shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers
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columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers
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Honeysuckle \Hon"ey*suc`kle\, n. [Cf. AS. hunis[=u]ge privet. See {Honey}, and {Suck}.] (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus {Lonicera}; as, {Lonicera Caprifolium}, and {Lonicera Japonica}, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; {Lonicera Periclymenum}, the fragrant woodbine of England; {Lonicera grata}, the American woodbine, and {Lonicera sempervirens}, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is {Lonicera Xylosteum}; the American, {Lonicera ciliata}. The American Pinxter flower ({Azalea nudiflora}) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name {Australian honeysuckle} is applied to one or more trees of the genus {Banksia}. See {French honeysuckle}, under {French}.
I cannot prove it, but it seems highly likely that the winter honeysuckle was introduced into this area by Affleck.
In winter, there will be dogwoods in blazing red beside the lake and winter-scented honeysuckle and hellebores on the ruins of the old Norman castle.
"It doesn't need to have a lot of ground but it needs to have trailing vines, wisteria or honeysuckle, and definitely a magnolia tree if possible.
As you have guessed, I feel Fortune was acting for me in bringing back winter honeysuckle on his slow boat from China. This is one 19th-century Chinese plant introduction that comes down to gardeners 147 years later with its fragrantissima intact.
Furthermore, winter honeysuckle's axillary pairs of demure white flowers bloom on a bush that is evergreen in NYC.