Economy in the Purchase of Shrubbery^ 



the tree a most tropical effect. It is very easily- 

 transplanted and a few trees in a clump are very 

 effective or it is fine as a specimen tree and owing 

 to its abmidance of spines can be utilized effect- 

 ively as a hedge. Where only a single tree is 

 wanted it is easily kept in check by cutting out 

 the rhizomes with a spade close to the parent 

 plant. 



The euonymus, or burning bush as the In- 

 dians always called it, propagates itself by means 

 of its coral berries which appear in quantities in 

 late summer or early fall. One finds the volun- 

 teer plants appearing every spring in places 

 where one least expects them and one can lift and 

 transplant them wherever desired. 



Another most attractive shrub which may be 

 easily raised from seed sown in spring is the 

 Buddleya — a plant with long racemes — in the 

 newer form of B. veitchiaa, over twenty inches 

 long, of violet mauve flowers of a delightful violet 

 fragrance. Spring-sown seed will often produce 

 blossoming plants the first season which in the 

 second will attain a height of from three to five 



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