GLOBULARIA. 



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leaves are deeply cut, and, planted 

 close, are effective either in masses or 

 lines. To ensure strong plants for 

 winter borders or beds, seed should be 

 sown about May, as the plant is a 

 biennial. When in bloom it makes a 

 striking border plant, the flowers being 

 large and orange-red. G. Fischeri is 

 a handsome plant ; its snow-white 

 woolly foliage is very telling, and its 

 blossom is of an unusual flame colour. 

 G. corniculatum is similar, but not so 

 handsome. Both require the same 

 treatment as G. luteum. 



GLOBULARIA (Globe Daisy}. 

 Interesting and dwarf alpine plants, 

 good on the rock garden in light and 

 peaty soils. G. Alypum is among the 

 best ; it inhabits dry rocks. Other 

 kinds are G. cordifolia, G. nana, G. 

 nudicaulis, and G. trichosantha. All 

 are blue flowered. 



GOODYERA (Rattlesnake Plantain). 

 A beautiful little Orchid, G. pubes- 

 cens having leaves close to the ground, 

 delicately veined with silver ; hardy, 

 distinct, and charming, though its 

 flowers are not showy. It has long 

 been grown in botanic and choice 

 collections, thriving in a shady posi- 

 tion such as may be found in a good 

 rock garden, in moist peaty soil, with 

 here and there a soft sandstone for its 

 roots to run among. G. repens and 

 Menziesi are less desirable and much 

 rarer. N. America. 



GORDONIA. Handsome flowering 

 shrubs allied to Camellia, rare in gar- 

 dens, and in the case of G. pubescens, 

 extinct as a wild tree. Most of the 

 species are tender shrubs from Asia, 

 but two fairly hardy kinds will grow 

 in warm and sheltered places of the 

 south, and near the coast. These 

 come from the " Pine Barrens " of 

 Virginia and Florida, a region of sandy 

 peat-bogs made beautiful by dense 

 thickets of Gordonia Lasianthus in 

 every stage of growth, from that of a 

 low shrub to trees of 70 feet or more. 

 The long black roots run out just 

 beneath the thin peaty layers, and the 

 ground being covered deep with moss, 

 it remains moist and cool during the 

 hottest summer. G. pubescens grew 

 under similar conditions on the banks 

 of the Altamaha River in Georgia, but 

 only two or three plants were ever 

 found, and it seems long since to have 

 disappeared altogether, those to be 

 found in gardens having all come from 

 one tree. They should therefore stand 

 in sunny and sheltered spots, with a 



constantly moist soil of sandy peat or 

 leaf-mould, and at the same time per- 

 fect drainage. I may, however, say 

 that I have never seen Gordonia in 

 flower but once, in a park in Phila- 

 delphia many years ago, and I doubt 

 very much if any of them be hardy in 

 this country. 



G. GRANDIS, a tender kind with creamy- 

 white flowers and glossy leaves, is grown 

 upon walls in a few of the warmest gardens 

 of Cornwall, but it is really a greenhouse 

 plant. 



G. LASIANTHUS (Loblolly Bay) with us 

 rarely exceeds 10 or 12 feet, growing as a 

 shapely pyramid, with glossy dark green 

 leaves almost evergreen in a mild winter. 

 Before falling they take golden, crimson, 

 and purple tints, which are charming in 

 mid-winter after such tints have mostly 

 disappeared. The fragrant white flowers 

 come in succession from July to Septem- 

 ber, their broad-cupped petals set off by 

 golden stamens. 



G. PUBESCENS is similar in general effect, 

 but loses its leaves in winter and is 

 smaller, hardly exceeding a low shrub 

 with us. It may be known by its thinner 

 leaves coated underneath with a pale 

 down, the shorter stems of its hairy 

 flowers, and the thin smooth bark of 

 the stems. The flowers are larger and 

 less fragrant than in G. Lasianthus, 

 3 inches or more across ; in the States 

 they come early in August, but with us 

 not much before September, and begin- 

 ning late they are less abundant. The 

 leaves turn a fine scarlet in autumn. 

 While somewhat hardier than the Lob- 

 lolly Bay, it is perhaps more difficult 

 to manage in other ways. 



GRAMMANTHES. A pretty half- 

 hardy annual, G. gentianoides being a 

 capital plant for the dry parts of a 

 rock garden, about 2 inches high, 

 forming a dense tuft, with fleshy leaves 

 about | inch long, and many flowers 

 about f inch across ; orange when 

 first expanded, with a distinct V-shaped 

 mark at the base of each petal, but 

 finally assuming a deep red. Seeds 

 should be sown in heat in February 

 and March, and the seedlings planted 

 out in May. Stonecrop family. S. 

 Africa. 



GREVILLEA. Australian shrubs, 

 generally grown in the greenhouse, 

 but a few are quite hardy enough for 

 wall culture ; and G. sulphur ea, the 

 hardiest in cultivation, lives against 

 walls about London. Its pale yellow 

 flowers, of curious shape, as in all 

 Grevilleas, come throughout the sum- 

 mer. G. , rosmarinifolia is another 

 hardy kind with Rosemary-like leaves 



