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DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
THE BUDDLEA. Buddlea. 
Some varieties of this Chilian shrub have been tried in open 
ground near New York, and the Buddlea Lindleyana is advertised 
by some of our leading nursery-men. The genus is not considered 
hardy in England, and is not likely to be in the northern States. 
The Globe-flowered Buddlea, B. globosa , in Chili, is a large 
spreading shrub, twelve to fifteen feet high, with small balls of 
bright yellow flowers and long lanceolate opposite leaves, growing 
at right angles with their twigs, to which they are attached. 
THE BUTTONWOOD. Cephalanthus. 
This is not our American plane tree, or sycamore, which is 
sometimes called the buttonwood tree, but a compact, glossy-leaved 
shrub, indigenous throughout the States on the borders of swamps 
and in wet shady places. For such places it is one of the best 
shrubs, forming a globular bush, well covered with thick glossy 
leaves. The flowers are yellowish-white, and appear in globular 
clusters, about one inch in diameter, in July and August. Height 
four to six feet. In dry sunny exposures the foliage is rusty, less 
abundant, and less glossy. 
THE BERBERRY. Berberis. 
A spreading, many-stemmed, deciduous prickly shrub; the 
habit of growth being much like that of a gooseberry bush. 
Height from four to ten feet. Leaves small, very glossy, obovate, 
serrate, with hairy edges ; flowers yellow; May and June. Berries 
red; ripe in September. Grown in England for its fruit. It is a 
long-lived shrub, and sometimes grows into a small tree. 
The Common Berberry. B. vulgaris .—When well grown, in 
a warm* soil, it forms a very pretty shrub. Its short racemes of 
small yellow flowers, in May, though not showy, are pretty. When 
