The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . nsectPests. BARK. This is largely employed as a plungingmaterial for Pine-plants in pots. The tan is placed overa hot-air chamber and made into a bed, in which thepots are plunged up to their rims, the heat in the bedbeing regulated by the hot-water pipes in the chamberunderneath. All plants in pots requiring bottom-heatmay be grown in the same manner. BARK-BEETLES. See Scolytidse. BARKERIA. This genus is now included, by <lieauthors of the Genera Pla
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . nsectPests. BARK. This is largely employed as a plungingmaterial for Pine-plants in pots. The tan is placed overa hot-air chamber and made into a bed, in which thepots are plunged up to their rims, the heat in the bedbeing regulated by the hot-water pipes in the chamberunderneath. All plants in pots requiring bottom-heatmay be grown in the same manner. BARK-BEETLES. See Scolytidse. BARKERIA. This genus is now included, by <lieauthors of the Genera Plantarum, under the species described on p. 158, Vol. I., the followingshould be added: B. Barkeriola (Barkeriola). A synonym of EpidendniniBarkeiiula. B. cyclotella (circular). Ji. very showy, disposed in a terminalraceme ; sepals and petals deep magenta; lip white, mar^ziinedmaj;enta,, broad, emarginate. February and March. I. distichous,lip:ulate-oblong, acute. Stems as thick as a quill. Mexico.(W. O. A. iv. 148.) . B. elegans nobllior (nobler). A fine, large-flowered variety,bavinj; a bUickish-purple spot on the lip. 18. Fir,. 140. Flower of Barkeria Lindleyana. B, Lindleyana. This species is one of tlie most beautiful in the whole genus. See Fig. spectabllis. A showy species, which is at its best about midsummer. See Fig. 141. Barkeria continxied.
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