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Show BI r ufeful, nor of BL any Beauty, fo I thal ] pafs them over in this Place. eded by four i There are feveral Species of tt\ ated in Be BINDWEED ; wide Convolvulus. BIFOLIUM ; Twyblade. ’ This Plant grows wild in moift Meadows in divers P. 7 it rifesin May, and flowers in ci Fre » and : foon after dies away, This Plant is of no Ufe or Beauty. ck Gardens; but < them to the Curious, fo I fhall pafs them over with only mentioning is ufed in Medicine the common Sort which Fim in Memory of Abbot Biguon, XIV. King of France, he rea. C. B. The Common it Encourager of Learning. | in Woods and fhady Places in moft Parts of Cc. B. in a Garden, vide Scro- phularia. BETONICA PAULI; vide Veronica. The Birch-Tree. The re5 3 J arf Trumpet-Flower; the Juli or s fro the Fruit becomes We have but from the Roots of Trees, moift {pringy Soils, or in Marfhes, or Bogs: V a Yea wood) cut th > z ? jiore he large yellow Trumpet-Flow 4. BreNonta; nericana; Arbor; S- ringe Tree in The blue Trumpet-Flower, Cattalpa. The Sort firft mentioned is common in fe which may be el € dy . Brenonta; 0; Fraxini fo i °d, and inglaud, which is, Betura. Dod. The Birch-Tree. This Tree is propagated by Suckers taken ye It owin either 1 in fix Inches of the Surface, which will caufe them to fhoot out and but if they are defign’d for large it will be muchbetter to let them ftand two Years before you head them down; and when youdo it, cut them within three Inches of the Ground, that their Sterns maybe ftrait and handfome : but you muft obfery €, when they begin to put out, whether they produce re than one Shoot 3 which if they do, you trub off all but the ftrongeft and moft convenient Shoot which mutt be train’d up for a Stem. The Timber ofthis Tree, tho’ accounted the worft ofall others, yet is not without its radice minus intorta. \ “This Plant flowers in May, and if the Seafon proves moift, will continue to produce newSpikes of Flowerstill Augu/t. Tt may be propagated by planting the Roots in a moift fhady Border, either in Spring or Autumn, and will foon furnifh the Ground with Plants; for it greatlyincreafes byits creeping Roots. BIVALVULAR, or Brvaive, (of Bivalvis] Husk; is one that opens or gapes the whole Length, like a Door that opens in two moift than dry, and not over rich. BETULA. 3 major ; The common great Bifort, or Snake- weed. by either fowing the s in Spring, or by arting the Roots, which may be taken out of the Woods : > Soil fhould be rather BETONICA AQUATICA ; BISTORTA; [fo call’d, becaufe the Root isturn’'d or wreath’d into various Rings or Spires.] Biftort or Snake-weed. ; There are there or four Varieties of this Plant which are found wild in England, but as they are feldom planted in Gardens, fo I fhall pais them over with only mentioning the commonSort which is uféd in Medicine. — 5 Bistor : It may be propagated in ff BIRCH-Tree; vide Betula. BISLINGUA; vide Rufcus. Ceruler j 5 re0. veral curious Gardens near London, and is planted ft Walls expos’d to the South Sun, it thrives and produces large f Flowers annually but it requires a great deal of Room, for it is a large 3 and the Flowers being always produc’d at the extreme Parts of the fame Year's 5 » if thefe are ftopp’d, the Flowers are n off ; but in the Spring the young nches may I three or four I Inches or two Feet il weak Shoots arge ones twenty afunder: ftrike Roots into are fecur'd, and require very Thefe Branches by which they little Affiftance in g them up. he third Sort is fearce in En at pre- e Growth in the warm Parts of America, but being tenderet than the other Sorts, requires to be kept ina Stove in England. The fourth Sort was brought from the Bahama Wands by Mr. Catesby a few Yeats fince : It hath not, as yet, produc’d any Flowersin England, but is very hardy, and grows to be a handfome upright Tree: The various Ufes: The Turners often ufe it to e Chairs, &c. and the Husband-man for Leaves are verylike thofe of the Lilac, but Ss; it is alfo planted for Hop- fomewhat larger. ‘Chefe Trees are all of . but in Places within twenty them propagated bylaying their Branches, of ondor, it is kept often cut to make from Suckers, (which in the two firft Sorts are Brooms, and turns to great Account, produc’din great Plenty) ; and fometimes the Cuttings will take Root, tho’ not very often. er-Hemp Agrimony. The beft Seafon for trantplanting thefe Trees, ave twoor three Varieties of this Plant isin the Spring, after the cold Weathe ild in England, but as they are paft. They delight in a dry fandy Soil. _ BINDz Parts. BLADDER-NUT;_ dron. vide Staphylloden- BLATTARIA; [takes its Name of Biztta, Lat. a Moth or Worm, becaufe this Plant kills thofé Animals that gnaw Books.] MothMullein. BL be tranfplanted where they are to remain for good. If any of thefe Plants thoot up to flower the firft Year, the Winter will deftroy them, but thofe that are backward will endure our fevereft Winters, provided they are planted on a dry rubbifhy Soil, and the next Spring will flower and produce good Seeds. The fourth and fifth Sorts are Perennials, their Roots abiding feveral Years in the Ground: Thefe are alfo rais’d by fowing their Seeds, for their Roots do feldom part well, and the often removing themprevents their flowering ftrong. All thefe Sorts delight in a dry, poor,ftony, or gravelly Soil, and are often found growing upon old Walls and Buildings, BLIGHTS. There is nothing fo deftru@tive to a Fruits Garden as Biights ; nor is there any thing in the Bufinefs of Gardening which requires more of our ferious Attention than the endeavouring to prevent or guard againft this great Enemy of Gardens, In order therefore to remedy this Evil, it will be neceffary firft to underftand the true Caufes of Bights: And altho’ many curious Perfons have attempted to explain the Caufes of them, yet very few of them have yet come near the Truth, except the Reverend and Learned Mr. Hales, who hath, in his curious Book, _intitled, Vegetable Staticks, given us fome accurate Experiments upon the Growth and Perfpiration ofPlants; together, with the various Effeéts the Air hath upon Vegetables, The Charaéfers are ; that by carefully attending thereto, together aves are plac'd alternately upon the withdiligent Obiervations, we need feldom to The Cup of the Flower confifts of be at a Lofs howto account for the Caufes of > which is divided into five Segments : Blights whenever they may happen. Lhe Flowers confit of one Leaf, which {preads But here J can’t help taking Notice of the > and is divided alfo into five Segments : feveral Caufes of Blights, asthey have been ey are produc’d in long Spikes, and are laid down by fome of our modern Writers on b und Veffels, which are divided Gardening ; together, with their various Me-~ into two Cells, and contain many {mall Seeds in thods prefcrib’d to prevent their Deftruétion of Fruits, €c, The Species are ; Some have fuppos’d, that Blights are ufually 1. Buarrarta; Jutea. 7. B. Theyellow produc'd by an Eafterly Wind, which brings Moth- Mullein, vaft Quantities of Infeés Eggs along with 2. Brarrartra; alba. C. B. The white, it from fome diftant Place, which being lodg’d Moth-Mullein. 3. Barrarra; flore rofeo, Boer. Ind. The upon the Surfaces of the Leaves and Flowers of Fruit-Trees, caufe them to fhrivel up Rofe-colour’d Moth-Mullein, and ‘ 4. Brarrarra; purpurea. C. B. ‘The perifh. To cure this Diftemper, they advife the burning of wet Litter on the Wind-ward Purple Moth-Mullcin. Side of the Trees, that the Smoak thereof may 5. Brarrarta; perennis, folio Verbafci : be carried to them by the W ind, which they Flore luteo amplo. Mor. Hift. "The perennial fuppofe will ftifle and deftroy thefe Infeéts, Moth-Mullein, with large yellow Flowers, and thereby cure the Diftemper. There are feveral other Varieties of this Others dire& the Ufe of Tobacco-duft 3 or Plant, which are preferv’d in the curious Gardens ofthe Botanifts ; but thefe mention’d to wath the Trees with Water wherein Tobacco-ftalks have been infus’d for twelve Hours are fome ofthe moft beautiful, and are ; worthy which they fay will deftroy thefe Infeéts, and ‘ving in all curious Gardens, except the recover the Trees: And Pepper-duft {catter’d init, whichis a fpontaneous Plant in England; upon the Blofloms of Fruit-Trees, has been for which Reafon I plac’'d it here in the Front recommended as veryufeful in this Cafe: And to introduce the reft. The threefirft mention’d are biennial Plants, there are fome that advife the pulling off the Leaves of the Tree, as the beft Remedy, cr itanding more than two Years, and whentheyare fhrivel’d up and wither, and to mes but one: They muft be fown in cut off the {maller Branches when they produce €; and whenthey are come up, may crooked and unnatural Shoots, and to fprinkle Bb the |