EROWALLIA. 



or gai'den-ensine having a very fine 

 rose. Wlien the plants are about 

 three inches high, they should be 

 thinned out so as to be at least six 

 inches apart, and the plants removed 

 should be carefully replanted in 

 another bed. In about a month's 

 time they should be thinned again, 

 and the alternate rows taken up, so 

 as to leave the remaining plants 

 about a foot apart every ivay ; the 

 pjlants removed being taken up with 

 balls of earth, and carefully trans- 

 planted, watered, and shaded tdl 

 they have re-established themselves. 

 Great care is necessary in trans- 

 planting, as the Stocks have long 

 tap-roots, with very few fibrils at- 

 tached. When the plants are wanted 

 to be very fine, they may be pro- 

 tected during winter by hoops and 

 mats, or hand-glasses ; but in 

 general this is not thought neces- 

 sary. In March or April a com- 

 post should be formed of very 

 sandy loam, or sand enriched with 

 the remains of an old hotbed, or 

 vegetable mould, formed of decayed 

 leaves ; and pits about two feet deep 

 and tvro feet in diameter dug in the 

 flower-borders and filled with it, into 

 which the Stocks should be trans- 

 planted, with as large balls of earth 

 attached as can be taken up. They 

 should be carefully shaded and 

 watered till they have taken root; 

 and afterwards they should be wa- 

 tered every night till they come into 

 flower. Thus treated, the spikes 

 of flowers will sometimes be from 

 eighteen inches to two feet long, and 

 proportionably thick. 



Broom. — See Spa'rtium and 

 Geni'sta. 



Browa'llia. — Scroph uldrincB, or 

 Solandcece. —South American tender 

 annuals, generally with blue flowers, 

 requiring to be raised on a hotbed, 

 and generally grown in pots. — See 

 Akkuals. 



Bro'wnea. — Leguminbsce. — 

 This is a genus of rather singular j 

 plants, named in honour of Dr. Pa- j 

 trick Browne, author of the History 

 of Jamaica. B. coccinea is a very 

 singular jflant, with large crimson 

 flowers, which only last about twenty- 

 four hours before they drop ofi". It 

 is a native of Jamaica, whence it 

 was introduced in 1793, though it 

 did not flower till February 1842, 

 nearly fifty years after its intro- 

 duction. 



Brugma'nsia. — Solandcece. — I 

 Peruvian shrubs, or low succulent- \ 

 stemmed trees, of which B. suaveo- 

 lens (better known by the name of 

 Datura arhbrea), and B.sanffiunea, 

 are magnificent species. Being large 

 ptlants, growing to the height of ten 

 or twelve feet, they look best when 

 planted in the ground, in a conser- 

 vatory ; but they will grow well in 

 large pots : or they may be planted 

 in the open garden in the summer 

 season, and taken up and preserved 

 in a back shed, from v.hich the frost 

 is excluded, during winter, to be 

 replaced in the open border the 

 follovang spring. The flowers are i 

 trumpet-shaped, a foot or more in I 

 length, and very fragrant. The 

 plants grow freely in light rich 

 soil : and they are readily propa- 

 gated by cuttings either of the shoots 

 or roots. 



Brunsfe'lsia. — Sa'ophuldrince. 

 — Handsome stove-plants, natives of 

 South America and the West Indies. 

 B. nUicla has large yellow flowers, 

 which it produces copiously the 

 whole of the summer months in a 

 cool stove or warm greenhouse. It 

 is an erect shrub, groM'ing four or 

 five 'feet high, and is readily in- 

 creased by cuttings. 



Brto'nia. — Citciirhitdcece. — See 

 Brtony. 



Bryony. — There are two kinds of 

 Bryony common in English woods, 



