THE BUDDLEIA. 89 



SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. 



Flowering Shrubs Yuccas Memorial Trees Ranunculus 

 Pansies Canna Indica Summer Flowers Bluets Fruit- 

 blossoms and Bees Strawberry Leaves Garden Sounds 

 Mowing Birds The Swallow Pleasures of a Garden. 



ALMOST more interesting than herbaceous plants 

 are the flowering shrubs. Most beautiful of all, 

 if, indeed, it may be called a shrub, is the Buddleia 

 Globosa, in the inner garden, which I have already 

 mentioned. When June draws to its close, it is 

 laden with thousands of blossoms like little golden 

 oranges, and fills the air with honied scent. It is 

 the largest Buddleia I ever happen to have seen, 

 for it stands sixteen feet high, and stretches its 

 branches over a round bed of blue Iris to a circum- 

 ference of seventy feet. 



And just about the time when the Buddleia is 

 in bloom, masses of the sweet homely English 

 Elder, screening off the little wood, will perfume 

 all the approach to the house. Common enough 



