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Show shining leaves. On the contrary, tho leaves are downy to the touch. Besides its strong growth, it makes it quickly. A plant set out but two years will make a good showing towards to-wards reaching tho top of a six-foot six-foot trollis, besides the lateral growth it will make. It has no rival ri-val among honeysuckles in this respect. re-spect. Although, perhaps, hardly as good an evergreen as the first named, us a fair one, and in mild winters, it keeps its foliage until spring. It is besides an abundant bloomer It is one week later in starting into bloom in the spring than the others, but it makes up for it in its continuance, and, like tho other two, it has an abundant secend crop, as it were, of flowers in September and October. In regard re-gard to the sweet scent of these three sorts, I have not been able to perceive that one has more than the others, though the popular belief accords to the Chinese the first place in this respect. But in the color of the flower, the la3t named is of a deeper pink in the bud, though creamy white whon expanded, ex-panded, as the others are. When planting honeysuckles, no matter what their size is, cut them down almost to the ground.- Ex. As we think the following worthy of consideration, we give it room. If we omit tho grape, which is planted for its fruit, as well as for its shade, there is no vine so generally gen-erally used as the honeysuckle. A home in this country is never complete com-plete without a porch. It is a place for quiet repose in Summer, where one can be under cover while still being in the open air. And where dwellings are near public roads, where strangers pass, a vine-clad porch is a necessity. There is privacy, pri-vacy, while still affording tho pleasure pleas-ure which a resting place outside of the houe affords on warm days of Summoj. Sometimes vines are set up to the posts at the corners ; at other times to wire netting, placed along the sides. For such a purpose there is no vine approaches ap-proaches the honeysuckle. While of slender growth it soon makes a thick mass, because the shoots are very numerous. There are perhaps a half dozen sorts of running honeysuckles, hon-eysuckles, besides as many more half shrubby ones, but for use about porches there are but three kinds generally used. These are the Japanese, Jap-anese, the Chinese and Hall's Japan. Ja-pan. While all three are good, each is distinct from the other, so that .different situations may be suited in the choice of one. The . Japanese forms a thick mat from tho start, go that it should be selected se-lected where a dense, thick crowth 1 rj is wanted from tho very ground. This dense character may suggest other usues for it as well as this. After getting thick and close at the base ,it throws out long, slender runners, which should be tied to the supports intended to give them a start. This sort never loses its dense habit, no matter what its oge is. The foliage is of a dark, shining green. In regard to its evergreen character it is the best of the three, the foliage keeping fresh all winter win-ter where they are a little sheltered. The Chinese is of an opposite character, or nearly so. It is not nearly so dense a grower, still it runs quickly, and because of its dark reddish looking leaves it is a good deal planted. Where a strong, rampant grower is looked for, set the Hall's J apan. It is tho strongest strong-est grower of all. Unlike the common com-mon Japanese one, this one has not |