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Lonicero, or more properly Caprifolium. The Honeysuckle. 
This genus of flowering odoriferous climbing shrubs 
are principally natives of this country : they are all 
equally beautiful ; but where there is not space in 
our city gardens to cultivate the whole family, it is 
indispensable to have C.flexudsum, the Chinese sweet- 
scented or evergreen ; it blooms in May and Septem- 
ber, and is a very rapid grower. 0. Behjica is also a - 
charming species ; it blooms the whole summer, and 
is very odorous. Our native C. semperiircas, or 
Coral Honeysuckle, is not easily surpassed; its pro- 
fuse and brilliant scarlet flowers render it the most 
attractive object in all our country gardens. G. Japo- 
nicum is also an excellent Chinese species, with deli- 
cate orange-coloured flowers of agreeable sweetness; 
but will not bear our winters north of the southern 
part of Virginia. 
Passiflora, or Passion vine. There are several hardy species 
for this latitude; but the only very beautiful one is 
P. incarnata, which, although it dies to the ground 
every winter, yet will, during the summer, put forth 
shoots from twenty to forty feet long, all covered with 
a profusion of beautiful purple flowers. 
There are several other climbing plants, both curious and 
ornamental ; but our limits will not admit of farther detail. 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
Finish planting all deciduous shrubs in the early part of 
the month. These plants are generally delayed too long; 
the leaves in many instances are beginning to expand, thereby 
giving a check to the ascending sap, which we may safely 
assert causes the death of one-third, of the plants, when per- 
haps the operator or some individual more distantly concerned 
is blamed. 
These shrubs, if properly removed and planted at the exact 
starting of vegetation, pressing the earth close to their roots 
when planting (previously taking care that the small fibres 
have not become dry, by exposure), there will not one out of 
fifty fail by these simple attentions. Those that are late 
planted should have frequent w r aterings, and, if large, firmly 
