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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Beans— continued. 
not being otherwise cropped. In dry seasons and on 
light soils, there is an advantage attached to this method, 
namely, that those on sticks are liable to injury from 
drought, while the foliage of those pinched back keeps 
the soil moist underneath. 
Fic. 213. RUNNER OR CLIMBING KIDNEY BEAN 
(PHASEOLUS MULTIFLORUS), 
Runner Beans may also be planted to cover arches or 
fences, and in various places of a like description. See 
Fig. 213. 
Sorts. Common Scarlet Runner, Champion, Painted 
Lady, and Giant White. The first two are those gene- 
rally grown. 
BEAN-TREE. See Ceratonia Siliqua. 
BEARBERRY, and BEAR'S GRAPE. ? 
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, z aia 
BEARS BREECH. see Acanthus. 
BEAR’S FOOT. See Helleborus fæœtidus. 
; BEATONIA. See Tigridia. 
3 (a commemorative name). ORD. 
: eas, A small genus of curious seats plants, 
noe Mexico. ue Leaves narrow, gracefully depending. 
tems slender, woody, with a peculiar swollen, some- 
base. Mr. B. S. Williams recommends 
with ample drain a iar sy $ 
when obtainable; but chiefly by seeds which hare ee 
imported from their native country. Beaucarneas are 
principally grown for the beauty of their foliage, and are 
onc, graceful, and extremely curious in habit and 
 B. glauca (grey).* 7. pendent, 0 
: Ppr the swollen a ree ea sooi AR One aa 
&. latifolia (broad-leaved) differs from ty nly ; 
stouter and more robust stem and broader avec = : ee 
B. dent, daek ae long-leaved).* Z. 6ft. to 10ft. long, narrow, 
a beautiful vase-like centre, — ern 
(Q. C. 1871, vii, 493) a 
Beaucarnea—continued. 
B. recurvata (recurved-leaved).* l so long, linear, gracefully 
pendulous, bright green. Mexico, about 1845. ‘This is an excellent 
subject for open-air culture during the summer, as well as for the 
conservatory. SYN. Pincenictitia tuberculata. (G. C. 1870, 1445.) 
B. r. rubra (red). Z. red at base. 
B. stricta (upright). l. 3ft. or more long, less than lin. broad, 
very glaucous. Stem stout. Mexico, 1870. 
BEAUFORTIA (commemorative of Mary, Duchess of 
Beaufort, a botanical patroness). ORD. Myrtaceew. Elegant 
free-flowering greenhouse Australian shrubs, with sessile, 
opposite, or scattered leaves, and scarlet flowers; calyx 
with a turbinate tube; stamens in bundles opposite the 
petals. They require a compost of peat, leaf soil, and loam, 
lightened, if necessary, by the addition of sand. Cuttings 
of half-ripened shoots root freely in sandy soil, under a glass, 
with very little heat. 
B. decussata (decussate). fl. scarlet; bundles of stamens on 
very long claws ; filaments radiating. May. on. Bs es decus- 
sate, ovate, or oval, many-nerved. h. 3ft. to 1 ew Holland, 
1803. (B. M. 1733.) 
B. purpurea (purple).* fi, purplish-red, in dense globular heads. 
k aire to five-nerved, erect or spreading, ovate-lanceolate to lan- 
ceolate-linear. New Holland. 
B. sparsa (few-leaved). fl. bright scarlet. 1 
scattered, ovate-elliptical, obtuse. West Australia, 
splendens. (P. F. G. xiii., 145.) 
B. splendens (splendid). Synonymous with B. sparsa. 
BEAUMONTIA (in honour of Mrs. Beaumont, for- 
merly of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire). ORD. Apocynaceæ. A 
very ornamental stove twiner, remarkable for its handsome 
flowers. It succeeds best when planted out in the borders 
of a temperate house, in rich lumpy loam and peat. Pro- 
pagated by cuttings, placed in sand, with bottom heat. 
B. grandiflora (large-flowered).* l., corolla large, white, ish 
outside near the base, and eg oat, with a Sort aa aed 
l. many-nerved, 
Syn. B. 
; and a 
campan five-lobed limb; corymbs axillary and terminal, 
many-flowered. June. l broad, oblong-ovate, with a 
e Esa wn e — smooth shining above, 
er downy beneath; leaves and branches rusty, 
Chittagong and Sylhet, 1820. ¢ 3213.) f A 
BED. A term usually applied to pieces of ground laid 
out in gardens for sowing small seeds, or for the isolation 
and better protection of ‘small collections of plants in the 
reserve ground. The oblong is the best shape for this pur- 
pose, about 4ft. or 5ft. wide, somewhat raised, and having a 
narrow path on each side, so that the workman may attend 
to the plants or seeds without having to tread on the bed. 
Any one part of a flower-garden design, cut ont in grass, or 
otherwise formed, is also generally termed a Bed. When 
required to be planted for effect, as in this case, the Bed 
should be proportionate in size to the plants that are to be 
put in it, always planting the highest in the centre and 
gradually sloping, with other sizes, to the edges, which 
should be the lowest. Circular Beds are best with one 
centre plant; and oblong or other shapes should have the ~ 
height of the centre plants carried nearly the whole length, 
not, however, placing them in too formal a manner. 
BEDDING-IN. A method of seed-sowing, now almost 
obsolete, and chiefly employed in nurseries. “In this 
method, the ground being dug and formed by alleys into 
Beds, 4ft. or 5ft. wide, each alley being a spade’s width 
or more between Bed and Bed, and the earth being drawn 
off the top of the Bed with a rake or spade, tin. or lin. 
deep into the alleys, the seed is then sown all over the 
surface of the Bed; which being done, the earth in the 
alleys is immediately cast over the Bed, again covering the 
seeds the same depth, and the surface is raked smooth” 
(Johnson). In the case of small seeds, a very light covering 
is needed, and that only of very fine soil. 
BEDDING-OUT. The temporary placing out of doors 
of greenhouse and other tender plants during the summer 
months. It is considered by some to be the showiest, 
most expensive, and most unnatural of any style. The 
ome arrangement of gaudy colours is not at all 
times satisfactory, and under the most favourable cc 
