LONI'CERA SEMPERVl'RENS. 
EVERGREEN OR TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Uncertain. 
12 feet. 
August. 
Shrub. 
in 1836. 
No. 928. 
This genus was named after Adam Lonicer. 
See No. 23. 
The plant which our drawing represents was 
received into the Liverpool Botanic Garden, as we 
are informed by Mi-. Shepherd, the curator, from 
the establishment of the Messrs. Booth of Ham- 
burgh, as a double variety of the Trumpet Honey- 
suckle, but it proved single only ; it is, however, 
distinct from that usually met with amongst us ; 
its flowers being larger, and it proves altogether 
a desirable addition to our twining shrubs. Al- 
though the Lonicera sempervirens is not, strictly 
speaking, an evergreen, it so nearly approaches it 
as to acquire additional value from this quality ; a 
quality which, by the bye, must compensate for a 
deficiency of the perfume met with in our own wild 
species, and so forcibly alluded to by the poet. 
“The woodbines mix in amorous play, 
And breathe their fragrant lives away.” 
This variety of Lonicera is perfectly hardy, still 
a wall should be chosen for training it against. 
Strong cuttings of the preceding year’s shoots, 
planted in spring, will quickly make root and grow. 
