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which takes place in it, evidence is sending out fibres from the base, and 

 had that the operation has succeeded. | so converting itself into a new indi- 

 VVithin a fortnight after the bud has I vidual. Every bulbous-rooted plant 

 been inserted, its fresh swelling aspect ] has some peculiar point in its manage- 

 •will intimate if it has united to the I ment, but there are a few rules of 

 stock. At the end of the third week, general applicability. They should 

 if bass or worsted have been used as never be moved except whilst in a 

 ligatures, these must be loosened, and state of rest ; this occurs to the sum- 

 in about ten days more removed. Very mer-flowering bulbs in autumn, and to 

 early in the spring following, the heads the autumn-flowering in early summer, 

 of the stocks must be removed by an ' They require to be taken up annually, 

 oblique cut terminating about one- : or at farthest every second or third 

 eighth of an inch above the shield of- year, to remove the accumulated off- 

 the bud, or six inches of the stock may | sets. No bulb should be kept out of 

 be left for the Tfirst year, to which to the ground for more than a month, and 



fasten the shoot as a support. 



BUDDLEA. Twelve species. Stove 

 or green-house evergreen shrubs. B. 

 globosa is hardy. Layers or cuttings. 

 Loam and peat. 



BUFF-TIP MOTH. See Bombyx. 



BUGINVILL.T:A spectabUis. Stove 



even during that time it is desirable to 

 keep it from drying by burying it in 

 sand. 



" Some bulbs," says Mr. Loudon, 

 " multiply so fast by throwing out off- 

 sets, that they soon cease to send up 

 flower stems. Of these may be men- 

 tioned the Ornithosalum umhellatum 



evergreen climber. Cuttings. Loamy /u^eum, and some other species ; some 



soil 



BUGLE. See Ajuga. 



BUISSON, is a fruit tree on a very 

 low stem, and with a head closely 

 pruned. 



BULBINE. Twenty-one species. 

 Chiefly green-house herbaceous peren- 

 nials. B. frutescens, B. rostrata, B. 



species of Scilla Muscari, Iris, Allium, 

 Oxalis, and others. These should 

 eitlier be annually taken up, their off- 

 sets removed, and the parent bulb re- 

 planted, or the offsets, as soon as they 

 send up leaves, should be destroyed. 

 Indeed, whenever strong blowing bulbs 

 is the principal object, the offsets 



swar/s are evergreen shrubs; B.bisul- should never be allowed to attain any 

 cata, is a hardy bulb. Cuttings, offsets, ! size, but as soon as they indicate their 

 suckers. Sandy loam or rich mould. | existence by showing leaves above 



BULBS, are really underground j ground, they should be removed with 

 buds ; their fibrous or real roots die I a blunt stick, or in any way least in- 

 annually, but the bulbs remain stored Ijurious to the parent. By this practice 

 with elaborated sap, and retaining, | a great accession of strength is given to 

 though latent, the vital powers of the the main plant, both for the display of 

 plant, ready for reproduction at the blossom during the current season, and 

 a[)propriate season. Beside root bulbs, for invigorating the leaves to prepare 

 as are the onion, crocus, &c., there are and deposit nutriment in the bulb for 

 stem or culinary bulbs, equally efficient the next year. In pursuance of the 

 for |)ropagation. same objects, every flower should be 



The culinary bulb consists of a num- pinched off as soon as it begins to de- 

 ber of small scales closely compacted I cay, but the flower-stalk may remain 

 together in an ovate or conical form, till it begins to change colour with the 

 enclosing the rudiments of a future leaves." — Enc, Uard. 

 plant, and originating sometimes in the j " The rule to observe with newly 

 axil of the leaves, as in Dentaria bulbi- , imported bulbs, is to place them where 

 fera and several liliaceous plants, and \ they absorb moisture very slowly. The 

 sometimes at the base of the umbel of driest earth is full of water, which can 

 flowers, as in Allium carinatum and only be driven off" by the application of 

 others, in both which cases it is nou- intense heat. A bulb, therefore, should 

 rislied by the parent plant till it has be planted in what is called dry soil, 

 reached maturity, at which period the and placed in a shady part of a green- 

 bond of connexion is dissolved, and the house until it has become plump and 

 bulb falls to the ground, endowed with begun to shoot. If it has begun to 

 the power of striking root in the soil by | shoot when received, still the same 



