Index 
Beauty, perfect examples of, 154 
Beard Tongue, Pentstemon acumina- 
lus, 220 
Bear Grass, see Yucca 
Bed, nursery, 57; preparing 4, 5 
Beds, annual seed, 52, 53 
Bedstraw, Northern, Galium boreale, 
178; Lady’s, G. verum, 233; 
white, G. Mollugo, 185 
Bee Balm, Monarda didyma, 278 
Beech, Purple-leaved, Fagus sylva- 
tica, var. purpurea, 80 
Bees, 128; bumble bees in holly- 
hocks, 128 
Beetle, aster, 127; oil, 126; rose, 124, 
125 
Beetle, May, 54, 55 
Bellflower, see Campanula 
Bellflower, Japanese, see Platycodon 
Bellis perennis, English Daisy, 58, 
169 
Belvedere, Kochia scoparia, 78; K. 
tricophila, 78 
Berberis vulgaris, Common Bar- 
berry, 232; var. atropurpurea, 
Purple-leaved Barberry, 80, 232; 
B. Thunbergii, Japanese Bar- 
berry, 232 
Bibio fly, 120 
Bignonia radicans, Trumpet Creep- 
er, 280 
Bittersweet, Climbing, 
scandens, 233, 278 
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta, 
Celastrus, 
2 
Blanket Flower, see Gaillardia, 233, 
242, 204 
Blazing Star, see Liatris - 
Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis, 
24. 
Blight, aster, 132; larkspur, 114; 
Government remedy for larkspur, 
129; my remedy for, 130; Physos- 
tegia, 131, 132; carnation, 132 
Bloom, length of, 36; succession of, 
9, 333 in blue beds, 34-36 
Blooming, record of, 37 ; 
Blue annuals, 35, 224-229; edging 
plants, 82-83 tees 
Blue and white combinations, 35, 
6 
Blue beds, 34; difficulties of, 35; 
white flowers in, 35 
291 
Bluebells, see Lungwort 
Bluebells of Scotland, see Harebell 
Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium an- 
gustifolium, 214 
Bluets, see Houstonia 
Blue Flowers, 210~229 
Blue Perennials, 210-211, 211-216, 
217-221, 222, 223-224 
Blue Shrubs, 211, 221-222, 223 
Blue Succory, see Catananche 
Blue spring flowers, 36 
Bocconia, B. cordata, 185 
Boltonia, B. asterotdes, 103, 1973 
B. levigata, 265; B. latisquama, 
223 
Boneset, see Thoroughwort 
Book of Wisdom, 146, 147 
Bordeaux mixture, 130; 
for, 129 
Border plants for succession of 
bloom, 82 
Botanical names, use of, 70; mean- 
ing of, 70 
Bouncing Bet, Saponaria officinalis, 
263 
Bowman’s Root, Gillenia trifoliata, 
254 
Boy Love, Artemesia Abrotanum, 
formula 
78, 184, 
Bridal Wreath, Spirea prunifolia, 
166 
Broom, Scotth, Cytisus scoparius, 
232; see Dyer’s Greenwood 
Brotherhood 
Nature, 132 
Browallia, B. demissa, 228 
Browne, Sir Thomas, 59 
Buddleya Lindleyana, 221 
Bug, potato, 23, 126, 127 
Burning Bush, Euonymous atropur- 
pureus, 80, 216 
Bush Honeysuckle, see Honeysuckle, 
Bush 
Buttercup, Gold Cup, Ranunculus 
bulbosus, 234; tall, R. acris pl. fi., 
234 
Butterflies, 119 
Butterfly Flower, Gaura Lind- 
heimeri, 187, 202, 267, 269 
Butterfly Flower, Schizanthus Wi- 
setonensis, 269 
Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa, 
237 
in forest, 113; in 
