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BRUGMANSIA. 134 BRYONY. 
they should be thinned out so as to / guinea, are magnificent species. 
be at least six inches apart, and the | Being large plants, growing to the 
plants removed should be carefully brea of ten or twelve feet, they 
replanted in another bed. In about|look best when planted in the 
a month’s time they should be! ground, in a cons ry ; but 
thinned again, the alternate rows | they will grow well large pots : 
taken up, so as to leave the remain- or they may be planted in the open 
ing plants about a foot apart every | garden in the summer season, and 
way ; the plants removed being taken up and preserved in a back 
taken up with balls of earth and shed, from which the frost is ex- 
carefully transplanted, watered, and cluded, during winter, to be replaced 
shaded till they have re-established in the open border the following 
themselves. Great care isnecessary spring. The flowers are trumpet- 
in transplanting, as the Stocks have shaped, a foot or more in length, 
long tap-roots, with very few fibrils and very fragrant. The plants 
attached. When the plants are grow freely in light rich soil ; and 
wanted to be very fine, they may they are readily propagated by cut- 
be protected during winter by hoops tings either of the shoots or roots. 
and mats, or hand-glasses, but in Bryo\nra.— Cucurbitdcee. —See 
general this is not thought necessary. | Bryony. 
in March or April a compost should| Bryony.—There are two kinds 
be formed of very sandy loam or of Bryony common in English 
sand, enriched with the remains of _ woods, very different in the eyes of 
an old hotbed, or vegetable mould, a botanist, but bearing considerable 
formed of decayed leaves; and pits resemblance to each other in the 
about two feet deep and two feet in | eyes of an amateur. They are both 
diameter dug in the flower-borders | found wild in hedges and thickets, 
and filled with it, into which the through which they contrive to 
Stocks should be transplanted, with | insinuate their long slender stems 
as large balls of earth attached as | and branches, hanging from tree to 
can be taken up. ‘They should be | tree; they have both greenish-white 
carefully shaded and watered till inconspicuous flowers; the fruit of 
they have taken root ; and after- both consists of branches of showy 
wards they should be watered every | red berries; and beth of which have 
night till they come into flower. | tuberous roots, of a very acrid na- 
Thus treated, the spikes of flowers ture. They are also both diecious ; 
will sometimes be from eighteen but this is the only botanical resem- 
inches to two feet long, and propor- blance between them. ‘The White 
tionably thick. Bryony (Bryénia dioica) belongs to 
Broom.—See Spa’rtium and Ge-| the Natural Order Cucurbitacee, 
ni/sTA. and it is the only British plant 
Browa’Lua.—Scrophuldrine, or | belonging to that order. Its leaves 
Solanacee.—South American ten- | are rough and palmate ; its flowers 
der annuals, generally with blue | have a calyx and a corolla, both of 
flowers, requiring to be raised on a/| which are five-cleft, and its stem ts 
hotbed, and generally grown in pots. | climbing and furnished with numer- 
See ANNUALS. ous tendrils. The Black Bryony 
Bruema’nsta.— Soldnee.— Peru- (Tdmus commitnis) has, on the 
vian shrubs, or low succulent- | contrary, smooth, shining, heart- 
stemmed trees, of which B. swa- shaped leaves of a very deep and 
véolens, (better known by the name | | glossy green ; the flowers consist of 
of Datira arborea) and B. san- | only one covering, which is six-cleft, 
