HARDY VINES AND CREEPERS. 
(continued.) 
Honeysuckles ( Lonicera.) 
The Honeysuckle family is divided into two classes, 
viz.: those of a climbing or twining character, or vines, 
and those of a shrubby character. The former alone 
are here referred to. The common Honeysuckle, or 
American Woodbine L. grata, from its elegant climbing- 
habit, the wild gracefulness with which it flings abroad 
its uppermost shoots, the prodigality of its cheerful 
blossoms and their luxurious fragrance, is a general 
favorite wherever it is known. It belongs to that in¬ 
teresting class of plants, scattered rather sparingly 
throughout the vegetable kingdom, which secure to 
themselves universal esteem, and are therefore culti¬ 
vated very extensively. Either this, then, or some of its 
varieties, or'other allied species, are cherished in almost 
every garden that will admit of them. 
In many parts of our country the wild Woodbine 
is found profusely adorning the fences by road-sides 
and along neglected lanes, where, during a large part 
of the summer, it cheers the passer-by, by its loveliness, 
and regales him, especially in the evening of the day. 
with its grateful odor. 
The many and varied speoies and varieties, possessed 
of such sterling charms, make them the most desirable 
vines for general cultivation; whether in the gardens of 
the rich or poor, and iu every variety of form which 
their natures will allow. As they are exceedingly 
accommodating with regard to treatment, it seems 
much to be regretted that, in most instances they are 
merely grown in those artificial circumstances where a 
wall or a trellis, or something equally formal, is afford¬ 
ed for training them over. When supported by a pole, so 
as to compose a pillar, they are delightful objects, 
though rarely witnessed; they may also be pruned to 
assume a dwarf bush form, thus making an ever-bloom¬ 
ing shrub, and a finer one is seldom seen. A still more 
appropriate place for them is a rocky bank, or trailed 
over rock-work. They are also appropriate and useful 
for planting at the base of trees, where they form en¬ 
tangled beds, or for growing amongst Ivy, or for cover¬ 
ing various bushes on the lawn, and in parks. Again, 
they form beautiful standards ; when pruned to a height 
of four or five feet they develop large drooping heads 
which almost sweep the lawn on which the specimen 
stands. For all these objects the Honeysuckles are 
peculiarly adapted, while this treatment, according to 
these several plans, would in itself give a great and de¬ 
lightful variety to a pleasure garden. 
Honeysuckles are not, as a rule, the best adapted for- 
covering walls; they are chiefly twining plants, and re¬ 
quire something to wind or cling around, and for such 
situations they would need constant pruning and 
tying to prevent the lower branches from becoming 
bare and to induce them to throw out laterals freely. 
They are much more appropriate for trellises of various 
descriptions, as they can be trained over them so as to 
have almost a natural appearance, and whether the 
trellis be in the form of an espalier, or an arch over a 
walk, or a covering to an arbor, or any small erection 
they will only need tying to it by some of the main 
branches, while the other shoots can be wreathed into 
the trellis. Here, as in the former case, much pruning 
will be wanted for a time, to get the plants into a good 
lateral and flower-bearing condition. 
Supporting Honeysuckles by poles is much superior 
to the method of sustaining by trellises, because more 
natural, and better calculated to show the plants to ad¬ 
vantage. Indeed, this is one of the best of all ways of 
managing them. The poles may be from six to ten feet 
high, and either single or in threes joined together at 
the top. Perhaps the single poles are the most beauti¬ 
ful. A specimen, planted at the base of one of those, 
may be tied to it, or suffered to twine around it; and as 
it rises the leading shoots should now and then be 
stopped in order to force them into lateral growth, for 
the main beauty of a plant of this kind consists in hav¬ 
ing the entire pole clothed with branches and blossoms; 
if the former are obtained, the latter are nearly sure to 
follow. f 
Pruned so as to make a dwarf-border shrub, the 
Honeysuckle will add a very agreeable feature to the 
shrubbery border. It has only to be efficiently cut 
down while young and it will soon acquire the habit of 
making nothing but short blooming shoots ; or, should 
it occasionally send out a long rambling branch, such 
as it usually climbs with, this must be cut off at once, 
and its disposition to produce such shoots will, in a very 
short time, be checked. It can then be pruned every 
winter as an ordinary shrub, taking care to remove 
straggling shoots in the summer when they appear. 
For trailing amongst rock-work; or over a rocky 
slope, Honeysuckles are exceedingly good ornaments. 
They have a natural propensity to trail, and if the 
shoots are here and there plunged beneath a small 
mass of rock, or merely buried in the soil for a few 
inches of their length, they will thereby gain fresh 
vigor, and will not too much conceal the bolder outlines 
of the rockery. Pruning will be as useful in this case 
as in the others we have mentioned, for, by shortening 
the lateral shoots, they will be induced to grow in clus¬ 
ters, when the display of flowers will necessarily be 
more effective. In any position in which the Honey¬ 
suckle may be placed it is sure to become a pleasing ob¬ 
ject, with but little cax-e and attention; less, indeed, 
than is required for almost any other plant. These 
most cherished vines have been gathered from all parts 
of the world, and the species hybridized and improved 
until their beautiful varieties are so numerous that, 
like the Roses, they are almost innumerable, and a des¬ 
cription of them would fill a small volume. We shall 
mention a few, only, of the best varieties. 
L. sempervirens. Trumpet Honeysuckle. This spe¬ 
cies is indigenous in New York, to Virginia and south¬ 
ward. It is an Evergreen, and of it there are several 
varieties which constitute one of the handsomest spe¬ 
cies in cultivation, bearing its scarlet, inodorous flowers 
in great profusion for a considerable period in summer. 
The leaves are quite glabrous, oblong or rotundate, 
glaucous beneath, and persistent during the greater 
