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AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 179 
Begonia—continued. 
NIMROD,* rich red-scarlet, very large and full, with a free and 
very vigorous habit; PRESIDENT BURELLE,* glowing red, tinted 
with scarlet, very free; QUEEN OF DOUBLES,* rich rosy-crimson, 
very double and floriferous. one of the best varieties ; ROBERT 
Burns,* brilliant orange-scarlet, tinted vermilion, very double 
and free; SIR GARNET, deep orange-scarlet, very vigorous ; WM. 
BEALBY,* deep velvety scarlet, immense size and perfect form, 
very free. 
Wess Lelouret Apa,* bright rosy-salmon, fringed at the edge, 
very full and free ; COMTESSE H. DE CHOISEUL, pale rose, at first 
nearly white, very handsome; ESTHER,* rich rosy pink, with a 
distinct crimson margin; FORMOSA,* rich rosy carmine, with a 
white centre and crimson margin, very distinct and showy ; 
GLORY OF STANSTEAD,* deep rose, with a well-defined white 
centre, very distinct and handsome ; JOHN T. POE,* bright rose, 
tinted with cerise, of excellent form and vigorous habit; MADAME 
COMESSE,* rich satiny salmon-rose, immense, and most profuse ; 
MADAME LEON SIMON, soft pale rose, very full and free; MARIE 
LEMOINE, light salmon with a rose centre; MRS. BRISSENDEN,* 
salmon-rose, with a cream-white centre, of excellent form and 
very free; PZONIFLORA, flowers enormous, rich salmon-rose, very 
full; QUEEN OF Scots,* satiny-pink, salmon-shaded, of a perfect 
form and very large, habit compact and very free; ROSINA,* deep 
rose, violet shaded, of exquisite form, very vigorous and free, 
White-Flowered : ANTOINETTE QUERIN,* pure white, cream, 
shaded centre, very large and full, a magnificent variety ; 
BLANCHE JEANPIERRE, pure white, cream tinted, of excellent 
form and very free; LITTLE GEM,* pure white, of the best form 
and good size, habit dwarf and extremely floriferous; MRS. 
LUDLAM,* white, tinted with pink, a very handsome variety ; 
PRINCESS OF WALES,* flowers very full and profuse, almost pure 
in colour, and immense. 
Yellow-Flowered: CANARY BIRD,* flowers large, of the finest 
form, deep yellow, habit dwarf and very free; GABRIEL LEGROS,* 
e sulphur, changing to yellow, very full and imbricated, ex- 
mely showy. 
BEGONIACEZ:. An order comprising a large num- 
ber of useful garden plants. The only genera are Begonia 
and Begoniella (which is not yet in cultivation). Flowers 
apetalous; perianth single; pistillate flowers having the 
perianth two to eight-cleft, staminate ones two to four- 
cleft; stamens numerous, collected into a head. Leaves 
alternate, stipulate. See Begonia. 
BEJARIA. See Befaria. 
BELLADONNA. See Atropa. 
BELLADONNA LILY. See Amaryllis Bella- 
donna. 
BELLEVALIA (named in honour of P. R. Belleval, 
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BELL GLASSES, or CLOCHES. These are used 
for the purpose of protecting or accelerating the growth of 
a plant or plants. The French Cloche (see Fig. 237) is 
largely employed for this purpose. Ordinary Bell Glasses 
(see Fig. 238) are exceedingly useful for propagating pur- 
poses, especially for hard-wooded plants; or for placing over 
subjects which require a very moist atmosphere, such as 
Filmy ferns, Cephalotus, &c.; or for covering half-hardy 
plants or rare alpines, and thus protecting them from ex- 
cessive moisture. Large Bell Glasses, inverted, serve as 
miniature aquaria, and many small aquatics are easily 
grown in them. ` 
BELLIDIASTRUM (from bellis, a daisy, and astrum, 
a star; flower-heads being star-like). ORD. Composite. A 
pretty dwarf, hardy, herbaceous perennial, allied to Aster. 
It thrives in a compost of loam, leaf soil, and peat. In- 
creased by divisions in early spring, or directly after 
blooming, 
B. Michelii (Michel’s).* /l.-heads white ; scape one-headed, naked ; 
involucre with equal leaves; pappus simple. June. J. in a rosette, 
shortly stalked, obovate, repand. A. lft. Austria, 1570. 
BELLIS (from bellus, pretty, in reference to the 
flowers), Daisy. ORD. Composite. A genus of hardy her- 
baceous perennials, distinguished from allied genera in 
having conical receptacles and an absence of pappus. 
They grow well in all loamy soils. The garden varieties 
are increased by division after flowering, each crown 
making a separate plant. The soil must be pressed about 
them moderately firm. Seeds may aiso be sown in March, but 
the plants thus obtained are seldom of sufficient floricul- 
tural merit to perpetuate. 
a French botanist). ORD. Liliacew. This genus is now 
usually placed under Hyacinthus. Hardy, bulbous-rooted 
plants, admirably adapted for spring bedding or forcing, 
and invaluable as cut flowers. Flowers small, whitish, or 
violet, tinged with green. Leaves few, radical, broadly 
linear. They are of extremely easy culture in ordinary 
Me garden soil. Propagated by offsets; also by seeds, which 
Pe ees Se 
Fig. 239. BELLIS PERENNIS FLORE-PLENO. 
n nial).* Common Daisy. Jl.-heads white. June. 
should be sown as soon as ripe. i. num roomy Tying Ani on th : ground, obovate, create, slightly 
R e aooe SS EE a are ve y perap Ae oes nio ones being particularly fine. See 
; B. romana (Roman).* Roman Hyacinth. fl. white, racemose ; Fig. 239. The handsome variegated form, aucube/folia, has its 
ecg! campanulate ; pedicels longer than the flowers. April. 
from 4in. to Sin. long.” h. 6in, Italy, 1596. A most desirable 
2 lant, and the best the genus for a3 ‘oie SYNS. 
. operculata and Hyacinthus anus. (B. M. 939, under the 
-~ name of Scilla romana.) See thus, 
B. syriaca (Syrian).* jl. white; uncles spreading, racemose. 
May. l. glaucous, lft. long, i eed, rather scarious on the 
margins, h. lft. Syria, 1840. 
 BELL-FLOWER. ‘See Campanula. 
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Fia. 240. HEN AND CHICKENS DAISY (BELLIS PERENNIS PROLIFERA). 
i tained and veined with yellow. There are both 
leaves richly. Staines ad forms of this variety. ‘The Hemand 
Chickens Daisy is a proliferous form, rather more quaint than — 
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