IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



Buddlea globosa, the honey-ball tree of Japan, is very 

 handsome and distinct, every shoot producing golden balls 

 in May, whilst the silver-lined deep green foliage is ever- 

 green. But this plant must be well sheltered from the east 

 winds, which are apt to injure its young growths in spring. 

 If it obtains deep soil and a position near a west wall it wiJl 

 do well under these conditions, forming a large bush, which 

 is the resort of thousands of bees when the blossoms (which 

 are so full of honey as to scent the air with it) are expanding. 

 The viburnums (guelder rose) from Japan and China are 

 decorative, but not quite hardy, except in mild districts. 

 Our own native Viburnum lantana (the wayfaring tree) has 

 equally beautiful flowers, which are followed in the autumn 

 by handsome berries in red and black, the large leaves 

 turning bright crimson and yellow at the same time. V. 

 opulus sterile, too, is quite hardy, and enjoys a moist position 

 near water. 



A very beautiful new shrub is Xanthoceras sorbifolia, from 

 China, with finely-cut foliage like that of the mountain ash, 

 and long spikes of bloom (in white, with a purple eye) which 

 open early in the year, and therefore it should have a 

 sheltered position, although the plant is otherwise quite 

 hardy. Styrax obassia, which produces racemes of waxen 

 bloom, like snowdrops in shape, is a shrub from Japan, which 

 should also have a sheltered position. 



For a dry place (such as a sunny bank) with light soil, 

 where few shrubs will flourish, the sumachs (rhus) are most 

 useful, for they all are indifferent in the matter of nourish- 

 ment, throwing out roots many feet from their stems, which 

 form suckers abundantly. Rhus cotinoides is a rare 

 American variety of the more ordinary R. cotinus (the wig- 

 tree), which produces a mass of reddish fluffy hairs on its 

 glaucous leaves about 7 feet in height ; R. typhina (the 

 stag's-horn sumach) gives a glorious mass of carmine in the 

 autumn, when its leaves are about to fall ; and R. glabra 

 laciniata is a somewhat similar shrub, though not so tall. 



In a similar position there are few more handsome shrubs 

 than Cistus ladaniferus, an evergreen plant, producing 



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