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plants can be set out-doors without protection. When the 

 weather has become somewhat settled, the plants may be 

 planted out, and by fall they will be two to three feet high. 



Black Boy. See Xanthorrhcea. 



Bladder-nut Tree. See Staphylea. 



Bladder-pod or -seed. See Vesicaria. 



Bladder Senna. See Colutea. 



Blakea. Melastomacece. 



Increased by cuttings taken from shoots that are about 

 ripe ; plant in a pot of sand, and plunge in a moist heat, 

 under a hand-glass. 



Blandfordia. Liliacece. 



Propagated by seeds and offsets, or by division of the old 

 plants, which must be done when repotting. 



Blazing Star. See Liatris. 



Bleeding Heart. See Dicentra. 



Blephilia. Labiatce. 



Increased by division of the roots in early spring. 



Bletia. Orchidece. 



Propagated by divisions, which should be made after the 

 plants have finished flowering, or previous to their starting 

 into growth. These are terrestrial, and their flat, roundish 

 pseudo-bulbs are usually under ground. They bear division 

 well, especially B. hyacinthina, which may be cut up into 

 pieces consisting of a single pseudo-bulb. (See under Or- 

 chids.) 



Blood Flower. See Haemanthus. 



Blood-root. See Sanguinaria and Haemodorum. 



Blueberry. See Vaccinium. 



Blue-eyed Grass. See Sisyrinchium. 



Blumenbachia. Loasece. 



Propagated by seeds sown in pots in spring, and placed in 

 a gentle heat. 



Blumia. See Saurauja. 



Bobartia. Iridece. 



Propagated by separating the offsets during autumn. 



Bocconia. Papaveracece . 



Some species grow well from seed. By young suckers, 

 taken from established plants during summer. Cuttings 



