34 • GLENNY S HANDBOOK 



June. B. coccinea, evergreen, flowers scarlet, in August. 

 B. fuchsioides, evergreen, flowers scarlet, in October. B. 

 nianicata, evergreen, flowers pink, in January. B, nitida, 

 evergreen, flowers blush, in May. B. Prestoniensis and B. 

 Rex may be added. 



BEJARIA. [Ericaceae.] Beautiful evergreen greenhouse 

 shrubs. Soil, turfy peat. Propagated by cuttings in sand 

 under a bell-glass. B. castuans, rose colour. B. coarctata, 

 pink. B. ledifolia and B. racemosa, flower pink. 



BELLADONNA LILY. See Amaryllis. 



BELLEVALIA. [Liliaceae.] Hardy bulbs. Common 

 soil. Propagated by ofl'sets. B. operculata, flowers white. B. 

 Syriaca, flowers orange and blue. 



BELLIDIASTRUM. [Compositae.] Dwarf hardy peren- 

 nial, with daisy-like flowers. Soil, loam and peat. Increased 

 by division. 



BELLIS. Daisy. [Compositae.] Hardy perennials. 

 Common garden soil. The common sort grows wild every- 

 where — in pastures, by the roadside, on banks, and in almost 

 every piece of waste land. Of the garden varieties, the most 

 striking are the double white, double crimson, double striped, 

 and a curious sort vulgarly called the Hen - and - Chicken 

 Daisy, from the fact of small flower-heads coming all round 

 the large ones. They are multiplied by parting the roots 

 into single hearts ; these will, in a season or two, multiply 

 themselves again by spreading offsets all around them, and 

 becoming large patches. They are often used as edgings to 

 beds ; and, next to Box and Thrift, perhaps they form the best, 

 because they can be kept to a moderate width by merely 

 cutting, as the edging of turf might be cut. 



BELLIUM. [Compositae.] Pretty, but minute, her- 

 baceous perennials, suitable for pot culture, or for growing 

 on rockwork, the flowers resembling the Daisy. Soil, sandy, 

 with a fourth part peat. Increased by division ; the annuals 

 by seeds sown in March. The principal are B. bell^ioides, 

 B. crassifoliivm, and B. minutum, all blooming white. 



BENTHAMIA. [Cornaceae.] A hardy evergreen shrub 

 in the warmer parts of England; but in the climate of 

 London it can only be grown in a conservatory, or against a 

 wall, for which, however, its yellowish flowers and reddish 



