GENERAL 



Bane- berry (bana, Sax. a murderer, and berry),, 

 actasa spicata. 



Banfshire, gardens of, 7640. 



Banisteria, decan. trig, and malpighiacea?, S. tr. 

 Araer. and W. Ind. which grow well in sandy 

 loam, and cuttings of ripe wood root freely under 

 a hand-glass in sand. 



Banksia, tetran. monog. and proteacea?, G. tr. New 

 Holl. soil one third peat, one third loam, and one 

 third sand, with the pots well drained, and the 

 plants never let flag for want of water, as they will 

 seldom recover. Cuttings must be well ripened 

 before they are taken off, cut at a joint, and 

 planted in pots of sand without shortening the 

 leaves ; cover with hand-glasses, but do not 

 plunge in heat. 



Banyan. tree (priest's tree, Ind.), ficus religiosus. 



Baptisia, decan. monog. and leguminosea?, H. peren. 

 N*. Araer. which grow well in good garden soil, 

 and are propagated by seeds, or (.though slowly) 

 by dividing the roots. 



Barbadoes bastard-cedar, bubroma guazuma. 



Barbadoes cherry, see "Malpighia. 



Barbarea, winter-cress, tetrad, siliq. and cruciferea?, 

 H. peren. Brit, which will grow in any soil, and 

 may be propagated by seeds, or dividing the plant. 



Barbarea vulgaris, the common winter-cress, 4050. 



Barberry (barb, a beard, and berry), see Ber- 

 beris. 



Bardie, Giuseppe, his work on fungi, page 1128. 

 A. D. 1S08. . 



Barganny Park, Ayrshire, 7627. 



Bark for the use of tanners, trees from which it is 

 usually or may be obtained, 659. and 4754. 



Bark, tanners', how to manage for horticultural 

 purposes, 1972. 



Bark-stove, or moist-stove ; a hot-house in which 

 the mass of bark, earth, sand, or other materials 

 in which the pots containing the plants are 



E lunged, or the plants themselves planted, is 

 eated from below j or by the fermentation of 

 the bed of materials, as well as by the atmosphere 

 of the house. 



Bark-stove, used in horticulture, its construction 

 and management, see Pine-stove. 



Bark-stove, used in floriculture, its construction for 

 growing or flowering plants, 6177. 



Bark-stove, used in floriculture, its general man- 

 agement, 6214. 



Bark-stove, used in floriculture for propagation, its 

 culture, 1629. 



Barking-irons, for the garden, 1341 ; for the forest, 

 1343. 



Barleria, didyn. angios, S. tr. bien. and G. peren. 

 India and Amer. all which grow in loam and 

 peat, with a little rotten dung, and cuttings root 

 freely under a hand-glass. 



Barley, see Hordeum. 



Barmeath, a seat in Lowth, 7664. 



Barnbarrow House, Wigtonshire, 7626. 



Bambougle Park, Linlithgowshire, 7632. 



Barnes, Thomas, a name assumed by Sir John Hill, 

 as an author on British gardening, page 1105. 

 A. D. 1759. 



Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire, 7563. 



Barnton, a seat in Midlothian, 360. 



Barometer, as a means of foreknowing the weather, 

 1279. 



Baron Hill, a seat in Anglesea, 7603. 



Baron's Court, a seat in Tyrone, 7679. 



Barosma, pentan. moncg. and diosmea?, G. tr. 

 C. B. S. which grow well in sandy peat, and cut- 

 tings of ripened wood root readily in sand under a 

 bell-glass. 



Barrenwort, see Epimedium. 



Barringtonia, monad, polyand. and myrtiacea?, a 

 S. tr. E. Ind. a very tine plant, scarce, and sup- 

 posed difficult to manage; soil two thirds loam, 

 and one third peat kept moist, and cuttings of 

 ripe wood taken off at a joint, and put in a pot of 

 sand under a hand-glass, without shortening the 

 leaves, will root readily. (Sweet.) 



Barrington Hall, Gloucestershire, 7565. 



Barrow, different sorts of, 1441. 



Barrow watering-engine, 1450. 



Barruel-Beauvert, his works on gardening, page 

 1119. A. D. 1782. 



Barth, a warm place, or pasture. 



Bartholina, gynan. monan. and orchidea?, a G. 

 peren. C. B. S. which thrives best in sandy loam 

 and peat, with a little water when not in a grow- 

 ing state; it is propagated by dividing the 

 root. 



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Barton (Sax.), a backside or backlying field. / &6(-i/?f 



Bathorne House, Durham, 7584. V- *~" t4 



Bartonia, icos. monog. and rosacea?, G. bien. Mis- 

 souri, of easy culture, and propagated by seeds. 



Bartsia, tetrad, siliq. and scrophularinese, H. peren. 

 N. Amer. which are rather difficult to preserve, 

 and require a shady border of peat earth ; or to 

 be planted in pots of the same soil, and kept 

 moist : and H. an. Brit which grow freely in a 

 sandy soil. 



Base-rocket, reseda lutea. 



Basella, pentan. trig, and chenopodea?, S. bien. and 

 an. of common culture. 



Basella alba and rubra, as spinage plants, 4328. 



Basil (Basil, a town in Switzerland), see Ocy- 

 mum. 



Bass mats, (from the Russian bast-bark), cloth of 

 liber, or inner bark, used in gardening, 1506. 



Bassia, dodec. monog. and sapotea?, S. tr. E. Indies, 

 which grow freely in light loam, or loam and 

 peat ; and ripened cuttings strike under a hand 

 glass in sand. 



Bassmgbourne Hall, Durham, 7584. 



Bastard balm, ste Melittis. 



Bastard cabbage-tree, see Geoffroya. 



Bastard cedar, see Cedrela. 



Bastard hare's ear, phyllis nobla. 



Bastard indigo, see Amorpha. 



Bastard lupine, see Lupinastcr. 



Bastard mangeneel, see Cameraria. 



Bastard orpine, see Andrachne. 



Bastard pimpemell, centunculus minimus. 



Bastard toad-flax, see Thesium. 



Bastard vervain, see Stachytarpheta. 



Bastard vetch, see Phaca. 



Bustard, "William, Esq. a British writer on garden- 

 ing, page 1108. A. D. 1777. 



Bast/en, Jean Francois, his works on gardening, 

 page 1121. A. D. 1805. 



Batschia, pentan. monog. and boragineae, H. peren. 

 N. Amer. which grow well in common soil, and 

 are increased by seeds, or dividing the roots. 



Bauera, polyan. dig. and diosmea?, G. tr. N. S. W. 

 which grow in loam and peat, and cuttings root 

 readily in the same soil under a bell-glass. 



Bauhinia, mountain ebony, decan. monog. and le- 

 guminosea?, S. tr. E. and" "W. Ind. mostly climbers 

 which thrive well in light loam, and cuttings 

 between old and young, do well under a bell-glass 

 in sand, in a moist heat, 



Bauman, F. G, his works on gardening, page 1119. 

 A. D. 1788. 



Baven, faggots of branches and spray, with their 

 ends untnmmed. 



Bavis Mount, a seat in Hampshire, 7592. 



Bawd-money, meum athamanticum. 



Bay, see Laurus. 



Bayham Abbey, a seat in Sussex, 7531. 



Bazin, Giles Augustin, his works on gardening, 

 page 1117. A. D. 1741. 



Beale, Dr. John, a British author on gardening, 

 page 1101. A. D. 1666. 



Beale, John, a British author on gardening, page 

 1100. A. D. 1657. 



Bean, see Vicia. 



Bean-tree, see Zygophyllum. 



Bean-trefoil, menyanthes trifoliata, see Meny. 

 anthes. 



Bearbind, see Convolvulus. 



Bear's breach, see Acanthus. 



Bear's ear, sanicle, see Sanicula. 



Bearberry, arbutus uva-ursi. 



Bearde, de l'Abbaye, his Essay on Agriculture 

 page 1118. A. D 1769. 



Beaudesart, a seat in Staffordshire, 7570. 



Beaufortia, polyadelph. icosan. and myrtiacea? 

 G. tr. N. Hoi. soil, two thirds peat and one third 

 sandy loam, and cuttings from nearly ripened 

 wood, strike root freely in sand under a bell- 

 glass. 



Beaumanor, a seat in Leicestershire, 7573. 



Beaumont, Sir Harry, a name assumed by Mr. 

 Spence, and affixed to letters from China, transl 

 lated from those of the Jesuits, and descriptive 

 of the emperor's gardens, 470. 



Beaumont, Simon de, a distinguished citizen of 

 Holland in the 17th century, a great encourager 

 of botany and gardening, who had a fine garden 

 at Beverning, 13:?. 

 Beaumont Lodge, Berkshire, 7561. 



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