GARDEN FLOWERS. l8l 



GoLDYLOCKS. See Chrysocoma. 



GoMPHRENA. Globe Amaranth. [Amaranthaceae.] Pretty 

 plants, usually grown as annuals. The chief kind is G. glo- 

 bosa commonly called Globe Amaranth. The seeds should 

 be thinly sown in a hot-bed in April. As soon as the young 

 plants are large enough to be handled, they should be trans- 

 planted to a frame, and set four inches apart, or into pots, 

 where they may grow^ until all danger of frost is over, when 

 they may be transplanted to the garden. They seed freely ; 

 and the flowers continue beautiful a long time after they are 

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

 those of Everlasting flow^ers. G. pulchella, another pretty 

 annual kind, though not as yet ver}^ commonly grown, de- 

 serves to be so. 



G. globosa (globe); stove annual; i8 inches; flowers purple 

 or white, in July; India; 1714. G. piilchella (pretty); stove 

 annual; 18 inches ; flowers rose-red, in July ; Brazil; 1843. 



There are varieties with white, pink, and orange flow^ers. 



GooDYERA. [Orchidaceae.] A genus of pretty terres- 

 trial orchids, with pretty variegated foliage. They need a 

 sandy peat or leaf-mould, and a shady situation. Propa- 

 gated by offsets. 



G. pubesceiis (downy) ; hardy perennial ; 6 inches ; flowers 

 white, in July; North America; 1802. G. repens (creeping); 

 hardy perennial ; 4 inches ; flowers white, in Jul}^ ; North 

 America. 



Gourd Ornamental. See Cucurbita. 



Grape Hyacinth. See Muscarl 



Grammanthes. [Crassulaceae.] Pretty annual plants 

 with starry flowers, flourishing in warm sunny situations. 

 Propagated by seed sown in sandy loam, and transplanted 

 to garden. 



G. chlorcejiora (y-ellow-flowered) ; half-hardy annual ; 6 inch- 



