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GLORIOSA. [^Melantbaceae.] Beautiful bulbous stove 

 climbers, requiring to be kept dry wben at rest, to be grown 

 freely in a strong moist heat, and then ripened off after 

 flowering, and kept dry till the following spring. Tbe green- 

 house kinds require a less moist atmosphere. Soil, turfy 

 peat, fibrj loam, leaf-soil, old cowdung, and sand in equal 

 proportions. Increased by separating the bulbs at the time 

 of repotting, which should be done annually about March, 

 or by seeds. G. superba is the principal variety cultivated. 



GLORY PEA. See Clianthus. 



GLOSSOCOMIA. [Campanulaceae.j Hardy herbaceous 

 perennials. Common soil. Increased by seeds or divi- 

 sion. 



GLOXINIA. [Gesneraceae.] Stove bulbous-rooted per- 

 ennials of dwarf habit, and with very showy and very abun- 

 dant blossoms. They require to be repotted annually, using 

 a comj)ost of loam, dung, turfy peat, and sand in equal por- 

 tions, and in pots scarcely broader than the width of the 

 bulb. As the roots fill the pots they must be changed to 

 larger, and the plants must l)e grown on the front shelves or 

 tables of the stove in the full light, to prevent their being 

 drawn up. They want considerable moisture while growing ; 

 but after the bloom has declined water should be gradually 

 withheld, and the pots set back on the shelves, and remain 

 undisturbed until growing time comes again, which will be 

 indicated by the starting of the buds on the top of the bulbs. 

 To propagate them take any of the supernumerary shoots 

 from the bulb when they are an inch and a half long, and 

 strike them in small pots under a bell-glass, after which they 

 may be potted off and shifted till they bloom ; or plants may 

 be raised from the leaves planted as cuttings. To raise from 

 seed sow in March ; keep the pots in the stove till the pjlants 

 are up ; when large enough they may be pricked out three 

 or four in a three-inch pot ; and in due time pot them singly, 

 and treat them like the older plants. The flowers are usually 

 pendulous. The garden varieties eclipse the species. 



GNIDIA. [Thymelaceae.] Greenhouse evergreen shrubs 

 of neat habit, but not producing very conspicuous flowers. 

 They are raised from cuttings, treated like those of the Heath 

 family, and require very similar general management. Soil, 



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