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Buds may be inserted in stocks at 

 a few inclies from the groimd : in 

 which case, the plants produced are 

 called dwarfs ; or in straight stems 

 at four, five, or six feet from the 

 ground : in which case the plants 

 produced are called standards. The 

 latter is the most common mode of 

 budding Roses and Orange trees ; but 

 other shrubs and trees of rare or 

 ornamental kinds are commonly 

 budded v/ithin a foot, or a few inches 

 from the ground. Sometimes buds of 

 several kinds are inserted in the 

 same stock ; and sometimes buds 

 are inserted in branches in diflferect 

 parts of the tree, for the sake either 

 of supplying vacant places in the 

 branches, or of producing several 

 kinds on the same tree. Thus, on 

 climbing British Roses, several vari- 

 eties of Chiuese Roses may be bud- 

 ded ; and oq the single red Camel- 

 lia, several varieties of double red or 

 white Camellias. 



In all cases of budding, it is essen- 

 tial that the stock shall not be very 

 different from the bud to be inserted 

 in it. In some cases it is even ne- 

 cessary that the bud and the stock 

 should be of the same species ; while, i 

 on the other hand, it sometimes hap- 

 pens that a bud may be inserted 

 successfully in any stock which is of 

 the same natural order. Thus the 

 Lilac, the Orange, and the Fringe - 

 tree may be budded on the common 

 Ash ; all the four species being of 

 the same natural order, Oledcece. 

 Roses and Thorns are the plants to 

 which budding is most commonly 

 applied by amateurs ; and the finer 

 kinds of the former genus are gene- 

 rally budded on wild briars of the 

 Dog Rose, and of the latter {Cra- 

 tce^gus), on the common Hawthorn. 



Bu'ddlea. — ScropladdrincB. — 

 Deciduous or evergreen shrubs, 

 natives of India or South America, 

 of which one species, B. glohbsa, is 



worth ctdture in the shrubbery. It 

 has fine golden-yeUow, ball-like 

 flowers, grows in any common soil, 

 and is tolerably hardy, though it is 

 sometimes killed by a very severe 

 frost. It is readily increased by 

 cuttings under a hand-glass. B. 

 Lindleydna is the handsomest spe- 

 cies of the genus. The flowers are 

 produced in a long spike ; and are 

 purple. 



Bulbs are plants which belong 

 to a particular division of vegetables, 

 having certain peculiarities which 

 require a particular mode of culture. 

 They are all, with scarcely a single 

 exception, very ornamental, from the 

 large size of their flowers in propor- 

 tion to the entire plants, and fi'om 

 the brilliancy of their colours. Their 

 principal pecidiarity is, that they 

 produce but a limited number of 

 leaves every season ; and hence, if 

 these leaves are cut oif 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 un- 

 limited extent ; and hence, if the 

 season be long enough, the plant may 

 produce a sufficiency of foliage in the 

 current year to enable it to mature 

 flowers in the next. But in bulbs 

 the case is different ; the leaves pro- 

 duced are very few, and if they are 

 shortened before they are fully 

 grown, or cut off before they begin 

 to decay, the bulb is deprived of 

 nourishment to such an extent, as 

 either not to flower at all the follow- 

 ing season, or to flower very weakly. 

 Thus the great art in the culture of 

 bulbs is to preserve all their 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 extremities. By far 

 the greater number of bulbs flower 

 in spring, and produce their flower- 

 stems immediately after they begin 



