pie) MY SHRUBS 
plant named after an old-time director of the King’s garden at Paris, 
is a Mexican of great beauty, exceedingly rare in cultivation. With 
a little nursing through winter, it thrives in favoured gardens, and 
no more splendid thing brightens an August day. If you can 
tell me where this may be secured, I shall thank you. At present 
I know of two pieces only, and neither belongs to me. There are 
many good garden hybrids; but B. triphylla is far finer than any 
of them. 
Bridgesia spicata has few friends, but I like this Chilian’s pale 
pink masses of inflorescence in March, when competition is not 
keen. It is quite hardy, makes a huge bush on a wall, and if you 
prefer to call it Ercilla, the Peruvian name, not a soul can blame you. 
The purple tassels and golden balls of Buddleia are familiar to 
every shrub lover, but a choice species, with delicate creamy 
racemes and most delicious fragrance, is B. astatica. ‘This proves 
quite a hardy Indian with me, and scents its corner of the garden 
from September to the frosts. It is a good thing, and so is B. 
paniculata—a plant with silvery foliage still seldom seen. Sir 
James Colville’s fine Buddleia, when well grown, makes a mag- 
nificent appearance with its cherry-coloured clusters of flowers 
and silver-green foliage. ‘This is perfectly hardy, and a valued 
friend owns perhaps the best piece in the West Country. ‘Twenty 
feet high it stands, and it was grown from seed that the owner 
himself collected in the Sikkim Himalaya. I thank him gratefully 
for my picture, which came from his famous compound. B. 
auriculata, a very recent arrival, I have as a gift from a kind 
professional ; but it proves to be B. asiatica over again. Herr 
Sander has some notable new rosy hybrids of B. variabilis. 
Buddleia, by the way, renders immortal the name of Adam 
