BULBS. eS wv 138 BULBS. 
for the sake either of supplying 
vacant places in the branches, or 
of producing several kinds on the 
same tree. Thus on climbing Bri- 
tish Roses, several varieties of 
Chinese Roses may be _ budded; 
and on the single red Camellia, 
several varieties of double or white 
Camellias. 
In all cases of budding, it 1s es- 
sential that the stock shall not be 
very different from the bud to be 
inserted in it. In some eases it is 
even necessary thatythe bud and 
the stock should, be of the same 
species; while on the other hand it 
sometimes happens that a bud may 
be inserted successfully in any 
stock which is of the same natural 
order. Thusthe Lilach, the Olive, 
and the Fringe tree, may be budded 
on the common Ash; all the four 
species being of the same ae 
order, Cledcez: Roses and The 
are the plants to which pulang 
most commonly applied by ama- 
teurs; and the finer kinds of the 
former genus are generall gees 
on wild briers of the Dog- 
of the latter (Crategus), the 
common Hawthorn. % : 
Bu'ppiea. — Scrophularin 
Deciduous or evergreen shrubs, 
natives of India or South America, 
of which one species, B. globésa, is 
worth culture in the shrobl bery. It 
has fine golden yellow, ball-lke 
flowers, growing in any common 
soil, and is tolerably hardy, though 
it is sometimes killed by very severe 
frost. It is readily re Ny 
cuttings under a handglas - 
Boxes are plants w =hich belong 
to a particular division cf yegeta- 
bles, having certain peculiarities 
which require a particular mode of | it ought to 
culture. They are all, with searce- 
ly a single exception, very orna- 
mental, from the very large size of 
their flowers in proportion to the 
entire plants, and from the brillian- 
cy of their colors. Their principal | indigenous to Britain , Such 
a 
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peculiarity is, that they produce but 
a limited number ef leaves every 
season ; and hence, if these leaves 
are cut off or injured, no new leaves 
are produced that season. In all 
other herbaceous plants, when the 
leaves are destroyed, fresh leaves 
are produced to a comparatively 
unlimited extent ; and hence, if the 
season be long enough, the plant 
may produce a sufficiency of foliage 
in the eurrent year to enable it to 
mature flowers in the next. But 
in bulbs the different ; me 
case is 
leaves roa 
fully grown, or cut off Li. ae 
begin to decay,, the bi bulb is pies a 
‘of nourishment to such. an extent, 
as either not to flower at all the 
| following season, or to flower very 
weakly. Thus, the great art in the 
culture of bulbs is to preserve all 
eir leaves uninjured, to expose 
them fully to the sun and air, and 
by no means to cut them off till 
they have begun to decay at the 
extremilies. By far the greater 
number of bulbs flower in spring, 
and produce their flower-stems im- 
mediately after they begin to grow; 
shortly. after they have flower- 
ease growing, and remain 
dormant and without leaves during — 
the remainder of the year. Hence, — 
almost all bulbs require to be plant- — 
3 and hence, also, 
they require free, a and some. 
what rich 9s ppc Pree 
at 
cure nourishme 
for their ray 
tds le bulb is in all 
ed by preventing 
producing ob 
the leaves have | 
served igfedr} sand o 
some Case shelves, 
in a dry room, till the ¥ 
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