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that are fine and perfect. They are bes 

 stored in the pods until required. Seed 

 beans will sometimes vegetate after bein<: 

 l\ept for eight or ten years, but are seldom 

 good for anything when more than t\v< 

 years old. 



Insects. See APHIS FAB.E. 



BEATO'NIA. (Named by Dr. Herber 

 after D. Beaton, a Scotch gardener; one 

 of the contributors to the Cottage Gar 

 dener and to this Dictionary. Nat. ord. 

 Irids [Iridacena]. Linn., \Q-Monaddpku 

 1-Triandria. Allied to Tigridia.) 



Greenhouse perennial bulbs. Offsets and seeds 

 the latter to be sown in a slight hotbed, in March 

 light, rich soil. To be taken up before frost 

 or covered up where they have grown, so as to 

 preserve them both from frost and wet. 

 U. atra'ta (dark-flowered). 2. Dark purple. Au- 

 gust. Mexico. 1843. 



curva'tu (waved-stalked). Purple. April. DC 



Monte. 1843. 



purpu'rea (purple-cowered). Purple. April 



Brazil. 1841. 



BEAUFO'ETIA. (Named after Mary 

 Duchess of Beaufort. Nat. ord., Myrtle - 

 llooms [Myrtacese]. Linn., IS-Poiyadel- 

 phia 2-Polyandria.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttincrs of half- 

 ripened shoots, under a glass, in sand, without 

 heat; loam and peat. Summer temp., 50 to 65 ; 

 winter, 38 to 48. 



B. carina'fa (keel-leaved). 3. Scarlet. N. Hol- 

 land. 1823. 



Dampie'ri (Dampier's). 2. Pink. May. Har- 



tog's Island. 



decussa'ta (decussated). 3. Scarlet. May. N. 



Holland. 1803. 



macroste'mon (long-stamened). Purple. July. 



Australia. 1843. 



purpu'rea (purple-flowered). Purple. July. 



Australia. 1841. 



spa'rso (scattered-teamed). 3. Red. N.Hol- 



land. 1803. 



sple'ndens (shining). 3. N.Holland. 1830. 



BEATJMO'NTIA. (Named after Mrs.fi ea u- 

 mont, of Bretton Hall. Nat. ord., Dog- 

 banes [Apocynacese]. Linn., 5-Pentan- 

 dria 1-Monogynia.) 



One of our first stove twiners, with large, white 

 trumpet-shaped flowers, produced in clusters at 

 the end of the shoots. They succeed best planted 

 out in the borders of a house, intermediate be- 

 tween a stove and a greenhouse. Cuttings of half- 

 ripened wood ; rich, lumpy loam and peat. Sum- 

 mer temp., 60 to 70 ; winter, 50 to 60. 

 . grandiflo'ra (large-flowered). 20. White. 

 June. E. Ind. 1820. 



longifo'lia (long-leaved). 20. White. E. 



Ind. 1818. 



BE'CIUM. (United to Ocymum.) 

 BED is a comprehensive word, applica- 

 ble to the detached space on which any 

 cultivated plants are grown. It is mos*> 

 correctly confined to small divisions, 



purposely restricted in breadth for tbe 

 convenience of hand-weeding, or other 

 reqiu'site culture, and, in the flower-gar- 

 den, for the promotion of beauty. This 

 involves the question of form, one of the 

 most difficult that is submitted to the 

 gardener, because few tastes agree as to 

 their estimate of the beautiful. Under 

 the head FLOWER-GAKDEN we shall give 

 a few general, and only general, obser- 

 vations upon this subject ; and here will 

 merely observe that, in making flower- 

 beds, they should always be proportioned 

 to the size of the plants which are to be 

 their tenants ; and that though, for large 

 masses of shrubs and trees, we have seen 

 rectangular forms so planted as to look 

 solid and grand, yet that we believe no 

 arrangement of dwarf-flowers would ever 

 make a separate square or parallelogram 

 bed of them otherwise than decidedly 

 ugly. 



LEDDING-IN is a mode of sowing seed. 

 In this method, the ground being dug, 

 and formed by alleys into beds, four or 

 five feet wide, each alley being a spade's 

 width or more between bed and bed, and 

 the earth being drawn off the top of the 

 bed with a rake or spade, half an inch or 

 an inch deep into the alleys, the seed is 

 then sown all over the surface of the 

 bed ; which being done, the earth in the 

 alleys is immediately cast over the bed, 

 again covering the seeds the same depth, 

 and the surface is raked smooth. 



The method of bedding-in sowing by 

 sifting is sometimes practised for very 

 small seeds of a more delicate nature, 

 hat require a very light covering of 

 earth when sown. To bury them as 

 shallow as possible, they are covered by 

 sifting fine earth over them out of a wire- 

 sieve. 



BEDDING-OUT is removing plants from 

 he pots in which they have been grow- 

 ng into the beds where they are intended 

 o remain during the summer and autumn. 

 The following is a list of flowers for 

 ledding-out, arranged according to their 

 olours, the first-named being the most 

 Iwarf : White. Yerbena pulchella, Lo- 

 )elia erinus alhus, Campanula pumila, 

 Campanula Carpatica alba, Senecio ele- 

 gans flore albo, White Ivy-leaved Gera- 

 ium, White-flowered, horse-shoe Gera- 

 lium, Phlox omniflora, Double White 

 Snapdragon, (Enothera taraxifolia, (E. 

 peciosa, Nierembergia calycina, Varie- 

 ated s.weet Alyssum, Calendula hybrida, 



