370 BULBINELLA. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



BUXUS. 



for open-air culture are B. crispa, B. 

 Lindleyana. B. albi flora is from Cen- 

 tral China, with flowers in long spikes. 

 The name is a mistake, as the flowers 

 are mauve. It is a handsome plant, 

 and promises to be hardy and free. 

 B. variabilis is a native of the moun- 

 tains of China. It is a large shrub, 

 8 to 10 or more feet high, variable in 

 foliage, and with flowers densely 

 crowded in globose heads peduncled 

 in the axils of the uppermost leaves, 

 and which vary in colour from pink to 



Buphthalmum speciosum. 



pale lilac, with an orange throat. Some 

 forms of this, Veitchiana and Magni- 

 fied, are very free and beautiful. These 

 B. variabilis forms are best pruned in 

 March, or even later. 



BULBINELLA HOOKERI. Also 

 known as Anthericum and Chryso- 

 bactron, this graceful member of the 

 Lily order is well suited to either 

 border or rockwork. The plant forms 

 a rosette of linear sheathing leaves, 

 from which columnar spikes i to 2 feet 

 high, bearing bright yellow starry 

 flowers in a dense raceme, and having 

 the aspect of a miniature Eremurus, 

 issue. Prefers a deep rich loam. 

 Flowers in June. Plant 3 inches 

 deep. Seeds or division. New Zealand. 



BULBOCODIUM (Spring Meadow 

 Saffron). B. vernum is a pretty 



liliaceous bulb from 4 to 6 inches 

 high, and one of the earliest of flowers, 

 sending up large rosy-purple flower- 

 buds, distinct in colour. The tubular 

 flowers are nearly 4 inches long, and 

 are usually prettiest in the bud state. 

 Easily increased by dividing the bulbs 

 in July or August, and replanting them 

 from 4 to 6 inches apart. Alps of 

 Europe. 



BUPHTHALMUM. B. speciosum is 

 a bold, free, and showy perennial, 

 hardy, and growing in any soil, with 

 large heart-shaped leaves in great 

 tufts, and, in summer and autumn, 

 handsome heads of showy yellow 

 flowers with dark centres. An excel- 

 lent plant for shrubberies and covering 

 the ground here and there in bold 

 masses, as it grows so close that it 

 keeps the weeds down, and in such 

 ways also gives a better effect than in 

 small tufts in the mixed border. Cen- 

 tral Europe. Division. Syn. Telekia 

 speciosa. 



BURSARIA SPINOSA. Mr E. A. 

 Bowles describes this as growing at 

 Lanarth, " the most southern garden 

 in England." "A freely - branched, 

 small tree about 15 feet high ; the 

 stems are slender for its height, and 

 so freely clothed with silvery green 

 tufts of lichen that even should it 

 never bear flowers it would be a beau- 

 tiful object in any garden." When 

 Mr Bowles saw it in autumn it was so 

 full of flower that it looked like a 

 graceful spout of white spray, and as 

 though it was trying to imitate some 

 of the wonderful effects of the sea-wash 

 on stormy days. The flowers appear 

 in panicles at the ends of the shoots, 

 and in this case every growth is bearing 

 its feathery head of blossoms, so that 

 they arch out in a singularly graceful 

 manner. The Garden, nth October 

 1919. 



Bursaria spinosa thrives very well 

 in Devonshire and the West of England, 

 but elsewhere perhaps it would be best 

 to begin with it against a wall. 



BUTOMUS (Flowering Rush).~-B. 

 umbellatus is a handsome native water- 

 plant, often very fine in a rich, muddy 

 soil, and hardy and free to flower. 

 Common by some river-banks, and 

 growing with water-side weeds in 

 garden ponds and lakes, flowering in 

 summer rose-red in bold umbels. Divi- 

 sion. 



BUXUS (Box). -This beautiful bush 

 grows wild on some of our southern 

 chalk hills, and is much cultivated in 



