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with large yellow flowers. They 
: should be planted in very sandy soil, 
G. and either taken up, or kept dry by 
covering with a hand-glass during 
Ga‘cra.—Asphodeldcee.—Pretty | winter. When grown in pots, the 
little European bulbous plants, gene- | soil should be heath-mould or very 
rally with small dingy yellow flow- | sandy loam. 
ers. They should be grown insandy| Gare‘ca—Legumindse.—-Goat’s 
soil, and will not require taking up| Rue. Weedy-looking plants, with 
in winter. The plants belonging to | small purple or white flowers, about 
this genus were formerly considered | the size of the common vetch, and 
to belong to Ornithogalum. Gdgea| bluish green leaves. They grow 
litea or fascicularis is a British | freely in any common soil, but they 
plant. ' require a great deal of room, from 
Gattis rp1a.—-Composite.-—Very | their tall and bushy stems. 
showy herbaceous plants, natives of | Gaxinso'cza. — Composite.— G. 
America, some of which are an-|trilobdta is a well-known showy 
nuals and others perennials. 'They | Mexican annual, with rich orange- 
grow best in peat soil. G. Drum- | yellow flowers, which will grow in 
mondi or picta, and G. pulchélla | any common soil, and may be sown 
or bicolor, as it is called in the seed- |in March, April, or May. Like 
shops, are annuals; and their seeds | so many other plants, Professor De 
should be sown on a slight hotbed | Candolle has changed its name ; 
in February or March; or in the | and it is now called Sagalgina tri- 
open ground in the same months, | lobdta. 
and covered with a hand-glass, or| Ga‘L1um.—Rubidcee._-Bedstraw. 
flower-pot turned over them, to pre- | —Perennial and annual plants, some 
serve them if the weather should | of which are aquatics, generally 
be frosty when they come up. It)| with yellow or white flowers; na- 
is necessary to sow the seeds of | tives of Europe, and several of them 
these plants in February or March, | British weeds. They will grow in 
as they are a long time before they ,; any common soil, but they prefer 
come into flower. ‘The true G. | sand or peat. 
bicolor is a perennial species, now Garpens, in floriculture, may be 
called G. lanceolata, which should | described as separate scenes for the 
be grown in a peat border, and kept | display of ornamental plants. The 
moderately moist ; it is propagated | forms of these gardens or scenes 
by seeds or division of the root 
are different ; some being laid out in 
5) Gaxa'xntuus—Amaryllidacee. — | beds, the prevailing forms of which 
The Snowdrop. The common Brit- | are curvil. uear; and others in beds, 
ish Snowdrop, G. nivalis, is well| of which che prevailing forms are 
known both in its single and double | rectangular, such as squares, paral- 
state; but G. plicanthus, the Rus- | lelograms, octagons, polygons, &c. 
sian Snowdrop, which has smaller | In some gardens, the beds have the 
flowers, is not so common. They | forms of particular styles of archi- 
both require a light rich soil, and | tecture, such as of the Gothic, Gre- 
they will thrive under the drip of | cian, Elizabethan, &c.; and these 
trees. They are increased by off- | latter forms have given rise to what 
sets. are called styles or manners in lay- 
Gaua’x1a. — Iriddcee. — Dwarf | ing out gardens. Hence we have 
bulbous-rooted plants, natives of the | gardens in the Gothic style, in 
Cape of Good Hope, and generally | which the forms of Gothic archi- 
