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B. variabilis may be known by its coarsely serrate leaves, 

 white-cottony beneath, and by the glabrous corolla, which is lilac 

 with an orange-yellow mouth. Rare in California but grown 

 at Goleta and Hollywood. Hardy and a very desirable sort. 

 The var. Veitchiana is said to be superior even to the typical 

 form. (See Bot. Mag., pi. 7609.) 



The propagation of Buddleias is best carried out by the use 

 of cuttings. This is particularly important if it is desired to 

 exactly reproduce any special form. Such a case is a strain of 

 B. madagascariensis which has yellow tomentum and more flow- 

 ers than the ordinary sort, but does not come true to seed. 

 When trimmed back they branch freely and put out numerous 

 shoots. B. globosa is almost weed-like in this respect and sprouts 

 up even if cut back to the root. 



Acokanthera spectabilis Benth. 



WlNTERSWEET. 



A trim erect shrub of columnar habit, 4 to 6 ft. high, glabrous almost 

 throughout: leaves leathery, shining above, opposite or alternate, elliptic 

 or broadly lanceolate, very acute, short-stalked, entire, 3 or 4 in. long: 

 flowers jasmine-scented, white tinged with rose or suffused with pink, 

 in dense terminal and axillary clusters, withering-persistent: calyx short, 

 5-cleft: corolla minutely pubescent without, slenderly tubular, about 1 

 in. long, the limb parted into 5 lanceolate or ovate lobes: stamens and 

 style included: fruit berry-like, nearly black, the size of a plum. Syn- 

 onym: Toxicophlaea spectabilis. Family Apocynaceae. South Africa. 

 Illustration: Bot. Mag., pi. 6359. 



In this shrub we find a true aristocrat. It carries itself 

 with pride and dignity, and like many another exotic which, in 

 the eastern states, demands the solicitude of hot-house culture, 

 is easily grown in southern California as a yard-plant. 



Because of its moderate size and slender habit, the Winter- 

 sweet is eminently adapted to small yards and lawns. It can 

 be used to good effect in formal planting, either singly or in 

 rows. For this purpose it is much more effective than the 

 European Bay so often used. 



Commonly clothed with a rather dense foliage, it is found 

 that in some situations this shrub has a tendency to cast many 

 of its leaves. In this case the twiggy appearance may be rem- 



