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AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 991 
Buddleia— continued. 
The species most extensively grown is B. globosa, which, 
among all our other shrubs, is quite unique; but it is only 
in the southern or favoured counties of England where it 
can be fairly termed hardy. It is readily propagated by 
cuttings or by seeds. The latter should be sown in a gentle 
heat the spring following the ripening, when they will vege- 
tate pretty freely. With careful treatment and nurturing 
in pots for the first winter, in a frost-proof pit or house, they 
may soon be grown into elegant plants. Cuttings of the 
ripened wood, put in under bell glasses or hand lights, in a 
cool but frost-proof pit, will root slowly during the winter. 
They will root all the surer and quicker if each cutting has 
a heel of older wood attached to that of the current year’s 
growth. They are best inserted in fine sand or in very 
sandy soil, and require but little water until rooted. As 
soon as fairly calloused over or rooted, their further pro- 
gress may be much advanced by potting them off, and 
plunging them in a bottom-heat of 60deg. or 65deg. This 
is by no means an essential to secure success, but it hastens 
it, and promotes growth in an extraordinary manner. The 
surface temperature should range about the same as the 
bottom-heat. Under such treatment, the plants will be 
quite fit to place out about the middle of July. A warm, 
sheltered situation should be chosen, and a light, rich soil 
prepared for them; and if dry weather ensues, they only 
require water. South or west walls are, without doubt, the 
best situations for them. In all cool or unfavourable 
localities, much may be done to ensure success by planting 
on a dry bottom, and on poorish soil. A loose, free-and- 
easy style of training suits the plants best. This enables 
,them to yield a great number of their peculiarly formed, 
distinct, and beautiful flowers; whereas, anything like a 
close, trim course of pruning or of training reduces the 
flowers to the lowest number. 
Throughout the southern parts of England, and, indeed, 
in many places in the north, B. globosa makes an excellent 
bush for the shrubbery. It is only during severe winters 
that it gets badly cut. 
_,.For the other presumably hardy species much the same 
plan as the foregoing may be adopted. The greenhouse and 
stove kinds may have the same routine of culture usually 
employed with plants requiring similar temperatures. 
Stove species, except where specified otherwise. 
B. americana (American ow; pikes disposed in a 
terminal fies nearly 1ft. Fath oll es nearly globose, 
size of a sloe, on short peduncles. August. l. ovate, acuminated, 
= at the base, serrately crenated, h. 8ft. to 12ft. Peru, 
B. asiatica (Asiatic).* fl. white, small, di ed in long, dense 
racemes. l. lanceolate, finely serra‘ 3ft. India, 1874. 
A graceful and sweet-scented shrub. Syn. B. Neemda. (B. M. 6323.) 
B. cris curled). fl. lilac, with a white eye; numerously 
peg s > terminal branching spikes, forming a pyramidal 
head about bin. long. March. J. ovate-lanceolate, Seer 
curled ; lower ones cordate at the base; superior ones rounded, 
all thick and wrinkled, clothed with soft tomentum on both 
surfaces. h. 13ft. Western Himalayas. Half-hardy. (B. M. 4793.) 
lobosa (globose).* jl. orange, or honey-colour; heads large, 
ag te th ari Pediat May. l. lanceolate, acuminated, 
petiolate, crenated, 6in. long. Branches sub-tetragonal, clothed 
with hoary tomentum, as well as the under side of the leaves, 
h. 15ft. to 20ft. Chili, 1774. Hardy in most places. (B. M. 174.) 
Lindleyana (Lindley’s). fl. purplish-red, hairy; disposed in 
ates gan S ae peak toy l. ovate, shortly petiolate, 
serrate. Branches angular, glabrous. R. 6ft. China, 1844, Half- 
hardy. (B. R. 32, 4.) 
B. Neemda (Neemda). A synonym of B. asiatica. 
BUDS, FLOWER. These are developed like Leaf- 
buds, from which they differ chiefly in containing one or 
more incipient flowers within the leaves—the flowers 
being wrapped up in their own floral-leaves, within the 
ordinary leaves, which have their outer covering of scales. 
If a Bud be gathered from a Lilac or Horse-chestnut very 
early in spring, all the rudiments of the future flowers and 
leaves will be found within it, though the Bud itself may 
not be more than half-an-inch long, and the flowers not 
larger than the points of the smallest pins, 
BUDS, LEAF. These consist of rudimentary leaves, 
surrounding a growing vital point, and appear like a 
collection of scales arranged symmetrically one above. the 
other. Leaf-buds universally originate in the horizontal 
or cellular system, and are formed under the bark at the 
extremity of the medullary rays, and at the margin or on 
the surface of leaves, whether perfect or rudimentary. 
Deciduous trees lose their leaves, but in the axil of 
each a little Bud previously forms, from which fresh 
leaves expand the following spring. Im some cases, as 
in the Horse-chestnut, the Buds are covered with a gummy 
exudation. In Privet-trees, Leaf-buds are generally smaller 
and more elongated than Flower-buds. 
BUETTNERIA (named after David Sigismund Au- 
gustus Byttner, once a Professor of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Gottingen). ORD. Sterculiacew. Erect or scan- 
dent stove or greenhouse shrubs. Flowers small, usually 
dark purple; calyx and corolla valvate; umbels simple, 
disposed in something like racemes or panicles, rarely in 
corymbs. Leaves simple. All are of easy culture in a 
compost of loam and peat. B. dasyphylla, hermannie- 
folia, microphylla, and scabra, are occasionally met with, 
but they are hardly worth growing. 
BUETTNERIEZ. A section of Sterculiacee. 
BUFF-TIP MOTH (Pygera bucephala). This large 
and beautiful Moth is very common in many districts; it 
is easily recognised by the buff-coloured tips of the fore- 
wings—whence its common name; the head, and body 
between the wings and abdomen, are ochreous. According 
to Newman’s “ British Moths,” “the caterpillars, when full 
grown, are about an inch and three-quarters long, and 
sprinkled with silky hairs; the general colour yellow, with 
black head, black lines running from the head to the tail, 
interrupted by a transverse orange band on each ring, and 
a black horny plate above the tail segment.” They feed 
on the leaves of the Lime, Elm, and Oak, among other 
trees, and apparently the only remedy is that generally 
adopted in exterminating caterpillars, viz., to shake the 
branches which are infested, when the pest will be quickly 
dislodged, and fall to the ground. Miss Ormerod is of 
opinion that “as the caterpillars come down the tree to 
| the ground for their change to chrysalids, it might be 
worth while to throw a few spadefuls of gas-lime, or of 
anything they would not cross, in a circle at about a yard 
from the tree; or a rough band of any material soaked in 
tar, or tar and oil, which would keep wet longer, would 
stop them from straying off . . . and they might be 
cleared in sufficient numbers so as to considerably lessen 
future attack.” This plan of prevention deserves a trial 
in any place where the destructive caterpillars of these 
Moths abound. It is almost a hopeless task to destroy 
them altogether when once established on the trees, such 
specimens as large Oaks being often almost or wholly de- 
nuded of foliage. 
BUGLE. See Ajuga. 
BUGLOSSUM BARRELIERI. 
Barrelieri. 
BUGWORT. See Cimicifuga. 
BULBIFEROUS. Bearing bulbs. 
See Anchusa 
BULBINE (from bolbos, a bulb). ORD. Liliaceae. A 
genus of rather pretty hardy, or nearly hardy, herbaceous 
or bulbous plants, allied to Anthericum. Flowers showy, 
fragrant; perianth with spreading segments. Leaves 
somewhat fleshy, narrow. Stems short. They are all of 
easy culture in a compost of sandy loam. The bulbous- 
rooted species are increased by offsets, and the herba- 
ceous sorts by suckers and divisions. The only species 
which can be grown satisfactorily in the open air is 
B. annua. All the others should be grown in the green- 
house, but may be placed in the open during the summer 
months, 
