GENERA, ETC. HARDINESS. DORMANT. 



Spirea (.\.still.el * H (>t. to April 



Sprekelia*t!> T Sept. to April 



Steniliergia h Aug. to Oct. 



Tepophylea • H.H Aug. to Oct 



TiKri.liai T ct.toApn 



Trillium II ' ''■' '" -^l-"'; ' 



Triteleia I n.H ' M tn .\,ir,l 



Trit...iia* H.H \iii; l"N"V 



Tritoma ! H (i.t t.. .\|.nl 



Tropwuhim. Tuberous *1 H.H Vnj; 1.. I '.•.•, 



Tuberoses 'i T X..^ tn >la.v 



Tulip*: H \UK t..N..v 



Tydiea*! T i ''t t.. .\i.ii 



Urceolinat T (i.im April 



Vallotat T (i,t.t...s.pril 



Watsonia *i H.H iSept. to Dec. 



Zephyrauthes * ? H.H Aug. to April 



Peter Henderson & Co. 



BULBtNE (Greek. ^""">', n l.iill.i. LiUdceo'. Half- 

 hardy African plants. <• ■' > ' '1 -! "s. allied to Antheri- 



eura.'lnit practicalh u! - ...untry. Some of 



the species are bulli' i: . : i , ■ the general treat- 



BULBINfiLLA. See Chrysobactron. 



BULBOCbDIUM (Greek, woolly bulb). Lili<tce<e. A 

 halt dozen low. crocus-like bulbous plants of the Medi- 

 terraueau region and eastward, some spring-flowering 

 and others autumn-tloweriug. The spring-flowering spe- 

 cies, B. venium. is the only one in our gardens. It 

 is hardy, and demands the "same soil and location as 

 crocuses. 



y6mum, Linn. Fig. 291. Blooms in earliest spring, 

 before the Ivs. appear, the fls. resting nearly on the 

 ground : fls. rosT ptxrple, white-spotted on the interior, 

 1-3 from each bulb: Ivs. 

 broad and channelled. 

 B.M. 153 (cf.Fig. 291). 

 F.S. 11 : 1149.- Bulbs 

 should be taken up and 

 divided every 2 or 3 

 years. Plant m the fall. 

 Usually blooms in ad- 

 vance of the crocus. 

 L. H. B. 

 BULBOPHtLLUM 

 ((4reek, bu/b-hnf). 

 OnJtiddce(e, tribe IiJpi- 

 dendrecf. Many species 

 of trop. orchids, mostly 

 of the Old World, more 

 odd than nrnanicntal 



plants «,tl, , .t,.ut. 

 creepin^'iliiioiiii ,^iii ill 

 pseudobulbs lii-aring 

 one or two stiff Ivs. : lip 

 jointed, moving when 

 touched, sometimes 

 hairy: fls. in lacemes 

 or spikes, or solitary. 

 Reipiire warm temper- 



0( MiW 



riff. 



1 blocks or trunks of tc in- 

 le of the largest of on In U 

 :rees, and its fls. emittni.,' tin 

 see G.C. II. 11: 41, and 1 



They thrive or 

 Reichb. f.,is or 

 twining about 1 

 ceivable odor ; 

 B.M. 6567. 



L6bbii, Lindl. Leaf solitary, broadly lance-elliptic : 

 scape 1-fld., arising from the side of the pseudobulb, 

 shorter than the If.: fls. large and spreading (2 in. 

 across ) ; sepals lanceolate and acuminate, yellow, more or 

 less marked with purple ; petals smaller, streaked purple ; 

 lip cordate-ovate, yellow and orange-dotted, not bearded. 

 Java. B.M. 4.532. — Flowers in early summer. Once cata- 

 logued by Pitcher & Manda. 



BULL, EPHEAIM W. The introducer of the Concord 

 grape Lived a long, quiet, and useful life in Concord, 



The flrst tiiiit 

 exact origin is 

 house in which 

 boys brought 

 scattered them 

 from which Mr 

 He planted set 

 fruited in 184!i 

 It soon becaii 

 America, as it 

 ness to ran-v t 

 in the lainl. It 



E 195 



95. in his ninetieth year. 

 rt-atcst fvent in the early 



tilt- introduction, early 

 III.' iioi-iliern fox-grape. 

 - ..I.taiiicd in 1849. Its 

 I). Mr. Bull bought the 



death. That year some 

 some wild grapes, and 

 . A seedling appeared 

 bunch of fruits In 1843. 

 I. and a resulting plant 

 as named the Concord, 

 grape in all 



hardi- 



ii.iitli to '^ Illinois w.-T i.i l.\i- — lliis species and B. 

 Ijjeioldei, Pers., are the hardiest. They have proved 

 hardy in very sheltered positions even in Massachu- 

 setts ; besides the.se, B. angiisti folia, Nutt., and B. 

 lenax, Willd., are the most common species in the S. 

 states. B. Pdlmeri, Rose, from Mex., is illustrated in 

 (J F 7:196. Alfred Rehder. 



BUPHANE 



tti-oi/er. alluding to poi- 

 iM iw. Two or three South 

 known in this country. 

 my red fls. in an umbel. 

 ual and narrow, spread- 

 . s. long and sword-like. 



sonous propeili. i ./ 



African bulb- i 



They are laru. 



Perianth tulml n _ i 



ing: stamens o. t\-. utd 



thick. See Baker, Amai } llidc». 



dlBticha, Herb. {B. toxicdria. Herb., Bamdnthus 

 toxicdrius, Thnjib.). Bulb, 6-9 in. in diam. : Ivs. sev- 

 eral, distichous, 1-2 ft. long : peduncle or scape stout 

 (6-12 in. high) and solid, compressed, glaucous, bearing 

 a dense umbel. B.M. 1217. -Sparingly offered in this 

 country. Lvs. said to be very poisonous to cattle in 

 S. Afr."; bulb furnishes arrow poison for the natives. 



Another species is B. cilidri.i, Herb., with fewer, 

 shorter lvs., and shorter peduncle, bearing 50-100 fls. 

 Not known to be in the Amer. trade. L H B 



