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ing cast winds. I said good-bye, in my heart, to Buddleia 

 Colvillei. But Buddleia Colvilki was not to be got rid 

 of. It grew all through that weather, as I have rarely 

 seen a plant grow ; and by autumn it was three feet 

 across, bushy and robust, and about two feet high. I 

 sheltered it with gorse as our last dreadful winter grew 

 on, but, so far as I can see, BuddMa Colvillei, though 

 cut back, seems inclined to break again, more vigorous 

 than ever, regardless of inclement seasons. When or 

 whether it will flower remains, of course, a diflerent 

 question. 



Now comes the last great race of deciduous shrubs (for 

 Azalea is to be lumped, nowadays, with Rhododendron) 

 for the rock-garden. The one crime of which all the 

 Magnolias except summer-blooming glauca are guilty, is 

 of flowering within reach of late frosts which reduce their 

 pure and waxy fragrance to a mass of brown feculent 

 rottenness. Otherwise they are all rivals in beauty and 

 charm. Glorious Yulan and its kin are perhaps too large 

 for small gardens ; even Kobus and Watsoni develop into 

 trees. But surely they are so delicious that every garden 

 must allow them room to the last possible moment. All 

 are easy, all are fragrant, all are magnificently, regally 

 beautiful. I grow Kohus, Watsoni, glauca, rustica rubra, 

 Yulan, obovata, hypoleuca (the great forest-Magnolia of 

 the Japanese Alps), utellata, trlpetala, and the very rare 

 salicifolia. Stellata, of course, is the jewel of jewels for 

 the rock-garden — quite a small, close slirub, three or four 

 feet in height, with myriads of pearly goblets that open 

 out into stars. Riistica rubra is a variety of uncertain 

 origin, akin to soulangeana, with big clialices of soft deep 

 rose. (Alas, that the supreme beauty of all. Magnolia 

 Campbelliae, is of no use over the greater part of England, 

 and even in favoured corners of Ireland and the south 

 only deigns to show its huge coralline cups occasionally. 



