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mixture of fine peat and sand ; the seeds 

 should not be covered ; they may after- 

 wards be placed in a frame where the 

 temperature is about 680. When they 

 have acquired one or two leaves, they 

 should be potted off into small pots 



green-house evergreens ; chiefly twin- 

 ers. Seeds. Loam, peat, and sand. 



GLYCIRUHIZA. Liquorice. Eight 

 species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. 

 Slips from the roots with eyes. Planted 

 in the spring. Light sandy soil. See 



and not dried off until the second year, [ Liquorice. 

 as the small fibres are not sufficiently , GLYPHYTERYX. A genus of moths, 

 strong to cause them to grow vigor-' " G. Boese/Za, Spinach Moth, appears 

 ously in spring. This remark is also I in the spring and throughout the sum- 

 applicable to young plants raised from 1 mer. It is blackish-brown coloured, 

 cuttings. I Caterpillar yellowish green. Feeds 



" Gloxinias are readily propagated j on spinach, strawberry blite, &c., and 

 even by a single leaf pressed firmly in- lives three or four together, under a 

 to the soil, which may be the same as 1 web on the leaves." 

 is used for seeds. | Mr. Curtis says, that "when fully fed 



^'Culture. — The roots should be al- ^ the caterpillars leave the plants on 

 lowed to become quite dry during au- I which they have been subsisting, and 

 tumn, and continue so all the winter ; 1 seek some crack in a tree or wall, 

 they should not be allowed to become ^ where they spin a slight cocoon, and 

 dry, however, all at once, but by de- , change to pupa; in this state they re- 

 grces. While they are in this state the I main ten or twelve days, when the per- 

 pots may be laid on their sides, on a feet insect emerges. The moth, when 

 dry shelf in the green-house until Feb- [ its wings are expanded, is about five 

 ruary or March, but February is the lines long ; the head, body, and feet 

 best time for starting them. In potting are black, with a shining metallic ap- 

 them, the earth should be carefully : pearance. The antenna; are black with 

 shaken from the bulbs, which should be i white rings, and the upper wings are 

 repotted in a mixture of one-half de- [ yellow, with black edges, and about five 

 cayed vegetable mould, and one-half i silvery spots disposed in the shape of a 

 good rich loam, with the addition of a cross ; the under wings are blackish, 

 little sand or charcoal. land, as well as the upper, have long 



" The pots should be well drained, j fringes. It is difficult to find means to 

 In planting, press the roots gently on destroy so minute an enemy as the pre- 

 the surface of the soil, and give them | sent; but where it attacks spinach it is 

 no water for some time, as the moisture ; much better to pull up the plants with 

 of the pot will be sufficient for them at | the caterpillars on them, and burn 

 first. them ; where they appear only in small 



"After they are all potted, remove quantities, hand-picking may answer 

 them to a frame where the temperature > very well." — Gard. Chron. 

 is about 60^, and when they have com- 1 GMELINA. Five species. Stove or 

 menced growing, give them a little green-house evergreen trees. Cuttings, 

 water, increasing the quantity as they Rich loam and peat, and a very strong 

 advance in growth. A little air should heat, 

 be given them in fine weather. \ GNAPHALIUM. Six species. Chiefly 



"By the middle of May they will hardy plants. G. albescens, an evergreen 

 have attained a good size, and some of shrub. G. purpuritim. The shrubby 

 them will be showing flowers, when and herbaceous increase by cuttings and 

 they may be removed to the green- division; the annuals and biennials by 

 house, when nothing except proper at- seeds. Rich light soil, 

 tention to watering them is required. GNIDIA. Seventeen species. Green- 

 When the plants have done flowering, house and evergreen shrubs. Young 

 water should be gradually withheld. shoots planted in sand. Peat soil. 



" It often happens, however, that QOAT MOTH. See Bombyx. 

 some of the species continue in a grow- 



ing state all the winter, for instance 

 G. caulescens, which is unlike any of 

 the others in habit and manner of 

 growth." — Gard. Chron. 

 GLYCINE. Eight species. Stove or 



GOAT'S BEARD. Spiraa aruncus. 

 GOAT'S FOOT. Oxalis caprina. 

 GOAT'S ORIGANUM. Thymus Tra- 

 goriganum. 



GOAT'S RUE. Galega. 



