and strength, a few of the more spreading shoots may be allowed 
to grow into the other plants, and thus an interwoven mass will speedily be 
created, which will simply require a little pruning and regulating each winter. 
What we mean by planting Honeysuckles amongst Ivy is, where Ivy is used 
for mantling a building, or a ruin, or rocks, or is permitted to overrun a small tree 
for the sake of picturesqueness, a few Honeysuckles, if trained up amidst it, would 
greatly improve and diversify its appearance. 
The practice of letting Honeysuckles mount the stems of trees in plantations is 
pursued already in some gardens. It deserves, however, to be more frequently 
followed. The trees chosen for the purpose should be principally round the out- 
side of shrubberies, because the Honeysuckle will flourish best where it can get air 
and light. A small number of trees may always be abandoned to such an object, 
even should the Honeysuckle strangle them, which it will not inevitably do. 
With care to keep the plants from being blown away from their support, they will 
not demand other attention. 
Every one who has visited old forests, or forest-like woods, must have been 
pleased with the aspect of Honeysuckles growing over bushes of Hawthorn, the 
common Sloe, &c., in such places. To obtain these features in the rougher portions 
of pleasure-grounds and parks, is surely worth attempting ; and this may be done 
by using bushes of the Hawthorn as supports for the Honeysuckle. By planting 
the latter at the bottom of Hawthorn bushes that are three or four feet in height, 
it will, if left to itself, give a character of the most picturesque beauty in three or 
four years. 
There is only one other method of treating the Honeysuckle which we shall at 
present specify, and that is the plan of training it to a standard of from four to 
six feet high. This is a mode to which we wish to afford some prominence, in 
connection with a very similar way of managing the common Ivy, which we 
