EELVIDERE. 



BERGAMOT. 



double, the large quilled, and the 

 hen-and-cliickens, but there are 

 many others. In Germany, nume- 

 rous curious varieties have been 

 raised by saving the seed of the 

 handsomest kinds. Each sort is 

 much improved by being taken up, 

 divided, and replanted three or 

 four times every season. They are 

 all admirable plants for making 

 edgings to borders, and they ai-e 

 well suited for growing in pots, 

 though at present they are almost 

 neglected. They thrive best in a 

 loamy 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-garden, when just coming 

 into flower, and taken back again 

 to make room for other plants, 

 when they have gone out of flower. 

 "Wireworms, which, as it is known, 

 are extremely destructive to Pinks 

 and Carnations, are said to be so 

 fond of Daisies, as never to touch 

 any other flower when they are 

 near. 



Bellows for Fumigation. — 

 A machine composed of the common 

 bellows, or patent blower, used for 

 blowing fires, with the addition of 

 a tube or vessel for containing 

 tobacco, pierced with holes. The 

 tobacco is placed in this vessel, and, 

 being lighted, the air is blown 

 through it, till a sufiicient quantity 

 of smoke is forced out to fill the 

 pit, f]-ame, or house which is to be 

 fumigated for the destruction of 

 insects. 



Belvidere, or Summer Cypress. 

 — See Ko'cHiA. 



Bentha^mia. — CorndcecB. — A 

 very handsome evergreen shrub, 

 with large white showy flowers, 

 which are succeeded by scarlet 

 fruit, having the appearance of a 

 large strawberry. 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 abundance. 



Be'eberis. — JBerberUlecB. — The 

 Berberry. — Deciduous shrubs, na- 

 tives of Europe, North America, 

 and Nepal, several of the species of 

 which are very ornamental. B. 

 vulgaris, the common Berberry, is 

 a most elegaut 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 in spring, when they are 

 covered with their rich yellow blos- 

 soms ; and in autumn, from their 

 long red fruit. The Nepal species 

 are £. asidtica, a robust plant with 

 coarsely-veined leaves, short ra- 

 cemes of flowers, and purplish fruit, 

 which is very good to eat, and 

 which is covered with a fine bloom; 

 B. arisiata is less robust, with 

 glossy, fine-veined leaves, and long 

 racemes of flowers ; B. florihunda 

 has long racemes of small flowers, 

 and large leaves; and^. coridria has 

 short racemes of large flowers, and 

 finely-veined lanceolate leaves, and 

 red fruit. All these species have 

 bright-yellow flowers, which appear 

 in spring, and are very ornamental. 

 They are also all quite hardy, 

 thriving in any common soil, and 

 easily propagated by ripened cut- 

 tings, layers, suckers, -or seeds. — 

 See Maho^nia. 



Be'rberry.— See Be'rberis. 



Bergamot.— The true Bergamot 

 is an exotic plant, called Mondrda 

 didynia; but there is also a Ber- 



