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Show BE BE both very common in Ditches and watery Places almoft every where in England. BEE or Gnat-Fiower ; vide Orchis, BELL-FLOWER ; vide Campanula, ight-Shade, fen0, magno, vel parvo rubro. C. B The red Garden Dzlizie, with double Flowers. 4. Ber LIS vel parv den Daikie 5. BExuis BEECH TREE ; vide Fagus. BELLADONA; Deal 3. Bextts ; tenfis vel parvo, varie ex re candido The double {tri 6. Bexris ; / Garden childing Hen and Ch one Leawh m ents izie, i j & 1 rubro, : , CR. prolife 2 B. The ¢ monly called the albo, The white ; flore pleno ; rubro, trato. Boerh. tua The e common Deadly Ni ght-fhade. red Cockicomb Daizie The firft and fecond Sorts, are very comThis Pl ant grows very common many mon ini Meadows, almoft in every Part of Parts 1 about Farmer: nd in Engla Theyare ufed indifferently in Mefhady Laee but is never k Gardens, diciine, “bei ng the famein all ref pects, exunlels j. thote ofBotaniits ; nor inde ed fhould eet the Colour of the Flowers : ‘i his is alfo it be 'd to grow in any Places where called Cox/olida minima, or the leaf Confound. ¢ eidees refort, forit is a {trong Poifon, and The different Varieties of the Garden Daithere havebe en feveral Inftances within a few zies, are propagated byparting their Roots Years pait of its deadly Qual by feveral in Autumn, and fhould be planted in Borders Children be ae KiPe with cad the Berries, offtrongIEarth, whichare expofed to the Eaft; which are ofa black Colour, and about the Size ofa black Cherry, and not unpleafant for the ¢great Heats in Summer are very fubject to deftroy thefe Plants if they are too to the Tafte. Mr. Raygives a good Account of the va- much expofed thereto, 'Thefe Plantsare€ pret~ rious Sympto ms it produces, by what happen’d ty Ornaments to a Gardenin the Spring of toa Mendicant Friar upon “his drrinking a the Year ; and maybe planted for Edgings Glafs of Mallow- wine, in which was this in large rural Walks in W ilderneffes, ‘where Plant infusd. In a fhort Time he became the Soil is poor, which will prey ent their delirious, foon after was feized with a grin- fpreading too much, butin Parterre Gardens ning L aughter, after that, feveral irregular they fhould Sl beplanted in fingle Roots in thadyEBorders, and every Year tran{plantMotions, andat lafta real Madnef A {5 ceeded, ed, whichwill | preferve them in their Colours, and fuch a Stupi eity as thofe that fottith- and keep them within Compafs, ly drunk |have ; h after all, was cured by a Dra gar, BELLIS MAJOR ; vide Leucanthemum. There is alfo an Inftance of the direful BELVEDERE ; vide Chenopodium. Effects ofthis Plant recorded in Buchanan's Hiftory of Sc wherein he gives an BENZOIN ; The Benjamin-Tree. Account of the Deftruétion of the Army of Sweno, when he invaded by mixing a ot, of the Juice of thefe with the Drink Truce were to ‘ which the Scots by their ly them with, w hich intoxicated the Danes, that the Sco on them in their Sleeps andkilled th Part of them, fo that there was fea enough left to carry off their King BELLIS [is fo call’d of Belly handfome, 9¢ I'he Daizie. are ; I Root, wh e Stalks ave na- the Calyx (or Cup) imple, divided into the Foothatk ; the the Heads ¢ ifter the os efemble obtufe Cites ; aC eciis rm Betts; fueliris ; minor.C. B. The Common {mall 2. Beru ; is; § / 3uinor ; Slore fl mifto C. B. The{mall £ rip ‘4 Daiz ie. ° ¥, which confif 5 ye ae are produc’d three [mail Flow er an oblong Tube ; the se panded, is divi dedinte thefe Segments are Lhreads ; andin the Middle g Ovarium, which becomes the Fruit. We have buc one Species of this Plant England, which is BENnzorn. Boerh. Ind A Breyn. Prod. The Beenjamin-'T 3 ree This Tree was brought from Plant it is produced And this Tree being a Native of the We? Indies, if any fuch Gum had been produc’d from the Trees, it would have been morecertainly known, and we fhould have been furnifhed from thence with the Gumlong before this ‘Time. BERIs ; fine N without Stone. Barberry adenfis. bar- ry. | Ber BeERts 3 frac The white Barberry. The firft of thefe Sorts is very common in England, being often planted for Hedges but the beft Method to have lar od Fruit, js, to plant them eeeor ten Feet afunder, keeping their Middles thin andfree from dead Wood; but their t being for the moft part produced towards the Extremity of their Branches, you fhould be {paring in fhortni ng them; and when this is done, it fhould bea Mich > When their Leaves begin to fecond Sort, I believe to be only an ; firft; for young s taken from old Trees, which produce without Stone, are rarely found to and it hath been obferv’d, that ‘Trees produce their Fruits fo, rr of the Fruit. hath been of late us. Ground, where it hath thriy en han B flower again in the Autumn, if the Seafon proves raisd from Seed Branches, which y Root to be tran ftrong loamySoil in O¢tober or Fe BETA ; The Cha oe no vifible ds, 2 The Cupof the E The See and g covered 4with a or three together wo Buncb. The Species are ; t.Bera, alba; narum. C. B. The comn BERBERIS ; The Barberryor Pipperidge 2, Beta, communis ; The common green me Charatiers are ; 3. Bera, s fet naeharp Prickles:: The Leaves are mon red Beet. 4. Be Boerb. Ind, re ay 5. Bera, rubra s acid Tafte, and for the mof part of red Beet. and gre i ers banging 6. Bera, lite en : The Bark of the Tree is whitifp. Beet, The Species z Ber ) The com- caule. Boer y Fruits upon the fame Tree and is foundhardy enough to refift th mild, but Ihavenot feen any Fruit: in England owgenerally otherwife believed ; for that Gum 1is brought from the Haf é is it certainly known from what Tree or That Sort with white Fruit from the common, ex- England fome Years fince , and v People kept in Green-houfes as a t but it hath been fince plan ted i Cold of our Winters : It com; nonly its Flowers early in the Spring befo r: Leaves appear, and many times will This Tree is propagated by laying down the tender Branches in the Spring of the Year; which by the fucceeding Spring will have made Roots fufficient tobe tranfplanted. ‘The beft Seafonfor this Workis juft before the green Leaves come out. ; From this Tree it was fortmerly fuppos'd that the Gum Benjamin was produc ‘d; but ‘tis The Leaves of thofe of the common but howits Fruit d s from the common Tecan't at prefent fay, h ving not feen ; produc’d in & ngland, alth ough the ‘ree is equally as hardy as the common Sort. Thefé areall propagated from Suckers taken from Rootsofthe old Plants, which generally furnifh them in abundance: Or tthey may be The two firft I Gardens for the Ufe of their Leaves herbs, but at prefent Bahare efteem’d as they hay en, z r Gardens: The otherSorts are prop in Potfo much it in few ( their ee whic *h,iin Winter, Parfnips, &c. and ferv’d P to T by manygcayy eftee : The the moft commonly a ated ufed to garnifh Difhes withal see is by fome very muchefteeme flat Ribs of the Leaves are ftey wards fry’d in Butter, whichis acc many a delicate Difh. Thefe Beets are all prop their Seedsin February or | loofe Soil (but not over de hoed out after they are con leave them ten or twelve Inc they {pread very mu ba Room their Roots will be \ Gardeners near London, a ore mot of their Ground; H Ma rket before the s large ; and when t for the wn very have ts are gonethere will be Room for the they have a double Crop : and if t fhould happen tofail, a Crop of Savoys for the Win feldomlies idle. y fo it that > fo that Beets their Ground BETONICA, [alias Vetonica, of the Vetones, an ancient people of Spain, who firft foundthis Plant.) Beton The © The Le So fers are ; 1, rough and crenated on re difpofed in a Spike The |
