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BRO 101 BRU<br />

mitted, removing them entirely the latter<br />

part <strong>of</strong> March.<br />

It is the practice <strong>of</strong> some who have<br />

light dry cellars, to place them therein,<br />

when removing them in the autumn,<br />

burying the roots and stalks as above<br />

directed. In that situation they re-<br />

BROTERA, corymhosa. Hardy herbaceous<br />

perennial. Division. Loam and<br />

peat<br />

BROUGHTONIA. Two species,<br />

Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood,<br />

BROUSSONETIA. Two species,<br />

Hardy deciduous trees. Cuttings. Light<br />

quire no further care or protection,<br />

Broccoli is someiimes sown about the<br />

middle <strong>of</strong> September, the plants preopen<br />

soil.<br />

BROWALLIA. Four species. Green-<br />

house annuals. Seeds. Rather sandy<br />

served in frames during winter, and put soil.<br />

out in the spring. They are by no<br />

means certain to succeed well at that<br />

season ; a few nevertheless might be<br />

thus managed, as they will generally<br />

head in the autumn, when tailing to do<br />

so during the summer months.<br />

"All the Brassica or Cabbage tribe is<br />

subject to be preyed upon by various<br />

insects, the most destructive <strong>of</strong> which<br />

in this country is the ' Black Fly'<br />

(Ilaltica nemorum) ; and in such im-<br />

BROWNEA. Five species. Stove<br />

evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy<br />

loam and peat.<br />

BROWXLOWIA elata. Stove evergreen<br />

tree. Cuttings. Sandy loamy<br />

soil.<br />

BRUCHUS, a genus <strong>of</strong> beetles.<br />

B. graiiarius and B. pisi are greatly<br />

destructive to our pea crops. They are<br />

small brownish beetles, usually found<br />

at the same time the plants are in flower,<br />

,<br />

j<br />

i<br />

mense quantities do they sometimes<br />

appear, and so voracious their appetite,<br />

that extreme difficulty is found in proand<br />

they deposit their eggs in the ten-<br />

der seeds <strong>of</strong> leguminous plants, and<br />

sometimes in different kinds <strong>of</strong> corn,<br />

tecting the young plants from their In these the larva, a small white lieshy<br />

depredations. As soon as they appear. grub, tinds both a suitable<br />

take wood ashes, mixed with one-third and an abundance <strong>of</strong> food.<br />

habitation<br />

It underair-slaked<br />

lime, and sprinkle over the goes all its transformations in the seed,<br />

entire plants, first wetting the leaves and the perfect insect remains in it till<br />

j<br />

that the dust may adhere ; this should the spring, though in fine autumns the<br />

be repeated as <strong>of</strong>ten as it flies <strong>of</strong>l^, or is perfect insects appear at that season<br />

washed olf by rain. An application <strong>of</strong>] also. The larva; possess the singular<br />

j<br />

|<br />

\<br />

'<br />

lime water is also beneficial ; it is disa- instinct <strong>of</strong> never attacking the vital part<br />

preeable to the fly as well as the slug <strong>of</strong> the seed till the last,<br />

;<br />

the latter insect preys much upon them We have <strong>of</strong>ten observed the seed<br />

in damp weather. But the most certain pods <strong>of</strong> chorozema, and other delicate<br />

preventive is a solution <strong>of</strong> whale-oil and scarce leguminous plants in green-<br />

soap—a solution <strong>of</strong> common s<strong>of</strong>t-soap houses, pierced by the Brnchus pisi.<br />

or brown-soap, would probably answer The more effectual remedy is to pull<br />

i<br />

the purpose; the alkali therein is par- i up and burn the haulm and pods altoticularly<br />

<strong>of</strong>fensive to that troublesome gether, and not attempt to get a crop<br />

intruder." Rural Register<br />

at all. Peas infested with B. granarius,<br />

BRODL^EA. Two species B. con- are always known by a small hole being<br />

g:e.s/rt, green-house ; B. grandiflora, half! on one side, and these should be care-<br />

hardy bulbous peren'nials. Offsets, fully picked out, as they not only spoij<br />

Sandy peat.<br />

the appearance <strong>of</strong> a sample, but spread<br />

BllOMELIA. Fifteen species. Chiefly the injury<br />

Btove herbaceous perennials. B. disco- BRUGMANSIA. Four species.<br />

lor is an evergreen shrub; B. exudans. Green-house evergreen shrubs. B. Wayan<br />

epiphvte. Suckers. Rich loamy soil. 7?innu' is a stove evergreen tree. Cut-<br />

BROMHEADIA pa/us^r/s. Stove epiphyte.<br />

Offsets. Peat and potsherds.<br />

BRONGNIARTIA, podalyrioides.<br />

Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings.<br />

Sandy loam and peat.<br />

BiioOM. See Besom.<br />

BROSIMUM. Two species. Stove<br />

evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loamy<br />

soil.<br />

tings. Rich soil<br />

BRUISE. See Canker.<br />

BRUNIA. Eighteen species. Greenhouse<br />

evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.<br />

Sandy peat.<br />

RRUNNICHIAc/rr/iosa. Green-house<br />

evergreen climber. Cuttings. Loamy<br />

soil.<br />

BRUNONIA australis. Hardy herb-

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