BURSERA 



evergreen trees. 

 Loam and peat. 



BUR 



Two species. 



107 



Stove i Ripe cuttings. 



Cuttings or seeds, i peat. 



CAB 



Rich soil, or loam and 



,„.,....... ,,vc... BYSTROPOGON. Four species. 



BURTONIA. .Fourspecjes. Green- Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- 



house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Very 

 sandy loam and peat. 



BUSHEL. See Basket. 



B U T E A . Three species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



BUTOMUS. Flowering Rush. Two 

 species. Hardy aquatic perennials. 

 Division. Rich loam. 



BUTTER AND EGGS. See Narcis- 

 sus. 



BURCHELLIA. Two species. Stove 



tings. Lo.'im and peat. 



CABBAGE. (Brassica oleracea capi- 

 tata.) " The cabbage tribe is, of all the 

 classes of cultivated vegetables, the 

 most ancient, as well as the most ex- 

 tensive. The Brassica oleracea being 

 extremely liable to sport or run into va- 

 rieties and monstrosities has, in the 

 course of time, become the parent of a 

 numerous race of culinary productions, 

 so various in their habit and appear- 

 ance, that to many it may not appear a 



evergreen shrubs. B. capensis is easily j little extravagant to refer them to the 

 propagated either bv cuttings of the j same origin. 



roots or seed, in very sandy loam and! "We have made our selection from the 

 leaf mould. It requires close pruning, many which abound ; it embraces the 

 to restrain over luxuriance. | earliest, the latest and those which ripen 



BURLINGTONIA. Two species. I intermediately, and have been chosen 

 Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood, on account of their superior worth and 



with a little moss. 



BURNET. Poterium. 



BURN ONION. See Potato Onion. 



BURSARIA spinosa. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam 

 and peat 



suitableness for the peculiarities of our 

 climate ; having found from experience, 

 that some varieties highly esteemed in 

 Europe, are not so desirable in this 

 country. Short descriptions of the kinds 

 we are cultivating, may prove interest- 



BUTTERFLY. The caterpillars of ing to those who lack knowledge of the 

 some of these insects are very injurious subject, and seek information. 



to the gardener, though those of the moth 

 are still more numerous and destructive. 

 The butterflies which are the chief causes 

 of mischief- in our gardens are Pontia 

 brassica:, P. rap<e, P. napi, and Pieris 



''TheEarly Yorkisthe earliest variety, 

 (with the exception of the early dwarf, 

 which is very small, and not worth 

 growing to any extent.) It is a delicious 

 tender cabbage, and well known to all 



crategi. The smells of coal tar and ofi possessing any knowledge of gardening 

 gas lime are particularly offensive both j Those from American seeds produce 

 to butterflies and moths, and those may ' heads firmer and larger than is pro- 

 be readily strewed about the plants ! duccd by the imported. The entire 

 liable to become the depositories of J crop does not ripen so nearly together 

 their eggs. If shreds of flannel are i as the imported, in which respect it is 

 placed in the branches of gooseberries, j also superior; for whilst some among_ 

 or among cabbages, &c., the parent in- i them will be as early as the earliest of 

 sects are said to place their eggs there j the imported, others will succeed them, 



in preference to the leaves 



BUTTERFLY-PLANT 

 Papilio. 



BUTTON FLOWER. Gornphia. 



BUTTON TREE. Conocarpus. 



BUXUS. Four species and many 

 varieties. Chiefly hardy evergreen 

 shrubs. Suckers or layers. Common 

 soil. See Box. 



B Y B L I S linijlora. Green-house 



thus answering better for family use ; 

 Oncidium ! and for the market it is also an advan- 

 tage, those coming in last being of an 

 increased size and hardness. It is, 

 moreover, hardier than the imported, 

 and having become acclimated, with- 

 stands the heat better, which gives it a 

 great advantage over the foreign, es- 

 pecially at the south. 



" Method of cult ii'at ion nt Philadelphia. 



aquatic perennial. Seeds. Loamy soil, ' — Sow the seed from about the 10th to 

 and immersed in water. the 20th of September. If sown earlier,^ 



BYRSONLMA. Thirteen species, the plants are apt to " shoot," and if 

 Stove evergreen shrubs or trees. B. later, may not get sufficiently strong to 

 volubilis is an evergreen twining plant, stand the winter. That the seed may 



