ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLANTS 225 
BELLIS, “Daisy.” (N.O. Composite.) 
A good edging plant, 3 inches high, requiring rich soil, but 
succeeding well in the shade. Propagated by division or seed. 
B. grandiflora alba. White. 
B. „ Rosea. Red. 
BOCCONIA, “Plume Poppy.” (N.O. Papaveracese.) 
Tall, handsome plant with deeply cut-out glaucous leaves. This 
plant requires a great deal of room, but is not particular as to soil or 
situation. It grows 5 to 8 feet high. Propagated by division in 
spring. 
B. cordata. Plumes of creamy flowers with red-brown stalks 
and stamens. 
B. microcarpa purpurea. Light buff flowers, followed by 
purplish seed vessels. 
BOLTONIA, “False Starwort.” (N.O. Composite.) 
A showy plant in late summer, not unlike a Michaelmas daisy, 
but with smooth glaucous stems. A good plant for a shady border. 
Propagated by division in spring. 
B. asteroides. Flesh colour, 3 feet high, flowering in August. 
B . glastifolia. Pink, 18 inches long, flowering in September. 
B. leevigata. Pink, with double flowers, 5 feet high, flowering 
in August. 
BORAGO, “Borage.” (N.O. Boraginacese. ) 
Flowers of easy culture, pale blue, and preferring a rich, moist 
loam, and, with the exception of laxiflora, almost too coarse for a 
border. 
B. laxiflora. Pale blue flowers, 12 inches high, flowering May 
to August. 
BUPHTHALMUM, “Ox-eye.” (N.O. Composite.) 
A bold and showy perennial not particular as to soil, with large, 
heart-shaped leaves, and heads of yellow flowers with dark centres. 
Should be planted in large masses. Division. 
CALCEOLARIA. (N.O. Scrophulariaceae.) 
Plants not generally known as hardy, but some recent crosses 
between the hardy species C. plantaginea and one of the large - 
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