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BOTJVARDIA. 



[Named after Dr. Charles Bouvard, formerly a Superintendant of the Jardin 

 du Roi, at Paris.] 



The species and varieties are all shrubby green-house 

 plants, but, when raised from cuttings and planted out in 

 the open ground, flower all the season ; and small plants, 

 three inches high, will begin to bloom and continue to 

 grow and blossom until they have attained the height of 

 two feet by October, forming fine bushy plants ; the flow- 

 ers are rose, crimson, and scarlet. Their dazzling rich- 

 ness of color, and pleasing form of flower, make them 

 the most useful plants we have for cut-flowers or bou- 

 quets. I think there can be no difficulty in preserving 

 the plants by taking up and potting them, after the foli- 

 age is blackened by frost, and placing them in a dry cellar 

 through the winter. 



The species J9. triphylla and IB. versicolor are Mexican 

 and South American plants ; the former with scarlet, the 

 other with red flowers. There is no bedding plant more 

 desirable for the borders than this. 



BEACH YCOME, SWAN DAISY. 

 Brachycome iberidifolia. This is a beautiful hardy 

 annual, in flower from July to September; of dwarf 

 habit, eight or ten inches high. Flowers, various deli- 

 cate shades of blue, lilac, and white, with brownish-black 

 centre. A suitable plant to be grown in masses ; foliage 

 also delicate. 



BRIZA, QUAKING GRASS. 



[From a Greek word, to nod. in allusion to the hanging spikelets.] 



Briza maxima, is cultivated as a border-flower; the 

 spikelets of the grass are curious and elegant, and when 

 dried help to make up a bouquet of immortal flowers. 



