BEG 



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BEE 



, grandifto'ra (large-flowered). 20. White. 



June. East Indies. 1820. 

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



Indies. 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 most 

 correctly confined to small divisions, 

 purposely restricted in breadth for the 

 convenience of hand- weeding, or other 

 requisite culture, and in the flower gar- 

 den for the promotion of beauty. This 

 involves the question of form, one the 

 most difficult that is submitted to the 

 gardener ; because few tastes agree as to 

 their estimate of the beautiful. Under 

 the head FLOWER GARDEN, 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- 



BEDDING- 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, that 

 require a very light covering of earth when 

 sown. To bury them as shallow as pos- 

 sible, they are covered by sifting fine 

 earth over them out of a wire sieve. 



BEDDING-OUT is removing plants from 

 the pots in which they have been grow- 

 ing into the beds where they are intended 

 to remain during the summer and autumn. 

 The following is a list of flowers for 



bedding-out, arranged according to their' 

 colours, the first-named being the most 

 dwarf : White. Verbena pulchella, 

 Lobelia erinus albus, Campanula pumila, 

 Campanula Carpatica alba, Senccio ele- 

 gans flore albo, White Ivy-leaved Gera- 

 nium, "White-flowered horse-shoe Gera- 

 nium, Phlox omniflora, Double White 

 Snapdragon, (Enothera taraxifolia, (E. 

 speciosa, Nierembergia calycina, varie- 

 gated sweet Alyssum, Calendula hybrida, 

 White Clarkia, Petunia ny ctaginiflora ; of 

 Verbenas, the Bride and White Perfec- 

 tion, and White Salvia patens. Scarlet. 

 Of Verbenas, Boul de Feu, Inglefield 

 scarlet, or fulgens, Melindre's latifolia, 

 Satellite and Emperor of Scarlets; of 

 Geraniums, Shrubland Scarlet, Tom 

 Thumb, Improved Frogmore, Gem of 

 Scarlets, Royalist and Compactum. Pur- 

 ple. Of Verbenas, Walton's Emma, 

 Heloise, Venosa, and Sabina ; Petunia 

 phoanicea, Lobelia unidentata, Lantana 

 Sellowii, and Phlox Drammondii. Pink. 

 Saponaria calabrica, Silene Shafts, Si- 

 lene pendula, Silene compacta; of Ge- 

 raniums the Pink Ivy-leaf, Mangle's 

 variegated Pink, Pink Nosegay, Judy, 

 Lucia rosea and Diadematum ; AiiagaUis 

 carnea ; of Verbenas, Miller's Favourite, 

 Beauty Supreme, Duchess of Northum- 

 berland, and Standard of Perfection. Yel- 

 low. Tagetes tenuifolia, Sanvitalia pro- 

 cumbens; of Calceolarias, Integrifolia, 

 Rugosa, Kayii, Viscosissima, Corymbosa 

 and Amplexicaule ; Orange African Ma- 

 rigold, Double Yellow French Marigold 

 and Coreopsis lanceolata. ' Blue. Lobe- 

 lia ramosa, Cineraria amelloides, Salvia 

 chamaedrioides, and Isotoma axillaris. 



BEDEGUAR. See Cynips rosce. 



BEDFO'RDIA. (Named in honour of 

 the Duke of Bedford. Nat. ord., Compo- 

 sites [Asterace]. Linn., \-Syngenesia, 

 \-JEqualis}. Allied to Cacalia. Green- 

 house evergreen shrub. Cuttings a little 

 dried before inserting them in rough 

 sandy soil ; sand, peat, loam, and brick- 

 rubbish, in equal proportions. Summer 

 temp., 55 to 70; winter, 40 to 45; 

 and almost dry. 

 B. salici'na (willow-like). Yellow. April. 1820. 



BEE. (Apis.} All the species of this 

 insect are friendly to the gardener, for 

 they all aid in impregnating his flowers, 

 many of which without their aid would 



