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Garden—continued. 
is to get the best view from a summer house in the 
corner (b), and from the windows of the principal rooms. 
The plan shown at Fig. 80 is one that might be adopted on a 
rather large and expensive scale for a Garden connected 
with a good-sized villa. The outside boundary is usually a 
wall, and in this case it is intended to be hidden by a row 
of dwarf Robinias and an irregular belt of shrubs. 
These 
Garden—continued. 
be incurred in stocking and properly keeping up a 
Garden of this description; but it would not require to be 
frequently renewed, like a quantity of summer flower beds. 
GARDEN CRESS. See Cress, Garden. 
GARDENER’S GARTER. See Phalaris arun- 
dinacea variegata. 
GARDEN FRAMES. Se Frames, 
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Garden. y 
GARDENIA (named in honour of Alexander 
Garden, M.D., of Charlestown, Carolina, one of 
the correspondents of Ellis and Linnæus). In- 
cluding Rothmannia. ORD. Rubiaceœ. A genus 
comprising about sixty species of elegant stove 
or greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs, indi- 
genous to tropical Asia, as well as the Cape 
of Good Hope. Flowers white, axillary or tere 
minal, usually solitary, and generally sweet- | 
scented ; corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, 
having the tube much longer than the calyx, 
and the limb twisted in ewstivation, but after- 
wards spreading. Leaves opposite, rarely 
whorled. The double forms of G. florida and 
G. radicans produce white flowers that are 
amongst the most beautiful and highly per- 
fumed of any in cultivation. Gardenias are 
principally grown for the use of the flowers 
in a cut state, as these are in great demand, 
and appear so much in a succession as not to 
render the plants sufficiently attractive by their — 
presence for ordinary decoration, excepting that 
of the stove. Propagation is readily effected by 
cuttings. Strong, healthy ones should be se- 
lected, preferably with a heel attached, such as 
those obtained from the points of side shoots, 
half or fully ripened. Early in January is the 
best time to propagate for allowing the plants 
a long season to grow before flowering the next 
winter; but almost any time in the year will 
do when suitable cuttings can be secured. They 
should be inserted singly in small pots of sandy 
peat, unless required in large quantities, when 
this plan would demand too much space, and 
the alternative of placing several in a larger 
size would have to be adopted. The pots should — 
be plunged in a bottom heat of about 75deg., 
in an inclosed frame of the propagating house, 
a) and allowed to remain there until the cuttings 
` are rooted. eae 
Cultivation. Gardenias are not difficult to 
cultivate, provided they have plenty of heat 
and moisture during the growing season, and are 
kept free from insects. These conditions en- 
courage the production of strong healthy shoots, 
which, after being ripened, and the plants 
rested, supply a large quantity of flowers from 
the points. The young plants, when rooted, 
should be hardened from the frame to the open 
house, and potted on by liberal shifts as becomes 
requisite, in a lumpy compost of two-thirds 
peat to one of fibry loam, with an addition of 
some charcoal. Where bottom heat is not at 
Fig, £0. PLAN FOR VILLA GARDEN, 
are followed by turf and a walk of an irregular outline, 
which ends in a rustic summer house at one corner (a) 
and has a garden seat at another. A greenhouse joins 
the residence, which is not shown in the figure; and the 
lawn, situated in the middle, has a few clumps of ever- 
green flowering shrubs arranged in the corners and 
curves formed by the walks. Considerable expense would 
MIS! 
— — — of fermenting material is- 
frequently made up in a house, for lunging the 
pots in, the house itself being — by pipes 
in the ordinary way. If carefully managed, and 
not allowed to over-heat, this plan is generally attended 
with good results, Very large plants may be obtained, 
under proper treatment, in one season; and if a succession 
is propagated occasionally to follow others, and thus some 
are in different stages of growth, the supply of flowers 
may be considerably prolonged. After the season’s growth 
is completed, a lower temperature and more air should 
