Bartonia - Bedding-Out
Description
This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Bartonia - Bedding-Out
Bartonia
Four species. Hardy annuals and biennials. Seed. Sandy loam.
Baryosma
Six species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and sand.
Basella
Eight species. Stove biennial climbers chiefly. Seed. Rich light soil.
Bass, Or Bast Mats
These are chiefly made in Russia, from the inner bark of trees (bast in the Russ language). Their best use is as a packing envelope, for as a protection to wall trees they are inferior to netting; and to standard shrubs, structures made of straw (see Shelters) are to be preferred. They are very serviceable, however, to place over beds of early spring radishes, etc, to prevent the night radiation. This is quite as effectual, much cleaner, and less troublesome than a covering of straw. The strands of these mats are used by Nurserymen as binding, when budding or engrafting, and are the best adapted to the purpose of any material known. Where it is not obtainable, coarse loosely spun cotton or woollen yarn, is a good substitute.
Bassia
Three species. Stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Bastard Acacia
Bastard Acmella
Spilanthes pseudo-acmella.
Bastard Cabbage Tree
Geof-froya.
Bastard Cedar
Bastard Cedar, Guazuma.
Bastard Cherry
Cerasus pseu-do-cerasus.
Bastard Cinnamon
Cinnamo-mum-cassia.
Bastard Cork Tree
Quercus pseudo-suber.
Bastard Dictamnus
Beringe-ria pseudo-dictamnus.
Bastard Hare's Ear
Bastard Jasmine
Androsace chamcejasme.
Bastard Albia
Lavatera pseu-do-albia.
Bastard Quince
Pyrus chamae-mespilus.
Bastard Wind-Flower
Gen-tiana pseudo, pneumonanthe.
Batatas
Twelve species. Chiefly stove deciduous climbers. Young cuttings. Light rich soil.
Batemannia
Batemannia Collegi. Stove epiphyte. Bulbs. Peat and potsherds.
Batschia
Four species. Hardy herbaceous. Seeds and division. Common soil.
Bauera
Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sand and peat.
Bauhinia
Forty-six species. Stove evergreen shrubs or climbers. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Bay Tree
Bay Tree, Laurus nobilis, will resist the winter nearly as far north as Philadelphia, on light soils. Its aromatic leaves render it an agreeable inmate of the garden.
Bead Tree
Bean-Caper
Tygophyllum.
Bears-Bane
Aconitum thereo-phonum.
Bear-Bind
Bears-Breech
Acanthus.
Bears-Grape
Arctostaphylos uva ursi.
Beaufortia
Five species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Beaumontia
Two species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings and seed. Loam and peat.
Becium
Becium bicolor. Green-house shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam.
Bed
Bed is a comprehensive word, applicable to the site on which any cultivated plants are grown. It is most correctly confined to narrow divisions, purposely restricted in breadth for the convenience of hand weeding or other requisite culture.
Bedding-In
See Sowing.
Bedding-Out
Bedding-Out, is removing plants from the pots in which they have been raised, into the beds which they are intended to adorn during summer and autumn. Mr. Threlkeld gives this judicious advice upon the practice. If the season be dry, in the bottom of the hole made for the plant put some rotten dung, or other material that will retain water; water this well, plant, fill the hole to within two inches of the surface, add more water, and then fill up the hole. If water is necessary afterwards, hoe the beds when dry enough. Damp the leaves, if no appearance of dew. - Gard. Chron. The following are good plants for bedding out in masses: - For large beds, Pelargoniums, especially the scarlet, Fuchsias and Pen-stemon gentianoides coccineus. For smaller beds, Petunia superba, beauty, and splendens; Gailardia picta; Oenothera Drummondii; Verbena astrosan-guinea, Bishopii, Taglionii, and Queen; and Lobelia splendens.
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