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often do considerable mischief to the riance and beauty of his flowers. One 



rose-trees, bv eating large holes in the pound of bone-dust mixed with twelve 



leaves; and", keeping on the under ounces of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), 



sides, they are seldom visible until they and twelve ounces of water, if left to 



are full-grown, when they are often an act upon each other for a day, form 



inch in length, and ramble about to super-phosphate of lime, a wine-glass 



select some suitable crevice in the bark 

 of a tree or other secure place to spin 

 their fine white silken web, strengthen- 

 ed and protected with the different 

 hairs from their own bodies ; in this 

 web they change to pitch colour, and 

 rather hairy chrysalides, from whence 

 the moths are produced at various pe- 

 riods." — Gard. Chron. 



full of which has been found beneficial 

 to pelargoniums. Applied as a top- 

 dressing, mixed with half its weight of 

 charcoal dust, it is a good manure for 

 onions, and may be applied at the rate 

 of nine pounds to the square rod. 

 There is little doubt of this super-phos- 

 phate being good for all our kitchen- 

 garden crops, being more prompt in its 



BON .\ P .\RT E A . Two species, effects upon a crop than simple bone- 

 Stove epiphytes. Seed. Rich sandy dust, because it is soluble in water, and 



loam. 



therefore more readily presented to the 



BONATEA speciosa. Stove epiphyte. ! roots in a state for them to imbibe. 



Division. Sandy peat and loam 



BONES are beneficial as a manure, 

 because their chief constituent (phos- 

 phate of lime) is also a constituent of 

 all plants; and the gelatine which is 

 also in bones is of itself a source of food 

 to them. The bones of the ox, sheep, 



BONNETIA palustris. Stove ever- 

 green tree. Cuttings. Loam and peat. 



B O N T I A daphnoides. Stove ever- 

 green tree. Cuttings. Loam and peat. 



BORAGE (Borago officinalis). Its 

 young leaves are sometimes used in 

 salads, or boiled as spinach. Being 



horse, and pig, being those usually em- aromatic, its spikes of flowers are put 

 ployed, their analyses are here given: — into negus and cool tankards. 



Ox Sheep Horse Fig Soil and Situation. — For the spring 

 and summer sowing, any light soil and 

 open situation may be allotted, provid- 

 ed the first is not particularly rich ; but 

 for those which have to withstand the 



Phosph. of lime 

 Carb. of lime 

 Animal matter 

 The bones must 



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 be applied to the ! winter, a light dry soil, and the shelter 



crops in very small pieces or powder; of a south fence, is most suitable. A 



and ten pounds at the time of insertin<: 

 the seed is enoug'ii for thirty square 

 yards, if sown broadcast ; and a much 

 smaller quantity is suthcient if sprinkled 

 along the drills in wiiich the seed is 



very fertile soil renders it super-luxu- 

 riant, and injures the intensity of its 

 flavour. 



Times and mode of sowing. — It is 

 propagated by seed, which is sown in 



sown. There is no doubt that bone .March or April, and at the close of July, 



dust may be employed with advantage 

 in all gardens and to all garden-crops, 

 but it has been experimented on most 

 extensively with tlie turnip and potato, 

 and with unfailing benefit. Mixed with 

 sulphur, and drilled in with the turnip 

 seed, it has been found to preserve the 

 young plants from the fly. Mr. Knight 

 found it beneficial when applied largely 

 to stone-fruit, at the time of planting : 

 and it is (|uite as good for the vine. To 



for production in summer and autumn, 

 and again in August or September, for 

 the supply of winter, and succeeding- 

 spring. These sowings to be performed 

 in shallow drills, six inches asunder. 

 When of about six weeks' growth, the 

 plants are to be thinned to six inches 

 apart, and the plants thus removed of 

 the spring and autumn"sowing, may be 

 transplanted at a similar distance ; but 

 those ofthe summer seldom will endure 



awns, the dust has been applied with the removal, and at all times those led 

 great advantage when the grass was unmoved prosper most. At the time of 

 becoming thin. As a manure for the transplanting, if at all dry weather, they 

 shrubbery, parterre, and green-house, must be occasionally watered mode- 

 it is also most valuable ; and crushed as rately until established: water must 

 well as ground, is employed generally also be frequently applied to the seed 

 to mix with the soil of potted plants, bed of the summer sowing, otherwise 

 Mr. Maund finds it promotes the luxu- j the vegetation will be slow and weak. 



