. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. BIB BIL cies. Chiefly hardy deciduous trees and shrubs. B. carpinifolia, B. pon- tica, B. populifolia, are evergreens. Grafting or budding, and layers for the dwarf species. Common garden soil. B I B I 0 marci, St. Mark's Fly, of â which Mr. Curtis gives the following particulars:â The larva; of this insect are generally gregarious, living in large groups of a hundred or more in strawberry-beds, vine borders, flower pots, and similar undisturbed spots, feeding upon the roots, and sometimes destroying the entire plant. Bouche says they com- pletely
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. BIB BIL cies. Chiefly hardy deciduous trees and shrubs. B. carpinifolia, B. pon- tica, B. populifolia, are evergreens. Grafting or budding, and layers for the dwarf species. Common garden soil. B I B I 0 marci, St. Mark's Fly, of â which Mr. Curtis gives the following particulars:â The larva; of this insect are generally gregarious, living in large groups of a hundred or more in strawberry-beds, vine borders, flower pots, and similar undisturbed spots, feeding upon the roots, and sometimes destroying the entire plant. Bouche says they com- pletely demolished his bed of Ranuncu- luses for several successive years, by eating up the tubers. The larva is of a dark brown colour, somewhat cylindri- cal, the belly flattened, moderately broad, and nearly linear; the head is comparatively small, deep brown, some- times of a chestnut colour, and very shining ; they change to pupa; generally towards the end of March ; these are of a pale ochreous colour, the head being brighter. The female lays her eggs in the earth, and in the dung of horses and cows, in May; they do not hatch until August. âGard. Chron. BIDENS. Fourteen species. Chiefly hardy plants. Seeds, suckers, division, according to their habit and duration. Common soil. BIENNIAL, is a plant which, being produced from seed in one year, per- fects its seed and dies during the year following. Biennials may often be made to endure longer if prevented ripening their seeds, and many exotics, biennials in their native climes, are perennials in our stoves. Hardy Biennials. â Some of these ripen their seeds as early as August, in which case they may be sown as soon as harvested. Others ripening their seeds later must have these reserved from sowing until May. The double varieties of wall-flowers, stocks, &c, are propagated by cuttings. Frame Biennials.âThese required the shelter of a frame during the early stages of their growth ; to be removed thence in May to the border
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