170 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



cestor grew in the dooryard in the old homestead at 

 Valley Forge. A grandmother journeying, a young 

 wife, into what was then the wilderness of central 

 New York, brought with her to her new home a slip 

 of the burning bush, to keep alive, in the new home, 

 some familiar reminder of the old. In later years a 

 daughter, still following the lure of the trail as it 

 looked toward the setting sun, carried a younger scion 

 tf the far plains and woods of northern Indiana and 

 when my own mother, still following the westering 

 trail, made a new home for herself and little ones 

 in Michigan, an ofEshoot from the bush ia Indiana 

 was donated, and grows and bears its chocolate col- 

 ored flowers and ruddy berries as freely as in the 

 limestone soil of Chester County, Pennsylvania. 



Another most attractive shrub which may be easily 

 raised from spring sown seed is the Buddleia, a plant 

 with long racemes — in the newer forms over twenty 

 inches long — of violet mauve flowers of a delightful 

 violet fragrance. Spring sown seed will often pro- 

 duce flowering plants the first season and the second 

 will attain a height of three to five feet and be a 

 perfect bouquet of bloom throughout the summer. 

 The branches are somewhat pendulous and in the 

 young state are the better for a little support. They 

 afford delightful material for cut flower work and 

 the odor has that fugitive, elusive quality of the violet^ 



