Bower - Brodlaea

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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.

Bower - Brodlaea

Bower

See Arbor.

Box

Box {Buxus semperrirens), is noticed by the gardener chiefly as a plant suitable for edgings. For this purpose it is neat, and certainly the best article used. In some gardens it is suffered to attain too great bulk, and then becomes rather a defect than ornament, exhausting the soil, and presenting a safe lurking place for insects; it should not be allowed to rise higher than six or eight inches, and as much in breadth - if necessary to restrain its growth, transplant. The best seasons for planting box are at midsummer, and early in the spring. Small rooted slips are employed, and are planted against the perpendicular side of a small trench along the edge of the border or bed they are desired to bound. The best month for clipping box is June, and it should be done in showery weather.

Brabejum

Brabejum stellatum. Green-house evergreen shrub. Ripe cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Brachycome

Brachycome iberidifolia. "Seeds of this," says Dr. Lindley,"should be sown in March in pots or shallow pans. filled with light rich soil, and well drained, and the pots should be plunged in a gentle hot-bed. As soon as the young plants are established, they must be kept in a green-house: shift into larger pots as they require it. Those that are to be grown out of doors should be planted out in a prepared bed early, say by the end of May, in order that they may perfect their seeds in September or early in October." - Gard. Chron.

Brachylaena

Brachylaena nereifolia. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat.

Brachysema

Two species. Green-house evergreen climbers. Layers, cuttings, or seeds. Sandy loam and peat.

Brachystelma

Two species. Stove tuberous-rooted perennials. Cuttings. Sandy loam.

Brassavola

Twelve species. Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood.

Brassia

Eleven species. Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood.

Brassica

The cabbage tribe. See Brocoli, Cauliflower, etc.

Braya

Two species. B. afpina. a hardy herbaceous perennial; B.pilosa. a hardy evergreen shrub. Seeds. Loamy peat.

Breaking

A Tulip's flower is broken when it has attained its permanent colors. A bulbous root is said to break when its foliage begins to be thrust forth.

Bremontiera

Bremontiera ammoxylon. Stove-evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam.

Bresia

Three species. Stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Turfy loam and peat.

Bricks

As the gardener often may require to know how many bricks will be required for an intended structure, it will be a guide for him to know that all bricks sold in England are required by statute (17 Ceo. 3, c. 42) to be eight and a half inches long, four inches wide, and two and a half inches thick. Pantiles, by the same authority, must be thirteen and a half inches-long, nine and a half inches wide, and half an inch thick.