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funeral of Achilles, and it is still 

 used for the same purpose in 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 greenhouse. It should 

 be grown in a light rich soil, and 

 kept rather dry. Sometimes it is 

 propagated by cuttings, struck in 

 mould under a hand-glass ; and 

 plants grown in this manner are 

 generally much hardier than those 

 raised from seeds. 



Gongo'ra. — OrchidacecB. — 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 baskets of 

 moss, or on a piece of wood hiang up 

 to the rafters. Sometimes they are 

 grown in pots, in peat and sand, 

 mixed with pieces of broken stone 

 i or lime-rubbish. The flowers hang 

 I down from the root and require to 

 I be shaded from the direct rays of 

 the sun. They are increased by 

 division of the root; and when 

 grown in pots, the pots should be 

 half filled with potsherds. 



Gono'lobus. — AsclepiaddcecB. — 

 Climbing plants with dark red 

 flowers, which require the heat of a 

 stove. They should be grown in a 

 mixture of loam and peat ; and they 

 may be increased by cuttings. The 

 flowers are more curious than beauti- 

 ful. 



GoRDO^NiA. — Ternstrcemidcece. 

 —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 

 shrub-evergreen bush, the height 

 if which seldom exceeds five or six 

 feet. It is nearly allied to the 

 Camellia, and it has large, white, 

 showy flowers, and large hand- 



some leaves. It should be grown in 

 peat earth, kept moist, in a low 

 sheltered situation ; but it is quite 

 hardy, and it has the great advan- 

 tage of flowering abundantly when 

 of very small size. It is generally 

 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 sub- 

 j stance. 



Gossy'pium. ■ — MalvacecE. — The 

 t Cotton Tree. These plants, most of 

 I which are natives of the East Indies, 

 I require a stove in England. The 

 I flowers are large and handsome, re- 

 1 sembiing those of the IMallow, and 

 I the seeds are enveloped in a soft 

 j white, woolly substance, which is the 

 cotton. This substance is often 

 i produced in England. All the cot- 

 ton plants are herbaceous, and most 

 of them are biennials ; and they all 

 j requii-e a rich moist soil with abun- 

 j dance of heat. They are propagated 

 j by seeds and cuttings. 

 i Grabo'wskia, — Solandcece. — 

 I The new name for Lycluni Boer- 

 haavkefblium. 



I Grae'llsia. — Cruc'ifera. — G. 

 I saxifragcefdlia is a native of Persia, 

 ; whence it was introduced in 1844. 

 I It is a little perennial plant, with a 

 great abundance of showy white 

 ! flowers, and is very ornamental, but 

 smells like garlic. 



Grafting 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 

 grafted plant consists of two parts ; 

 the stock, which must have a root, 

 and the scion, which is united 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 bt. a shoot of the 

 same year's growth, or it may be of 

 the growth of two or more years. 



