Index 



291 



Beauty, perfect examples of, 154 



Beard Tongue, Pentstemon acumina- 

 tus, 220 



Bear Grass, see Yucca 



Bed, nursery, 57; preparing 4, 5 



Beds, annual seed, 52, 53 



Bedstraw, Northern, Galium boreale, 

 178; Lady's, G. verum, 233; 

 white, G. Mollugo, 185 



Bee Balm, Monarda didyma, 278 



Beech, Purple-leaved, Fagus sylva- 

 tica, var. purpurea, 80 



Bees, 128; bumble bees in holly- 

 hocks, 128 



Beetle, aster, 127; oil, 126; rose, 124, 

 125 



Beetle, May, 54, 55 



Bellflower, see Campanula 



Bellflower, Japanese, see Platycodon 



Bellls perennis, English Daisy, 58, 

 169 



Belvedere, Kochia scoparia, 78; K. 

 tricophila, 78 



Berberis vulgaris, Common Bar- 

 berry, 232; var. atropurpurea, 

 Purple-leaved Barberry, 80, 232; 

 B. Thunbergii, Japanese Bar- 

 berry, 232 



Bibio fly, 120 



Bignonia radicans, Trumpet Creep- 

 er, 280 



Bittersweet, Climbing, Celastrus, 

 scandens, 233, 278 



Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta, 



2 37 

 Blanket Flower, see Gaillardia, 233, 



242, 294 



Blazing Star, see Liatris 

 Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis, 



249 

 Blight, aster, 132; larkspur, 114; 



Government remedy for larkspur, 



129; my remedy for, 130; Physos- 



tegia, 131, 132; carnation, 132 

 Bloom, length of, 36; succession of, 



9, 33; in blue beds, 34~3 6 

 Blooming, record of, 37 

 Blue annuals, 35, 224-229; edging 



plants, 82-83 

 Blue and white combinations, 35, 



36 

 Blue beds, 34; difficulties of, 35; 



white flowers in, 35 



Bluebells, see Lungwort 



Bluebells of Scotland, see Harebell 



Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium an- 



gustifolium, 214 

 Bluets, see Houstonia 

 Blue Flowers, 210-229 

 Blue Perennials, 210-211, 211-216, 



217-221, 222, 223-224 

 Blue Shrubs, 211, 221-222, 223 

 Blue Succory, see Catananche 

 Blue spring flowers, 36 

 Bocconia, B. cordata, 185 

 Boltonia, B. asteroides, 103, 197; 



B. l&vigata, 265; B. latisquama, 



223 



Boneset, see Thoroughwort 

 Book of Wisdom, 146, 147 

 Bordeaux mixture, 130; formula 



for, 129 

 Border plants for succession of 



bloom, 82 



Botanical names, use of, 70; mean- 

 ing of, 70 

 Bouncing Bet, Saponaria ojficinalis, 



263 

 Bowman's Root, Gillenia trifoliata, 



254 

 Boy Love, Artemesia Abrotanum, 



78, 184, 

 Bridal Wreath, Spirea prunifolia, 



166 

 Broom, Scotch, Cytisus scoparius, 



232; see Dyer's Greenwood 

 Brotherhood in forest, 113; in 



Nature, 132 



Browallia, B. demissa, 228 

 Browne, Sir Thomas, 59 

 Buddleya Lindleyana, 221 

 Bug, potato, 23, 126, 127 

 Burning Bush, Euonymous atropur- 



pureus, So, 216 

 Bush Honeysuckle, see Honeysuckle, 



Bush 

 Buttercup, Gold Cup, Ranunculus 



bulbosus, 234; tall, R. acris pi. fl., 



234 > 



Butterflies, 119 

 Butterfly Flower, Gaura Lind- 



heimeri, 187, 202, 267, 269 

 Butterfly Flower, Schizanthus Wi- 



setonensis, 269 

 Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuber osa t 



237 



