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species should be grown in a com- | Gates are only necessary in 
post of loam and peat; and they all | flower-gardens, where they are in< 
require a moist heat. They are, closed by hedges, walls, or sunk or 
propagated by cuttings of the young | wire-fences, and the gate ought 
wood, struck in sand, under a glass, 
and with bottom-heat. 
Garvo‘quia. — Labiate.— Half- 
shrubby dwarf plants, mostly na- 
tives of South America and Mexi- 
co; one species of which, G. Hook- 
érii, commonly called the Scarlet 
Thyme, which is a native of South 
Carolina, is very handsome. It 
should be grown in sandy peat and 
loam, in well-drained pots; and the 
plants should be plentifully sup- 
plied with water while they are in 
a growing state. It is nearly hardy, 
only requiring protection from frost, 
and it will continue flowering for 
several months. By frequent. re- 
potting, and careful management, 
this plant may be greatly increased 
both in size and beauty; and it looks 
very well trained over a wire frame. 
_ Garipe’Liua. — Ranunculacee.— 
A very curious-looking hardy an- 
nual, which will grow in any com- 
mon garden soil; but which is sel- 
dom now found except in botanic 
gardens. 
Garuic Frowrer.—See A‘iiium. 
Ga’rrysa.— Garrydcee.—A hardy 
evergreen, introduced only a few 
years since, and which produced 
its very handsome long pendulous 
spikes of blossoms, or catkins, for 
the first time in England, in Octo- 
ber, 1834. ‘These spikes are pro- 
duced in bunches of eight or ten 
together; and they are frequently 
above a foot long. It is quite hardy, 
and should be grown in a loamy 
soil, where it will continue flower- 
ing all the winter, in defiance of the 
cold. It is a most striking object, 
not only from the great abundance 
of its long, slender, graceful catkins, 
but from its dark-green, glossy, and 
leathery leaves. It is readily in- 
creased by layers, or cuttings, struck 
in sand under a glass. 
always to bear some kind of rela- 
tion to the fence. A wire or iron 
fence may have a wire or iron gate, 
but it should be always of the sim- 
plest construction; a rustic fence 
should have a rustic gate; and a 
wall or a hedge commonly a close 
gate, or a boarded gate with stone 
or brick piers. Where a flower- 
garden is surrounded by a sunk 
fence composed of a sunk wall, and 
a fosse or ditch, the gate.may in 
some cases be of iron between stone 
piers, and in others of light twisted 
wire. In all cases of this kind, the 
general harmony of the scene must 
be taken as a guide; and care taken 
that the gate neither appear too 
conspicuous, nor too insignificant. 
GATHERING FLowess for bouquets 
or nosegays, should always be per- 
formed when the plants are dry; 
otherwise, when tied together in a 
nosegay, the compressed leaves are 
liable to rot. ‘The sprigs or shoots 
containing the flowers, or in the 
case of monocotyledonous plants, 
such as the Narcissus, the Hya- 
cinth, &c., the flower-stems should 
always be taken off, so as not to 
injure the leaves which remain on 
the plant ; and in branching plants, 
such as the Rose and all dicotyle- 
donous herbaceous plants, the sprigs 
should be cut off at the back of a 
bud, otherwise in a short time an 
unsightly naked portion of the stem 
will remain on, which will at last 
wither, and disfigure the living 
plant. The branches should always 
be cut off, and not broken; as it is 
extremely difficult to break off a 
branch without injuring the portion 
that remains on the tree. 
GaTHERING SEEps is an interest- 
ing operation; because it carries 
the mind forward to another year, 
and another generation. It should 
