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dug among the ordinary soil, should be prepared, and the seed 

 sown very thinly indeed upon it, and raked in. When it 

 comes up let it he cleared of weeds, and in very dry weather 

 occasionally ^Yatered. They may remain until large enough 

 to plant out a foot apart, for if they have not room they 

 soon draw up ugly. Here they have only to be kept clean 

 till they are large enough to jjlant where they are to stand. 

 Except where otherwise specified, those named below are 

 evergreen. B. aquifolia, flowers yellow. B. Bealei, yellow. 

 B. Darwinii, deep orange. B. dulcis, yellow : these are 

 hardy. B. emjjetrifoUa, half hardy, yellow ; B. fascicularis, 

 half hardy, yellow ; B. Fortuni, hardy, yellow ; B. glumacea, 

 hardy, yellow ; B. Nepalensis, half hardy, yellow ; B. repens, 

 hardy ; B. trifoliata, half-hardy deciduous, yellow ; B. trifurca, 

 half-hardy evergreen ; B. vulgaris, hardy deciduous, yellow, 

 are all fine ; and to these may be added B. intermedia, B. 

 Jajwnica, B. glycinefolia, and B. Newbertii. 



BETONICA. Betony. [Labiatse.] Hardy perennials. 

 Soil, common garden mould. Propagated by division. B. 

 grandiflora, purple; B. incana, flesh colour ; B . nivea, red ; 

 and B. orientalis, light purple, are the principal. 



•BIGNONIA. Trumpet Flower. [BignoniacesB.] Climbing 

 shrubs, mostly stove plants, which we omit : one or two are 

 more hardy. To have them fine they must be planted out 

 in peat and loam, and the branches trained at full length. 

 They mostly bloom on short shoots, produced from the well- 

 ripened buds of the previous year's wood. Propagated by 

 cuttings in sand in a hotbed, or by layering. B. capreolata 

 does well on a wall, and flowers red, in June. B. radicans 

 major is fine. See also Tecoma. 



BILLARDIERA. [Pittosporaceae.] Greenhouse ever- 

 green climbers, the flowers succeeded by handsome berries. 

 Soil, peat and loam in equal quantities. Propagated by 

 seeds, or by cuttings placed in a slight heat. B. angusti- 

 folia, B. longiflora, and B. scandens, all flower creamy. 



BLADDER FERN. See Cystopteris. 



BLADDER SENNA. See Colutea. 



BLANDFORDIA. [Liliace^.] Beautiful greenhouse 

 perennials. They should have a very free, open compost, 

 consisting of sandy loam and peat earth, and require large- 



