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cordial qualities of the herbs. Nat. ore!., 

 Borageworts [JBoraginaceae]. Linn., 5- 

 Pentandria 1-Monogynia.) 



Hardy plants. Biennials and annuals from 

 seed ; perennials by divisions ; common soil. 

 B. crassifo'lia (thick-leaved). 2. Pink. June, 

 Persia. 1822. Herbaceous perennial. 



Cre'tica (Cretan). 1. Blue. May. Crete. 1823. 



Herbaceous perennial. 



laxifio'ra (loose-flowered). I. Blue. June. 



Corsica. 1813. Trailing biennial. 



longifo'lia (long-leaved). 1. Blue. July. South 



of Europe. 1825. Annual. 



officina'lis (common). 3. Blue. August. Eng- 



land. Annual. 



alhiflo'ra (white-flowered). 2. White. 



August. England. Annual. 



orienta'lis (oriental). 2. Blue. June. Turkey. 



1752. Herbaceous perennial. 



BOEA'SSUS. (One of the names applied 

 to the spathe of the date-palm. Nat. ord., 

 Palms [Palmacea3], Linn., 22-Dioecia 6- 

 Hexandria.) 



Palm-wine, or toddy, a grateful beverage, is 

 the juice which flows from the wounded spathe of 

 this and some other palms. Stove tree. Seeds ; 

 peat and loam. Summer temp., 60 to 90" ; win- 

 ter, 60. 



B.flabeWfo'rmis (fan-leaved). 30. White, green. 

 E. Ind. 1771. 



BOEBO'NIA. (Named after one of the 

 Bourbon family. Nat. ord., Leguminous 

 Plants [Fabaeese]. Linn., 16-Monadelphia 

 6-Decandria. Belated to Scottia.) 



This genus and its allies Hovea, Lalage, Tem- 

 pletonia, and others of that group have always 

 been great favourites with gardeners. All green- 

 house evergreen shrubs, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Cuttings in sand, in April, under a bell- 

 glass, and in a close place, without artificial heat ; 

 peat and loam. Summer temp., 50 to 70 ; win- 

 ter, 40 to 45. 

 B, barba'ta (bearded). 4. Yellow. July. 1823. 



cilia'ta (hair-fringed). 3. Yellow. July. 



1816. 



corda'ta (heart-teaoed). 2. Yellow. August. 



1759- 



orena'ta (scolloped-/eaed). 6. Yellow. July. 



1774. 



ericifo'lia (heath-leaved). 2. Pink. January. 



1821. 



fanceola'ta (\ynce~leaved). 5. Yellow. July. 



1752. 



ruscifo'lia (ruscus-Jeawed). 3, Yellow. July. 



1790. 



MnJrvia (three-nerved). 6. Yellow, July. 



1759. 



undula'ta (wave-teavfd). 4. Yellow. July. 



1812. 



BOEDER is a name applied to that nar- 

 row division of the garden which usually 

 accompanies each side of a walk in the 

 kitchen-garden, and to the narrow bed 

 which is near to the garden-wall on one 

 side, and abuts on a walk on the other. 

 In fact, any bed which acts as a boundary 

 to a walk, or grass-plot, or the main 



quarters of a garden, may be properly de- 

 scribed as a border. 



1. Fruit- Borders. Next to the wall 

 should be a path, eighteen inches wide,, 

 for the convenierre of pruning and ga- 

 thering. Next to tnis path should be tba- 

 border, eight or nine feet wide ; and them 

 the broad walk, which should always en- 

 compass the main compartments of the 

 kitchen-garden. The whole of the breadth 

 from the wall to the edge of this main 

 walk should be excavated to the depth of 

 four feet; the bottom of the excavation 

 rammed hard ; brickbats and large stones 

 then put in, to the depth of one foot and 

 a half; and the remaining two feet ant 

 a half filled up with suitable soil. From 

 the under-drainage of brickbats, &c. T . 

 draining-pipes should be laid with an 

 outfall into some neighbouring ditch- 

 No fruit-tree will be healthy if it roots- 

 deep, or if its roots are surrounded by~ 

 superfluous water; that is, more water 

 than the soil will retain by its own che- 

 mical and capillary attractions. Shallow- 

 rooting crops do no harm to the trees, 

 grown on fruit-borders sufficient to re- 

 quire their total banishment. See FEUIT- 

 TEEES and STATIONS. 



2. Flower -Borders. These, like the 

 preceding, and, indeed, like every other 

 part of the garden not devoted to aquatic 

 and marsh plants, should be well drained. 

 In plotting them, it must also be remem- 

 bered that, if narrow, no art will impart to 

 them an aspect of boldness and grandeuiv 

 Indeed, narrowness of surface is inse- 

 parably connected with an impression 

 that the grounds are of limited extent ;. 

 and no disposal of the plants will remove 

 the littleness thus suggested. If the- 

 pleasure-grounds are small, narrow bor- 

 ders are permissible ; but, even then, the- 

 broader they are the less is the appear- 

 ance of meanness. Neatness must be 

 the presiding deity over flower-borders ;. 

 and no application of the hoe and rake, 

 no removal of decayed leaves, no tying, 

 up of straggling members, can be too un- 

 remitting. See FLOWEES. 



ForJdnfj-Bordcrs.^Q border, whether 

 tenanted by the roots of fruit-trees or 

 flowering -shrubs, should be ever dug 

 with the spade. The surface turned up 

 roughly with the fork, to benefit by the 

 winter frosts, and manure as necessary, 

 turned in with the same implement, are 

 sufficient. 



