BELLIS. 
parent and potting, to become a 
fresh plant. ‘The only objection to 
its culture is, that it is very apt to 
be infested with the red spider (see | 
A’carus). When planted out in the | 
summer season, it continues to pro-| 
duce flowers for several months. 
Beiiapo'nna.—One of the names | 
for A'tropa Belladonna, the Deadly | 
Nightshade. 
Beriaponna Lity.—A kind of | 
AMARYLLIS. / 
Beti-Flower.—See Campa‘nuca. 
Beiu-Giass—A glass cylinder, 
with a globular top, used for cover-_ 
ing tender cuttings or seedlings. It 
differs from a hand-glass in being 
all in one piece; whereas « hand-_ 
glass consists of several pieces fixed 
in a frame of lead, wood, or iron. , 
Be'iuis.— Composite.—The Dai- | 
sy. Well-known perennials, of 
which B. perénnis, the commen 
Daisy, has been in cultivation in | 
British and continental gardens from | 
time immemorial. The most beau- 
tiful varieties are the large double, 
the large quilled, and the hen-and- | 
chickens ; but there are many others. 
In Germany, numerous curious va- | 
rieties have been raised, by saving | 
the seed of the handsomest kinds. | 
Each sort is much improved by be- 
ing taken up, divided, and replanted 
three or four times every season. 
They are all admirable plants for | 
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er, and taken back again to make 
room for other plants, when they 
have gene out of flower. [These 
pretty plants are seldom seen in our 
gardens in as great abundance as 
they deserve to be, which is owing 
no doubt to their being very impa- 
tient of our hot summers. They 
should therefore be grown in a shady 
and rather cool border.—Eb.]} 
Bettows For Fumicarion.—A 
machine composed of the common 
bellows, or patent blower, used for 
blowing fires, with the addition of a 
tube or vessel for containing tobac- 
co, pierced with holes. ‘The tobacco 
is placed in this vessel, and being 
lighted, the air is blown through it, 
which forces out the smoke so as to 
fill the pit, frame, or house which 
contains the plant or plants which 
are to be fumigated for the destruc- 
tion of insects. 
Be.vipere, or Summer Cypress. 
'—See Ko’cuta. 
Benrua‘m1a.—Cornacee.—A ve- 
ry handsome evergreen shrub, with 
large white showy flowers, which 
are succeeded by scarlet fruit hay- 
ing the appearance of a large straw- 
berry. It is somewhat tender, and, 
north of London, it requires a wall. 
It thrives best in loam, and may be 
propagated by layers, cuttings, or 
seeds, which it produces in abun- 
dance. - 
Be'rveris. — Berberidee.--Theg / 
making edgings to borders, and they 
Berberry. Deciduous shrubs, na-¢ 
are well suited for growing in pots, 
t? 
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though at present they are almost | 
neglected. They thrive best ina 
ioamy soil, richly manured, which 
should be dug over and well broken 
before planting; and they will bear 
transplanting even when in flower, 
provided they are taken up with a 
portion of soil attached. No plants 
are better adapted for covering a 
bed with one mass of colour. Masses 
of any of the kinds of Daisies may 
be brought from the reserve ground 
and laid down on a bed in the flower- 
sarden, when just coming into flow- 
tives of Europe, North America, 
and Nepal, several of the species 
of which are very ornamental for 
their flowers, and also for their fruit. 
B. vulgaris, the common Berberry, 
is a most elegant plant when trained 
to a single stem, and then allowed 
to expand its head freely on every 
side: so treated, the branches be- 
come drooping and have a fine effect 
every spring, when they are covered 
with their rich yellow blossoms ; 
and in autumn, from their long red 
fruit, which at a distance might be 
