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B. thunbergi deserves special notice, for it is exceedingly effective 

 in spring with its numerous pale straw-coloured blooms suffused 

 with red, and again in the autumn there are very 

 few shrubs can vie with it in the colouration of 

 its foliage. All the varieties here named are 

 splendid market kinds. 



BUDDLEIA 



The best-known variety of this handsome shrub 

 is B. globosa, the golden ball. The blooms of this, 

 produced in trusses, are as spherical as an arbutus 

 berry and about the same size unique amongst 

 flowers. To call it an interesting flower is simply 

 banal, for it is not only so, it is highly ornamental. 

 Nothing could be more unlike than this, and the 

 other type, B. varidbilis and its varieties, and seen 

 apart from the trees and without foliage they would 

 not be taken as members of the same family, for B. 

 variabilis has large spikes of violet or lavender- 

 coloured flowers of the size of a large spiraea, sug- 

 gestive in other respects of a ceanothus. The 

 foliage of the buddleia is lanceolate and of a dark 

 sage-green, and when it is in bloom it has a US 



handsome and attractive appearance. It would 

 probably find its place among the dozen best 

 flowering shrubs we have. Propagation is from FlG - I 3- Ber - 

 cuttings, and it is not difficult to strike. Make the beris &*"**** 

 cuttings of firm wood, using the tops of the shoots, and insert in 

 sand under lights July-August. It is a very hardy shrub, and as 

 soon as rooted can be planted out into nursery beds. 



CERASUS (THE FLOWERING CHERRY) 



These take place among the almonds, prunus and other spring- 

 flowering trees of similar character as being the glory of the spring. 

 In all other respects like to an ordinary cherry, they have mostly 

 double flowers, but do not bear fruit. There are numerous varieties : 

 white, pink and red, and all are alike beautiful. Not only as stan* 



