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GENERAL INDEX. 



recommended to the power or faculty of taste ; 

 the reverse of ugliness ; the primary, or most 



Eral object of love or admiration. (Jeffrey, in 

 , Encyc, Brit.) That which gives pleasure 

 2 mind in objects of sense. (M.A. Schimmel- 

 penninck, chap, i.) 



Though, in the common colloquial acceptation 

 of the term beauty, it is applied only to such ob- 

 jects as delight the senses of vision and hearing ; 

 yet, in the strict and literal sense of the word, a 

 fine view, a harmonious concert, the perfume of 

 a rose, or the taste of an anana, are each possess- 

 ed of beauty. 



The authors quoted, and also Alison, Stewart, 

 and Knight, have discussed the subject of beauty 

 in a clear and satisfactory manner, by which it 

 appears that the great error of preceding writers 

 on the subject, consisted in supposing that there 

 was only one kind of beauty ; whereas, there are 

 many kinds, though some are much more general 

 and universal than others. Nothing but mind 

 can either please or disgust mind ; and therefore 

 the beauty that we see in objects depends, as 

 D'Alembert has observed, on what is within our- 

 selves. Man is possessed of the origin of every 

 taste and refined enjoyment naturally ; but every 

 one of these, from the lowest sense to the highest, 

 requires cultivation before it become capable 

 of conferring much intellectual gratification. 

 Though in the nature of things, therefore, there 

 may be an absolute or universal beauty ; yet, 

 practically, all beauty may be said to be relative 

 to the state of man in different countries and 

 ages, and in different degrees of civilisation and 

 refinement. Fashion, therefore, or the prevailing 

 mode* of the day, will by the great number of 

 persons, always be esteemed the true criterion of 

 beauty. 



Beauty of kitchen-garden scenery, 2355; of the 

 flower-garden, 6201 ; of landscape scenery, 7157. 



Bechstein, D. J. M. his works on gardening, page 

 1127. A. D. 1818. 



Becker, William, Glo. his work on gardening, page 

 1125. A. D. 1795. 



Beckett, the seat of the Rev. Lord Barrington, 

 near Farringdpn, in Gloucestershire, 326. 



Beckmannia, trian. dig. and gramineae, a H. an. 

 Eur. a grass of the easiest culture. 



JBeckmann, John, 75, his writings relative to gar- 

 dening, page 1124. A. D. 1781. 



Bcckstedt, 3. Kp. his works on gardening, page 1125. 

 A. D. 1795. 



Beddington, a seat in Surrey, 7528. 



Bedfordshire, gardens and residences of, 7549. 



Bed-straw, see Galium. 



Bee, see Apis. 



Bee-house, see Apiary. 



Beech, see Fagus. 



Beechwood Park, Hertfordshire, 7544. 



Beet, 3731. see Beta. 



Beet (Sax.), to boot or help, a term used by gar- 

 deners in Scotland for filling up blanks in plant- 

 ations. To beet up, is with them synonymous 

 with to plant up, or fill up with plants, 6881. 



Begonia, monoec. polyan. and hydrocharidea?, S. tr. 

 peren. and bien. S. Amer. succulent plants which 

 grow readily in sandy loam, and cuttings root 

 freely in the same soil. 



Bejaria, dodec. monog. and rhodoraceae, a G. tr. 

 Florida, which thrives best in sandy peat, and 

 may be increased by layers and cuttings; the 

 latter planted in sand under a bell-glass in a little 

 peat. 



Belan, a seat in Kildare, 7657. 



Belchamp Hill, a seat in the county of Durham, 

 7584. 



Belgrave, William, his works on gardening, page 

 lISl. A. D. 1755! 



Belle-vue, a seat in Hampshire, 7594. 



Bell-flower, see Campanula. 



Bell-glass, a curvilinear utensil, of glass, in one 

 piece ; called a receiver among chemists. It is 

 used for covering cuttings of plants, and differs 

 from a hand-glass, in the latter being larger and 

 composed of several pieces glazed in a frame, 



Bellew, a seat in Galway, 7672. 



Bellis, daisy, syngen. polyg. super, and corymbi- 



fereas, H, tr. and an. Eur. of the easiest culture. 

 Bellisle, a seat in Fermanagh, 7677. 

 Bellium, syngen. polyg. super, and corymbifereae, H. 



peren. and an . Italy, rock-work plants of common 



culture. 



Bellows for fumigation, used in gardening, 1482. 



Belmont, a seat in Herefordshire, 7568. 



Belmont, a seat in Staffordshire, 7570. 



Beloeil, a fine villa near Paris, which before the 

 revolution, belonged to the celebrated Prince de 

 Ligne, 169. 



Belon, Peter, a French writer on gardening, page 

 1115. A. D. 1553. 



Belvidere, a seat in Kent, 7537. 



Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire, 7578. 



Belvoir, a seat in Down, 7683. 



Belvue (pretty vie\*, Fr.), a very common name of 

 country-seats in most parts of the world. 



Benard, Mons. de, author of some papers on gar- 

 dening, published in Mmoires de la Socit du 

 Seine et Oise, during the present century, 185. 



Bengal, its circumstances as to gardening, 500. 



Bengalore, a royal residence with celebrated gar- 

 dens in the East Indies, 461. 



Benham House, Berkshire, 7561. 



Bcnigni, Fortunato, his work on gardening, page 

 1128. A. D. 1813. 



Benjamin-tree, laurus benzoin. 



Benningsen, General Von, a native of Germany, 

 and general of cavalry in the Russian service ; 

 a warm patron of arts and sciences, who had a 

 fine seat and botanic garden near Wilna, which 

 was burnt to the ground and destroyed in the 

 retreat of 1812, 283. 



Bent-grass, see Agrostis. 



Bentley Priory, Middlesex, 7521. 



Bents, bulrushes, see Juncus. 



Berardia, syngen. polyg. equal, and cynarocepha- 

 lea?, H. peren. Italy, of common culture. 



Berberis, barberry, hexan. monog. and berberideae, 

 H. tr. Eur. and Amer. of robust growth and 

 easy culture, propagated by suckers and seeds. 



Berberis vulgaris, the common barberry, 4620. 



Berceau (cradle, arch, Fr.), an arbor or bower, 

 formed in horticulture and arboriculture as a 

 place of repose, see Arbor. 



Berckheya, syng. polyg. frust. G. tr. and bien. 

 C. B. S. which grow freely in loam and peat, 

 and root readily in common earth under a hand- 

 glass. 



Berger, Ch. Glo., his works on gardening, page 

 1126. A. D. 1802. 



Bergius, Peter Jonas, his work on gardening, page 

 1130. A. D. 1780. 



Berkshire, gardens and residences of, 7560. 



Bernstein, J. Glo., his work on gardening, page 1125. 

 A. D. 1793. 



Beroot, a seat of the Emir Facardine, near Jeru- 

 salem, in the 17th century, 457. 



Berries, grown in horticulture, as edible fruits, 

 4595. 



Berrington, a seat in Herefordshire, 7568. 



Berry-bearing alder, rhamnus frangula. 



Berry-gatherer, 1356. 



Bertholon, , his works on gardening, page 



1120. A. D. 1800. 



Bertrand, Francis, his works on gardening, page 

 1118. A. D. 1757. 



Bertrand, Mons. of Bruges, his villa, 122. 



Bertuch, M. his work on gardening, page 1127. 

 A. D. 1821. 



Berwickshire, gardens of, 7620. 



Besca (old Latin), a spade or shovel. 



Besl. eyst., Besleri hortus eystettensis. 



Besleria, didyn. angios, and scrophularineae, S. tr. 

 W. Ind. handsome plants, of easy culture in rich 

 light soil. Cuttings strike freely in rotten tan, 

 without any protection. 



Besnier, a French writer on gardening, page 



1116. A. D. 1705. 



Besom, different kinds of, used in gardening, 

 1321. 



Beta, beet, pent. dig. and chenopodeae, a G. bien. 

 Mad. H. peren. Hung, and H. bien. Eur. and 

 Brit, of easy culture in sandy loam, and propa- 

 gated by seeds. 



Betacicla, the white beet, a spinaceous plant, 3779. 

 It is from the roots of this last species that the 

 French and Germans obtained sugar with so 

 much success during the late war. The follow- 

 ing was the ordinary process : Reduce the roots 

 to a pulp, by pressing them between two rough 

 cylinders ; put the pulp in bags and press out the 

 liquor it contains ; boil this liquor, precipitate 

 the saccharine matter by quick-lime; pour off* 

 the liquor ; add to the residuum a solution of 

 sulphuric acid, and boil again ; the lime uniting 

 with the acid, is got rid of by straining ; and tke 



