Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



Of course the individual flowers of the beautiful 

 spikes of B. variabilis are upon precisely this same 

 pattern, the colouring only differing, for there, while the 

 petal-tube is yellow the petal lobes are purple and the 

 stamens are greenish. And though in the one case 

 flowers are grouped into little balls and in the other 

 into very long spikes, yet the spikes are really made 

 up of little clusters of flowers set each upon a single, 

 short stalk along the main axis. In the autumn, as 

 November days are passing, the purple flower spikes 

 are replaced by great masses of little reddish fruits 

 tiny ruddy sausages. 



The family of the Buddleia is the Loganiacece, a 

 family unrepresented in the British flora. The poison- 

 ous Nux Vomica belongs to it. 



There are two varieties of B. variabilis, namely 

 "veitckiana" (placed among "novelties" in 1903 and 

 extensively planted since) and " magnified " ; both are 

 perfectly hardy, as befits a plant that is found on the 

 Chinese mountains 6,000 feet up. In both the colouring 

 is richer and deeper than in the type " variabilis" and 

 they are stronger growers. Their spikes are often two 

 feet long, " magnified " flowering a little later than 

 " veitckiana" and it is claimed that these new Buddleias 

 are the finest summer and autumn flowering shrubs that 

 have been introduced here for many years. 



There are several other Buddleias known in England, 



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