HONEYSUCKLE (M.E., lωny socle, i,e., any plant from which honey may be sucked,— cf. Ang.-Sax., huηi-suge, privet; Germ., Geissblatt', Fr., Chèvrefeuille), Lonicerus, L., a genus of climbing, erect, or prostrate shrubs, of the natural order Caprifo- liaceoe, so named after the German botanist Adam Lonicer. The British species are L. Periclymenum, the woodbine, L. Caprifolium, and L. Xy-losteτιm. Some of the garden varieties of the woodbine are very beautiful, and are held in high esteem for their delicious fragrance; even the wild plant, with its pale flowers, compensating for its sickly looks “with never - cloying odours.” The North American subevergreen L. semper- virens, with its fine heads of blossoms, commonly tailed the trumpet honeysuckle, is a distinct and beautiful species pro ducing both scarlet and yellow flowered varieties, and the Japanese L. brachypoda aureo-reticulata is esteemed for its charmingly variegated leaves. The fly honeysuckle, L. Xylosteum, a hardy shrub of dwarfish erect habit, and L. tatarica, of similar habit, both European, are amongst the oldest English garden shrubs, and bear axillary flowers of various colours, occurring two on a peduncle. There are numerous other species, many of them introduced to our gardens, and well worth cultivating in shrubberies or as climbers on walls and bowers, either for their beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms....