CAPRIFOLIUM PUBESCENS. 
PUBESCENT HONEYSUCKLE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDBIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. | 
Introduced 
Canada. 
10 feet. 
May, June. 
Twin. shb. 
in 1822. 
No. 565. 
The name, Caprifolium, is compounded from the 
Latin capra, a goat, and folium, a leaf. The ap- 
plication of the name to the plant is metaphorical 
— goats are climbers, and so are honeysuckles. 
The common name, honeysuckle, probably origi- 
nated in the juvenile practice of sucking the honey 
from the corolla. Linneus when he established the 
genus Lonicera, divided it into sections, of which 
Jussieu made distinct genera. Caprifolium nearly 
represents Linneus’s first section of Lonicera, with 
flowers sessile, in terminating heads or whorls, and 
stems twining. 
Caprifolium pubescens is a very ornamental spe- 
cies, suitable for training to a wall, up trees, or 
spreading on a trellis ; in either of which situa- 
tions it may be advantageously displayed. Or if 
it be more desirable to have it growing indepen- 
dently of support, it may be cut back so as to form 
a dense bush, and under such treatment it will 
produce a profusion of flowers. 
It will be difficult for some of our readers to 
forget the delicious perfume of the wild honey- 
suckle. Climbing to the top of the smoothly cropped 
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