BUFFALO BERRY 



plant being more slender, less numerous, and arranged 

 in less compact clusters, those of the staminate plants 

 being rounded, and borne in dense clusters. 



Fred W. Card. 

 BUGBAITE is Cimicifttga. 



BUIST, BOBEBT. Florist, seedsman, and author, was 

 born at Cupar Fyfe, near Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 14, 

 ISIK, and died in Philadelphia, July 13, 1880. He was 

 trained at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, came to 

 America in August, 1828, and was employed for a time 

 by Henry Pratt. In 1830 he became the partner of Hib- 

 bert, who had established the first notable florist's busi- 

 ness in Philadelphia. He became noted for his suc- 

 cesses with roses, which were at that time second in 

 popular favor to the camellia with the Philadelphians. 

 The great improvement of the verbena was largely due 

 to him, and wa-; iimii.>.|i:if.-lv followed by the introduc- 

 tion into Americ'i 'I :i h-iiiM I class of bedding plants. 

 He introduced /' /.. /riwin to the trade, .and 



his sale of the <i' • i: nid to have been the first 



transaction of 111' I mi i' ■ ' iih-lird Iiy ocean telegraph. 

 He was the author of I'Im Ain.riraii Flower-Garden 

 Directory, in 1832, The ];"-.■ .M;iiin:,l. 1H44, and The 



Family Kitchen-Gardciiii- |.\ riL-liir,!. 1847), all of 



which were frequently rt-iNsur.!. aii'l iiijoyed a consid- 

 erable sale for man)' vears. An excellent account of his 

 life may be found in The Gardener's Monthly 22:372 

 (1888). The frontispiece of the bound volume for the 

 year is his portrait. W. u. 



BULB, BULBS A bulb is a thickened fleshy and 

 usually subterranean bud generally emitting roots from 

 Its under ide The function of the bulb is to carry 

 the plant over an unpropitious season as over winter 

 or a dr> period True Bulbs are either tnnicated, 

 formed m rings or layers, Uke those of hyacinths and 

 onions (Fig 283) or scaly, like those of liliums (Fig 

 2841 but as popularly understood and in commercial 

 pailance the term Bulbs applies to a large class of 

 floweimg and ornamental bulbous like plants in their 



283. Onion bulbs. 285. Corm or solid bulb of Qladiolu 



dormant condition, during which period they are col- 

 lected, dug, stored, shipped, sold and planted, like so 

 many potatoes, p'his class includes, in addition to the 

 true bulbs, many that are botanically known as conns . 



which are solid, as crocus and gladiolus (Fig. 285); 

 tubers which are succulent and have the buds or eyes- 

 near the surface, as the dahlia and potato (Fig. 286); 

 rhizomes, fleshy, creeping underground stems like cer- 



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tarn ins ginger and many wild plants (Fig 287 also. 

 Fig o3 p 3 ) pips the flowering crowns ot lily of the 

 vallev and certain other dormant fasciculated fleshy 

 roots like those of peonies ranunculus etc A wallet) 

 of bulbs IS shown m Fig 2S8 The tiue or feeding roots 

 grow generalh from the 1 ase of the bulb the stems 

 floweis n 1 t In ti 1 1 th 1 1 t the 1 ill i the 

 e\ Tl II 



cessor Vtt i tl 1 i 



bulb and th i t 1 i tl 

 The bulb is then m v d u 

 this state of rest lastin„ 

 SIX m nths that bulbs ai 

 tiansported easily and s t 

 nent it lequired after wl 

 foliage and flowers de-i ( 1 

 and perfection — conditioi 

 bulb had remained m its 1 1 

 Bulbous flowering plant 

 with flower loving people 

 and interest m growmg th 

 flowers of remarkable bea i 

 class of plants and man\ 

 giant The\ cjni] ri tan 



hide away or may be renn \ ed 1 



their places may be occupied by ( tl 

 ering plants Not the least am on t, 1 II 



is their ease of culture and the i I 



perfection with which their flowei s iie ( l i I lu lei 

 suitable conditions 



Among bulbous plants are many that are sufStiently 

 hardy to withstand the seventy of our northern winters 

 The "kinds that are suitable are nearly all dormant in 

 the fall, which is the proper time for planting them, and 

 they will flower the coming season. In March or earlier, 

 spring is ushered in with the blooming of snowdrops, 

 chionodoxas, anemones, scillas, crocus, winter aconites, 

 bulboeodiums, etc., followi 

 cinths, tulips, narcissus a 

 appear the unapproachabl' 

 dicentras, etc., followed in ; 

 with peonies, irises, heni' 

 tritomas, etc. All these ai 

 and parks. 



Gardeners usually think of bulbs as divided into two 

 classes, — hardy and tender, or those which stand freez- 

 ing and those which do not. There is a class from South 

 Africa known as Cape bulbs, which usually bloom in 

 the fall. There are now so many improved hybrids and 

 breeds that are crowding out the types, that the term. 



April witli brilliant hya- 

 -t-, of ,,ili,.rs. In April 

 lnli|i-, i....'t's dafeodils, 

 ■s^i. .11 until frost, notably 

 His, lilies, montbretias, 

 eful for gardens, lawns. 



