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purple in colour. They should be pruned hard in spring. 

 Colvilei is a very handsome Himalayan shrub, with its 

 long racemes of red flowers, but it is not hardy, and 

 should be put against a wall. Buddleia globosa is the 

 Orange Ball Tree, so called owing to the form and colour 

 of the flowers. 



There are many special varieties of Box, forms of the 

 common species sempervirens, including silver variegated 

 (argentea), gold-marked (aurea maculata) and pendulous 

 (pendula). Of Japonica, which makes a small stiff bush 

 with round leaves, there is a very pretty silver variegated 

 form (argentea) and also a golden (aurea). Garden-lovers 

 on chalk know how useful the Boxes are. The common 

 edging Box is a form of Buxus sempervirens called 

 suffruticosa. 



The American Allspices, Calycanthus floridus and C. 

 praecox (syn. Chimonanthus fragrans), thrive best in 

 sheltered places. 



Camellias can be grown in the open in mild districts 

 in the northern latitudes ; and there they make beautiful 

 shrubs. C. sasanqua is an interesting species, suitable 

 for a wall. There are double white and pink varieties of 

 it, and there is a single red. They are evergreens. 



Carpenteria californica, with white scented flowers, is 

 a beautiful evergreen, but not hardy enough for exposed 

 places. 



The Ceanothuses are beautiful for wall or open, par- 

 ticularly the fine garden varieties, such as Gloire de 

 Plantieres and Gloire de Versailles, blue, and Marie 

 Simon, rose, which are evergreen, and flower profusely. 

 They never do better than when planted in the shelter of 

 a large hedge or building, for then they make abundance 

 of young wood annually, and produce beautiful plumes 

 of bloom for many weeks in succession. These sorts are 



