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but for general use smaller examples are 
preferable, and in most cases it will be 
found best to propagate fresh stock either 
all or in part yearly. The following are 
all fine kinds :— 
B. Alfred Neuner. A double variety, 
with pure white flowers, produced freely. 
B. candidissima. A pure white kind. 
Very sweet scented. 
B. Dazzler. Intense scarlet, a fine variety. 
B. elegans. Scarlet, brighter than B. 
Hogarth. 
B. flavescens. Flowers pale yellow. 
B. Hogarth. Scarlet, makes large trusses. 
B. Humboldt corymbiflora. Pure white ; 
very sweet scented. The largest-flowered 
kind. 
B. jasminoides longiflora. 
a free grower. 
B. longiflora. . Pure white ; 
flowered sort. 
B. President Garfield. A distinct, hand- 
some, pale pink, double variety. A. sport 
from B. Alfred Neuner. 
B. Vreeland. A dwarf-growing, pro- 
fuse-flowering, white kind. 
Insects.—Thrips are easily kept down 
by the regular syringing that the plants 
should have through the growing season. 
If scale or mealy bug happens to trouble 
them, they must be kept under by spong- 
ing and syringing freely with tepid water ; 
all affected plants should be discarded after 
they have flowered, and propagation effected 
from clean stock. 
Pure white ; 
a large- 
BRACHYSEMA. 
Evergreen greenhouse climbers, possess- 
ing some merit, but not often met with. 
They are increased by seeds : the method 
of sowing and the subsequent treatment 
should be as advised for Bomareas, which 
see. They may also be propagated by 
layers. 
The following are the most effective 
kinds :— 
B. acuminata. Flowers red, a spring 
bloomer. From the Swan River. 
B. hybrida. A hybrid variety with 
crimson flowers ; blooms in the spring. 
B. latifolia. Flowers crimson, produced 
in spring. From New Holland. 
BRAHEA. 
A small genus of stove Palms that attain 
a moderate size ; several of the species are 
sufficiently distinct from those belonging 
to other genera to make them desirable. 
For propagation and cultivation, see 
Palms, general details of culture. 
B. filamentosa. This species forms 
quantities of thread-like filaments on the 
leaves, which give it a decidedly remarkable 
appearance. It comes from California. 
B. mtida. A handsome species, with 
moderate-sized leaves, it is not a very fast 
grower, neither does it require so much 
head-room as most kinds. South 
America. 
BRAINEA INSIGNIS. 
This, which appears to be the only 
known species of this genus.of Ferns, is a 
very desirable stove kind, and should be 
much more generally cultivated than at 
present. It is a dwarf Tree species 
forming a moderate-sized head on a com- 
paratively short well-proportioned stem. 
In appearance it comes nearest to some of 
the Lomarias, such as L. cycadifolia. 
Introduced from Hong-Kong. 
For propagation and cultivation, see 
Ferns, general details of culture. 
BREXIA., 
These are stove plants that grow to the 
size of small trees, but since fine-leaved 
subjects came so much into fashion one 
or two of them have been cultivated for 
their handsome foliage. They can be 
struck from cuttings and grown on in the 
way advised for Theophrastas, which see. 
Their leaves are distinct and handsome. 
The following are worth a place where 
room is not limited :— 
B. chrysophylla. An evergreen species 
from the Mauritius. 
B. spinosa. A distinct evergreen kind 
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BRUGMANSIA. 
Amongst flowering greenhouse plants that 
grow to a large size the Brugmansias 
stand conspicuous. Strong and vigorous 
in habit they require a considerable 
amount of root-room unless the object is to 
restrict their size, a course of treatment to 
which they submit better then most plants 
that grow large naturally. They produce 
large funnel-shaped flowers varying in 
colour from the white B. Knightii to B. 
bicolor, the flowers of which are sanguine 
red. They can be grown so as to bloom 
well in pots or tubs, but they are seen 
to advantage when planted out so as to 
form a standard, or, still better, where there 
is room for the growth to extend, as at the 
end of a large greenhouse or conservatory 
where the light they get through the glass 
to which the shoots are in close contact 
matures the wood and induces the freest 
