188 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
BOUVARDIA. 
(Named after Dr. Charles Bouvard, formerly a Superintendant of the Jardin 
du Roi, at Paris.) 
The species and varieties are all shrubby green-house 
plants, but, when raised from cuttings and planted out in 
the open ground, flower all the season; and small plants, 
three inches high, will begin to bloom and continue to 
grow and blossom until they have attained the height of 
two feet by October, forming fine bushy plants; the flow- 
ers are rose, crimson, and scarlet. Their dazzling rich- 
ness of color, and pleasing form of flower, make them 
the most useful plants we have for cut-flowers or bou- 
quets. I think there can be no difficulty in preserving 
the plants by taking up. and potting them, after the foli- 
age is blackened by frost, and placing them ina dry cellar 
through the winter. 
The species B. triphylla and B. versicolor are Mexican 
and South American plants; the former with scarlet, the 
other with red flowers. There is.no bedding plant more 
desirable for the borders than this. 
BRACHYCOME.—Swan Darsy. 
Brachycéme iberidifélia.—This is a beautiful hardy 
annual, in flower from July to September; of dwarf 
habit, eight or ten inches high. Flowers, various deli- 
cate shades of blue, lilac, and white, with brownish-black 
centre. A suitable plant to be grown in masses; foliage 
also delicate. 
BRIZA.—Quaxine Grass. 
(From a Greek word, to nod, in allusion to the hanging spikelets.1 
Briza maxima, is cultivated as a border-flower; the 
spikelets of the grass are curious and elegant, and when 
dried help to make up a bouquet of immortal flowers. 
