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of the principal tender annuals. The seeds should be sown 

 in February or March, not too thickl}', and placed in a hotbed 

 or in a hothouse. As soon as the young plants are large 

 enough to be handled they may be transplanted four or five 

 in a three-inch pot, where they may grow until large enough 

 to be potted singly into pots of the same size. They are best 

 grown close to the glass in a hotbed of moderate warmth; 

 but after they are somewhat advanced, and the weather be- 

 comes warm, they may be grown in a greenhouse kept rather 

 close and damp. The young plants must be shifted into larger 

 pots as often as the roots make their appearance through the 

 bottom of the pots, until at last they will be a foot high, 

 nearly as much through, and covered, about August or 

 earlier, with their clover-like heads of flowers. They seed 

 freely ; and the flowers continue a long time after they are 

 gathered and dried, the petals being chaffy or scaly^ like those 

 of Everlasting flowers. G. pulchella, another pretty annual 

 kind, though not as yet veiy commonly grown, deserves to 

 be so. 



GONIOPTERIS. [Polypodiacese.] A genus of ferns, 

 consisting for the most part of stove species. Soil, peat, 

 loam, and sand. Increased by division. G. Fasten is the 

 best. 



GOODENIA. [Goodeniaceae.] Greenhouse plants, with 

 ratlier pretty flowers. Soil, peat and loam, with sand. In- 

 creased by cuttings in sand placed in a hotbed, or by. seeds. 



GOODIA. [Leguminosae, § Papilionaceae.] Greenhouse 

 evergreen shrubs. Soil, peat and loam, with sand. Increased 

 by cuttings in sand placed in a hotbed. 



GOODYERA. [Orchidaceae.] A genus of perennial herbs, 

 two or three of which are hardy, requiring to be grown in 

 spongy, peaty soil, in a shady situation not affected by 

 drought. The most interesting is G. discolor, a stove species, 

 which bears very ornamental spikes of white flowers during 

 winter, and is therefore desirable on account of its blossoms, 

 as well as for its velvety foliage, which is of a very dark green 

 on the upper, and dull red on the lower surface. It is nearly 

 related to Anoectochilus, but more easily managed, requiring 

 to be potted in loose turfy peat and potsherds, ^nd to be kept 

 in a damp hot atmosphere. It is propagated by division. 



