Billbergia - Bobartia
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.
Billbergia - Bobartia
Billbergia
Ten species. Stove epiphytes. Suckers. Rich mould.
Billotia
Billotia acerosa. Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat.
Bindweed
Bindweed
Smi/ax Aspera.
Biophytum
Biophytum sensiticum. Hardy annual. Seeds. Common soil.
Birch
Birch
Carpinus Betulus.
Bird Cherry
Cerasus padus.
Bird Pepper
Capsicum bacca-tum.
Bird's Bill
Trigonella ornitho-podioides.
Bird's Eye
Primula farinosa.
Bird's Foot
Orthinopus. Euphorbia orthinopus.
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Bird's Nest
Asplenium Nidus.
Bird's Tongue
Ornitho glos-sum.
Birthwort
Biscutella
Twenty-three species. Hardy annuals and herbaceous perennials. Seeds. Loam and peat.
Biserrula
Biserrula pelecinus. Hatchet vetch. Hardy annual. Seeds. Sandy loam or peat.
Bitter Sweet
Solanum Dulcamara.
Bivon Aea Lutea
Annual. Seeds. Dry sandy soil.
Bixa
Three species. Stove evergreen trees. Seeds or cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Bizarre
See Carnation.
Black Arch Moth
See Bombyx.
Black Caterpillar
See Atha-lia.
Black Varnish Tree
See Milanorrhaa.
Blackweilia
Six species. Stove or evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy peat.
Bladder Blight
See Peach.
Blaeria
Eleven species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy peat.
Blakea
Two species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Peat and loam.
Blandfordia
Two species. Green-house herbaceous perennials. Suckers or seeds. Sandy loam and peat.
Blast Or Blight
Blast Or Blight, is the popular name for any withering of plants of which neither the scientific title nor the causes are known to the observer. The mildew of corn; the honey dew on fruit trees; the withering occasioned by violent cold winds in early spring, and the ravages of the hawthorn caterpillar, are all spoken of by the uninformed under the above titles.
Blechnum
Thirteen species. Stove or green-house herbaceous perennial ferns. B. serrulatum is hardy. Seeds or division. Sandy loam and peat.
Blechum
Four species. Stove herbaceous perennial ferns. Cuttings. Loamy peat.
Bleeding
See Extravasated Sap.
Blepharis
Five species. Stove and green-house plants. B. furcata is an evergreen shrub. B. procumbens an evergreen trailer. Seeds. Loam and peat.
Blephilia
Two species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Division. Common soil.
Bletia
Eleven species. Stove orchideous plants. Division. Sandy peat and light loam.
Blighia
Blighia sapida. Akee Tree. Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings. Loam and:
Blind Plants
Blind Plants frequently occur in the cabbage and others of the bras-sica tribe. They are plants which have failed to produce central buds, and as these are produced from the central vessels, if the top of their stems be cut away, they usually emit lateral or side buds from the edge of the wound. See Barren Plants.
Blite
Blite, or Strawberry Spinach. (Bli-tum).
Blitum
Five species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
Blood
See Animal Matters.
Blumenbachia
Two species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Rich loam.
Bobartia
Three species. Greenhouse herbaceous perennials. B. auran-tiaca is hardy. Division. Sandy peat.
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