April, 1915 
THE GAR I) E N M A G A Z I N E 
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Buddleia Farquhari is a hybrid between asiatica and 
officinalis, having very pale lilac mauve, fragrant flowers. 
Panicles about twelve inches long. A greenhouse plant 
are rooted the treatment is simple and 
young plants should be treated as Bud- 
dleia asiatica, but do not stop as freely; 
owing to the slow growing nature of the 
plant it will not branch out so quickly nor 
so vigorously. 
The newest of all the buddleias is a 
hybrid, the result of crossing the two 
preceding — that is, asiatica and officinalis. 
This newcomer, raised by R. & J. Farquhar 
& Co., has only been seen this season and 
is fairly intermediate between the two par- 
ents, the panicles being about a foot in 
length and the individual flowers a very 
delicate pale mauve with the typical char- 
acteristic sweet fragrance of asiatica. This 
newcomer (B. Farquhari) raised from two 
tender species, is also a greenhouse subject 
flowering in winter, but in the warmer parts 
of the country, the roots should at least 
prove hardy. This new plant is the 
first authentic hybrid in the genus. 
One other buddleia worth mentioning 
at this time is the old time B. globosa, 
attaining a height of twenty feet. This is a 
native of South America and makes a 
shrubby growth, withstanding a few de- 
grees of frost. But its uncertainty has 
handicapped it for general cultivation in 
gardens. 
For the cultural information embodied 
in the above remarks, I am indebted to 
Mr. S. R. Candler, who has had special 
opportunities for experiment and obser- 
vation. 
Buddleia Davidii, “summer lilac”, is valuable for its lilac- 
violet flowers from August onward. It is known in many 
varieties as magnifica, variabilis, Veitchii, etc. 
What Shall We Do With the Shady Strip? 
By Gladys Hyatt Sinclair, 
A PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF AN EVER PRESENT PROBLEM AND 
ONE THAT PROVIDES BLOOM THROUGHOUT THE SEASON 
T HIS is one of the most puzzling 
questions to be answered in a 
small garden. On big places 
evergreens solve the problem and 
leave plenty of south, east, and west ex- 
posures for flowers that bloom. But the 
excellent rule, “Fill shady places with 
broad-leaved evergreens and do not try 
to make plants bloom in shade,” is not 
applicable on small places where the north 
side of hedge or building often stretches 
itself provokingly just outside the living 
room or before an invalid’s windows, where 
brightness and variety are most wanted. 
A close study of the whole list of hardy 
shade-loving plants shows that the few 
pink or red ones are mostly of the com- 
moner kinds; but many really beautiful 
sorts run through yellows, blues, and whites. 
This is most fortunate for nothing glows in 
shadow like yellow, from lemon through 
gold to orange, and the cool blue tints are 
exactly the contrast needed. 
Such a border, to be effective, must bloom 
from May until October. Five feet is a 
good width, though this will be governed 
by circumstances. At the back of the 
border set clumps of tall white foxglove 
near the ends, where they will get strong 
light if no sunshine. The delicate blue 
anchusa, Dropmore variety, five feet high, 
will go with them and beside that the 
rarely seen yellow form of monkshood 
(Aconitum Lycoctonum). The darkest blue 
monkshood, Spark’s variety, will stand 
here too, with Spiraea Aruncus, Lilium 
speciosum album, and the lemon yellow 
day lily, Hemerocallis fiava. Among the 
lilies plant ferns, both tall and low-growing. 
The next two feet in width will hold blue 
Canterbury bells in front of the white 
foxglove; columbines in yellow, white and 
blue; Anemone japonica, var., Whirlwind, 
for October beauty; splashes of the hardy 
larkspur Belladonna, which most amiably 
displays its sky-tinted blooms in shade all 
summer; and meadow sweet (Spiraea 
ulmaria fl. pi.) with fleecy white panicles, a 
perfect foil for Belladonna’s blue. At this 
height the keynote will be trollius, the 
brightest thing that grows in shade. The 
rest of the plants may be grouped; anchusa 
and trollius, being the blue and the yellow 
of longest blooming time, should be carried 
right through the border. 
Funkia subcordata is a most beautiful 
old favorite as to the form and color of its 
foliage, and its waxen lilies are the only 
things in this world that the word “im- 
maculate” was coined to fit. Its trim, 
formal growth makes it conspicuous all 
summer; set it where you want an “ac- 
cent,” as at the corners of the border, 
where you want attention carried to a fine 
arrangement of lilies and ferns, or to finish 
the foreground of a little picture painted 
with anchusa and spirea. 
With the edging plants use freely the 
white and yellow tuberous begonia. They 
are not hardy, of course, but are easily 
set every spring. “Violets for spring’s 
adornment,” lily-of-the-valley among them, 
forget-me-nots, pansies and hardy prim- 
roses will all thrive lustily in the front rows 
of the shady border, which I hope will not 
be rows at all, but groups of the medium 
heights swinging out toward the edge with 
tongues of edgers running in, the spaces 
