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ing on all sides to the lawn. One may have seen honeysuckle 
bushes a lifetime in shrubbery borders, or neglected in the grass, 
without knowing how graceful an object it is when growing in rich 
ground, quite alone, with the breadth and grace of its maturity. 
The honeysuckle holds its leaves late in the fall, and occasionally 
they are brightly colored before they drop. The berries in autumn 
are yellow or pink, and ornamental. 
The White Tartarian Honeysuckle. Z. t alba . — This 
variety is of stronger growth than the preceding, becomes a higher 
bush, and may with care be made into a low tree. The flowers 
and fruit are both white. The foliage is a little larger and paler 
than the red tartarian, and the bush does not become so graceful 
with age. 
The Pink-flowering Honeysuckle. L. t. grandifolia. — The 
most vigorous grower, and the most showy bloomer of the species. 
In habit of growth it is more like the white-flowering honeysuckle, 
but attains still larger size, sometimes twelve to fifteen feet high, 
and may easily be grown as a tree if forced to one stem and allowed 
to branch near the ground. Flowers in May, bright red, striped 
with white. Fruit red. 
The Autumn Honeysuckle. Z. t. fragrantissima.—K low 
and spreading variety four to six feet high. Flowers in October 
and November, small, not abundant, but exceedingly fragrant. The 
foliage is larger than that of most of the honeysuckles, of a deep 
green color, and sub-evergreen. 
The Blue-berried Honeysuckle. Z. coeriilea . — A small up- 
right growing shrub, three to four feet high. Flowers greenish 
yellow, in June; inconspicuous ; berries blue. Foliage very abund- 
ant and of a beautiful green. 
There are many other varieties, but not of such marked charac- 
"^ter as to be interesting except in an arboretum. 
THE SYRINGA. Philadelphus. 
This old, vigorous, and graceful shrub is still one of the finest, 
grown singly of in masses j and though suq^assed in profusion of 
