GARDOQUIA. 



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GATHERING FLOWERS. 



<all persons fond of gardening, and 

 especially ladies, who have sufficient 

 leisure, not to attempt to have a 

 show-garden, in which they can take 

 comparatively little interest, but to 

 manage their gardens themselves, 

 with the assistance of a man to per- 

 form the more laborious operations. 

 It sometimes happens that a man- 

 servant in the family, who is not 

 overburdened with in-door duties, 

 will answer this purpose ; but it is 

 generally preferable to employ a man 

 who has been brought up as a 

 gardener. 



Garde'xia. — Euhiacece. — The 

 Cape Jasmine. — Greenhouse and 

 stove shrubs, most of which are 

 natives of the East or West Indies, 

 with large and handsome flowers, 

 which are generally white. G. 

 florida, the common Cape Jasmine, 

 obtained its English name from its 

 having been first brought to Eng- 

 land from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where it was found cultivated in a 

 garden, though it is really a native 

 of China. All the species should be 

 grown in a compost of loam and 

 peat, and they all require a moist 

 heat. They are propagated by 

 cuttings of the young wood, struck 

 in sand, under a glass, and with 

 bottom heat. 



Gardoqui'a. — LaMafcE. — Half 

 shrubby dwarf plants, mostly na- 

 tives of South America and Mexico ; 

 one species of which G. Hookerii, 

 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-di'ained pots ; and the plants 

 should be plentifully supplied with 

 water while they are in a growing 

 state. It is nearly hardy, only re- 

 quiring protection from frost, and it 

 will continue flowering fur several 

 months. By frequent repotting, 

 and careful management, this plant 



may be greatly increased both in 

 size and beauty ; and it looks very 

 well trained over a wire frame. 



Garlic Flower. — See A'llium. 



Ga'rrya. — Garry acecB. — 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 October, 1834. 

 These spikes are produced in bun- 

 ches 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 flowering 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 increased by layers, or 

 cuttings, struck in sand under a 

 glass. 



Gates are only necessary in flower- 

 gardens, when they are inclosed by 

 hedges, walls, or sunk, or wire 

 fences, and the gate ought always to 

 bear some kind of relation to the 

 fence. A wire or iron fence may 

 have a wire or iron gate, but it 

 should be always of the simplest 

 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 com- 

 posed 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 

 aU 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 Flowers for bouquets 

 or nosegays should always be per- 

 formed when the plants are dry ; 



