This honeysuckle, by bearing red berries to attract migrating
birds in autumn, soon escaped the confines of gardens. Its undi-
gested seeds, dropped in the woodland far from the parent vine,
germinated quite as readily as in Europe, and pursued in peace
their natural mode of existence, until here too we now have
banks


‘* Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine.”
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Yellow and Orange


The Hairy Honeysuckle, or Rough Woodbine (L. hirsuta),
with a more northerly and westerly range, bears clusters of
flowers that are yellow on the outside, and orange within the
tube, the terminal clusters slightly elevated above a united pair of
dull green leaves that are softly hairy underneath. The slender
flower-tube is sticky outside to protect it from pilfering ants, and
the hairs at the base of the stamens serve to hide the nectar from
ules guests. Berries, bright orange. Flowering season, June
—July.
The deliciously fragrant Chinese or Japanese Honeysuckle (ZL.
Japonica), as commonly grown on garden trellises and fences
here as the morning-glory, has freely escaped from cultivation
from New York southward to West Virginia and North Carolina.
Everyone must be familiar with the pazrs of slender, tubular, two-
lipped, white or pinkish flowers, quickly turning yellow, which
are borne in the leaf axils along the sprays. The smooth, dark
green, opposite leaves, pale beneath, cling almost the entire year
through. The stem, in winding, follows the course taken by the
hands of a clock. Were the berries red instead of black, they
would, doubtless, have attracted more birds to disperse their
seeds, and the vine would have travelled as fast in its wild state
as the Italian honeysuckle has done. It blooms from June to
August, and sparingly again in autumn.
