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BUDDLEIA, "ISLE DE FRANCE" 



Differs from B. Davidi in that spikes are somewhat longer, and of dark 

 claret-purple flowers. Reported by some to be more top-hardy. Here, too, 

 is a plant which will benefit by being cut down to the ground each spring. 



Burningbush — See Evonymus europaea 

 Bushclover — See Lespedeza 

 Buttonbush — See Cephalanthus 



Buxus microphylla var. koreana 



A compact, broad-leaved, evergreen shrub from the Orient. With an 

 ultimate height of about two feet, this variety is reputed to be the hardiest of 

 the Boxes. As seen in cultivation in the North, it is less attractive than the 

 more tender European garden forms. 



Buxus sempervirens Box 



A traditional plant of European gardens which came to America as part of 

 the life and culture of the early settlers. A formal, slow-growing, evergreen 

 bush or small tree which has not proved generally satisfactory in New England 

 except in more temperate areas near the sea. It has persisted in the North 

 chiefly in the form, var. suffruticosa, much used as a small plant for edging beds. 

 For inland New England the Box has given way to various forms of the Yew. 



Gallicarpa dichotoma (C. purpurea) CHINESE BEAUTYBERRY 



A hardier, more widely distributed species than C. japonica, having smaller 

 fruits which are eaten by birds. 



CALLICARPA JAPONICA JAPANESE BEAUTYBERRY 



A "die-back" shrub which comes from the root each spring to form a round 

 bush up to some three feet in height and spread. Its chief garden value lies 

 in the late, small, pink or whitish flowers which are followed quickly and in 

 profusion by relatively large, showy, violet berries in late autumn after leaves 

 have fallen. Not a plant for positions of major importance. 



CALLUNA VULGARIS HEATHER 



An introduced plant of sentimental association which has the ability to 

 establish itself on moist, sandy or peaty, eastern soils. In nature it will, in 

 time, through habit and superficial winter injury, become a ragged, unkempt- 

 appearing plant some three feet in height. In gardens it may, however, be 

 kept in form by occasional cutting to the ground. Its garden value is brought 

 out only by mass planting either of a collection of clonal forms or of large 

 groups of identical forms. Heather seeds itself so freely that in massed plantings 

 individual specimens of clonal varieties will soon be crowded out unless vol- 

 unteer plants are promptly eradicated. 



In addition to the purple-flowered type, there are many garden forms, a 

 few of which are: Var. ALBA with white flowers; var. ALPORTII with 

 carmine flowers, erect and vigorous; var. CARNEA with pink flowers; var. 

 cuprea with yellow foliage which turns bronze; var. HAMMONDII with 

 white flowers; var. hirsuta with gray woolly foliage; var. nana, very dwarf in 

 habit and moss-like in aspect; var. RIGIDA, of somewhat coarser texture 

 and a tendency toward horizontal habit in main stems; var. rubra with rosy- 

 carmine flowers. 



Catophaca wolgarica BEAUTIFUL LENTIL 



A procumbent or flopping, deciduous shrub to three feet, which has grayish- 



