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something 
going under a 
wrong name. 
Not only are 
Viburnums 
good flowering 
shrubs of great 
popularity, but 
some as V. Sie- 
bol dii, cotini- 
folium, cassi- 
n o i d e s , etc., 
bear showy 
fruit. The na- 
tive species 
sometimes be- 
coming arbor- 
escent are V. 
o p u 1 u s , V. 
LONICERA JAPONICA HALLIANA. deiltatum V 
— Gardening. T , , 
& Lentago, a n d 
sometimes varieties of nudum and prunifolium. 
Symphoricarpus are the “snow-berries,” ‘‘In- 
dian currants,” etc., in six or seven species, 
and several varieties. They are North 
American and Mexican. 
Abelia has ten species in China, Japan, 
the Western Himalayas, and Mexico. They 
are small shrubs of a sub-evergreen charac- 
ter. A. Chinensis (sold as rupestris) is quite 
hardy under trees in central New Jersey and 
continues full of its pretty little flowers 
until frost. A. triflora is the Himalayan 
kind, A. floribunda the Mexican one. 
Linncea is a pretty little fragrant mono- 
typic evergreen found in all northern 
regions. Linnaeus accepted it as typifying 
his neglected career. It grows well in shady 
places in sphagnum moss. 
Lonicera, “woodbine” and “honey- 
suckle,” have ioo species distributed over 
the temperate regions and tropical moun- 
tains of the NorthernHemisphere. The southernmost 
kinds are evergreen, but if hardy at Northern points, 
they loose their foliage after the first severe frosts. 
Both the climbing and shrubby kinds are well known 
favorites. The European L. Periclymenum and its 
varieties are deliciously fragrant climbers, butsingu- 
larly subject to the attacks of Aphides. L.Japonica 
in its varieties are more generally seen at the north, 
and in fact the type form, is abundantly naturalized 
along the Delaware Valley. L. Japonica aurea-re- 
ticulata besides being a good climber is often em- 
ployed as an edging plant for flower-beds. L. 
sempervirens and its varieties are not seen in per- 
fection as often as they deserve; they are often 
starved and neglected; this species has flowers vai y- 
ing in color from scarlet to yellow. L. flava with 
fragrant flowers in a capitate cluster, not separated 
into whorls — is described as distinct, and only found 
wild (it is said) in two or three localities on the 
mountains of South Carolina and Georgia — although 
a similar species has been reported in California, 
and the 6th ed. of Gray’s manual seems to indicate 
that it is synonymous with L. Suilivantii. Wood- 
bines are the better of a pruning knife sometimes, 
and if cut back after the early flowering will often 
flower well in autumn. 
The “bush honey-suckles” are in 40 or 50 culti- 
vated forms. Their flowers are often delightfully 
fragrant and vary in color from white to yellow, 
pink, and red in various shades. Their fruits too 
vary in color and during late summer L. Tartarica 
vars. , and such hybrids as Bella are quite showy. 
Morrowii, Alberti and others are quite pretty when 
in flower, and such kinds should be selected from 
the nurseries, for several have but little to recom- 
mend them, and are decidedly monotonous in ex- 
pression when out of flower and fruit. Anyone hav- 
lonicera morrowii. — Gardening. 
ing these poor kinds had best plant the better climb- 
ing kinds near them to overrun them. Indeed in 
planting a group it is well to plant with that very 
purpose in view — because a shrub is a more nat- 
ural and pleasing support for a climber than any 
artificial gimcrack. 
Leycesteria has 1 or 2 species from the Hima- 
laya and Khasya mountains. L. formosa and its 
variegated form are well worth growing and fairly 
hardy in the Middle States. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
There will be important exhibits by the govern- 
ment at Omaha this summer, relating to Botany, 
Forestry, and kindred subjects. 
