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A LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNIALS 



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bloom are 12 inches 

 to 15 inches long and 

 3 inches in diameter. 

 The species was in- 

 troduced by Wilson 

 from China. The 

 plants although froz- 

 en to the ground 

 nearly every Winter, 

 will start up nicely 

 and grow 6 feet to 

 8 feet tall. The 

 minimum tempera- 

 ture which the roots 

 will stand seems to 

 be about 10 deg. be- 

 low zero. There are 

 several varieties but 

 B. V. var. magnifica, 

 which blooms from 

 June until October, 

 is the best form be- 

 cause of its superior 

 flowering habit. 



Uses. Buddleias 

 make excellent cut 

 ilowers. As a garden 

 subject they make attractive specimen plants. Besides . their charm- 

 ing^ color and fragrance, they are rightly named the Butterily bush, 

 because they are continually covered with handsome butterllies. 



Culture. Plant Buddleias in well drained soil, and they will 

 bloom the first year after planting. Many growers seem to believe 

 that protected plants freeze as readily as those given no covering ot 

 any sort. 



Propagation. The best method of propagation, if a greenhouse 

 is available, is to make cuttings in September and October and grow 

 them through the Winter in the greenhouse, in which case they will be 

 large blooming plants by Springtime. Outofdoors, the Buddleias 

 are readily propagated from young shoots rooted either in sand or water. 

 It is a bit difficult to get the young plants through the first Wmter m 

 the severer cUmates. 



Butterfly Bush or Buddleia. Superlative adjectives 

 only can describe this lilac flowering plant. A shrub 

 treated in the Northern States as a herbaceous plant- 



