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various parts of the Continent. The 
plant is a tender annual, which 
should be raised on a hotbed or in 
a stove, and which, even when in 
flower, should be kept in the green- 
house. It should be grown in a 
light rich soil, and kept rather dry. 
Sometimes it is propagated by cut- 
tings, struck in mould under a hand- 
glass; and plants raised in this 
manner are generally much hardier 
than those from seeds. 
Goneo'ra.— Orchiddcee.— Curi- 
ous epiphytal plants, natives of the 
tropics, which require the usual 
treatment of orchideous plants, and 
are generally grown in a moist 
stove, or orchideous house, in bas- 
kets of moss, or on a piece of wood 
hung up to the rafters. Sometimes 
they are grown in pots, in peat and 
sand, mixed with pieces of broken 
stone or limerubbish. The flowers 
hang down from the root, and re- 
quire to be shaded from the direct 
rays of the sun. ‘They are increas- 
ed by division of the root; and 
when grown in pots the pots should 
be half filled with potsherds. 
Gono’Lonus.— Asclepiadécee. — 
Climbing plants, with dark red flow- 
ers, which require the heat of a 
stove. ‘They should be grown ina 
mixture of loam and peat; and they 
may be increased by cuttings. The 
flowers are more curious than beau- 
tiful. 
Gorpo\nia.— Ternstremidcee.— 
The Loblolly Bay. ‘This plant, 
though in its native country, the 
swamps of North America, it be- 
comes a tree fifty or sixty feet high, 
is in England rarely more than a 
sub-evergreen bush, the height of 
which seldom exceeds five or six 
feet. It is nearly allied to the 
Camellia, and it has large, white, 
sweet-scented flowers, and hand- 
some leaves. It should be grown 
in peat earth, kept moist, in a low 
sheltered situation; but it is quite 
hardy, and will grow in any soil 
GRAFTING. 
or situation, flowering abundantly 
| When of very small size. It is gen- 
erally propagated by layers; but 
when seeds are imported, they should 
be sown on wet moss, as they are 
said only to germinate well on that 
substance. 
| Gossypium. — Malvicee.— The 
Cotton Tree. These plants, most 
of which are natives of the East 
Indies, require a stove in England. 
The flowers are large and hand- 
some, resembling those of the Mal- 
low, and the seeds are enveloped in 
a soft, white, woolly substance, 
which is the cotton. This substance 
is often produced in England. All 
the cotton plants are herbaceous, 
and most of them are biennials; 
and they all require a rich moist 
soil, and abundance of heat. They 
are propagated by seeds and cut- 
tings. 
Graso'wsk1.— Solandcee.— The 
new name for Ly'cium Boerhavie- 
folium. 
Grartine is the art of taking a 
shoot from one plant and uniting 
it to another, in such a manner as 
that it shall grow and thrive as well 
as if it were planted in the ground. 
A grafied plant consists of two 
parts ; the stock, which must have 
a root, and the scion, which is uni- 
ted to the stock by the operation of 
grafting. The scion is commonly 
a shoot of the preceding year’s 
growth ; but, in some cases, it may 
be a shoot of the same year’s growth, 
or it may be of the growth of two 
or more years. ‘The stock should 
be a well-rooted plant, fixed in the 
soil, with a stem of at least as great 
a diameter as that of the scion, but 
the stem may be much larger, and 
of several years’ growth. Grafting’ 
is commonly limited to woody 
plants, and it is only within certain 
hmits that it can be performed. 
To be united together by grafting, 
it is necessary that the plants be of 
the same nature ; and, generally 
