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MY GROWING GARDEN 



known as they ought to be in this land of perva- 

 ding "Golden Glow" and hydrangea ''p. g.," as the 

 nurserymen abbreviate it. Ahelia grandifloray 

 sometimes A, rwpestrisy is a graceful shrub with 

 small, glossy leaves, almost evergreen in the South, 

 and holding until long after the first frosts in this 

 climate. If it had never a flower, it would be 

 better than privet, for instance; but it does have 

 flowers, and lovely they are. In refinement and 

 form they resemble the traiHng arbutus, or May- 

 flower; but unlike that shy and evanescent favorite, 

 these persist for most of the time from June to late 

 September. Their persistent dark red calyces are 

 in themselves ornamental, without the dainty 

 flower, and the whole combination is good. A 

 fairly open and sunny place seems to best suit 

 this abelia, which has not yet accumulated any 

 "common" names. In some locations it may freeze 

 to the ground in a very severe winter. This is 

 nothing to worry about, for the young shoots will 

 soon make a fine symmetrical bush, blooming 

 freely the same season. 



The other shrub is called "summer hehotrope," 

 "butterfly bush," and any other common name 

 that happens to ocdu* to the owner or the nursery- 

 man. Its real name is buddleia, which is bad 

 enough as far as it goes, with the worst yet to 



