GARDEN FLOWERS. l8l 



GOLDYLOCKS. See CHRYSOCOMA. 



GOMPHRENA. Globe Amaranth. [Amaranthaceas.] Pretty 

 plants, usually grown as annuals. The chief kind is G. glo- 

 bosa commonly called Globe Amaranth. The seeds should 

 be thinly sown in a hot-bed in April. As soon as the young 

 plants are large enough to be handled, they should be trans- 

 planted to a frame, and set four inches apart, or into pots, 

 where they may grow until all danger of frost is over, when 

 they may be transplanted to the garden. They seed freely ; 

 and the flowers continue beautiful a long time after they are 

 gathered and dried, the petals being chaffy, or scaly, like 

 those of Everlasting flowers. G. pulchdla, another pretty 

 annual kind, though not as yet very commonly grown, de- 

 serves to be so. 



G. globosa (globe); stove annual; 18 inches; flowers purple 

 or white, in July; India; 1714. G. pulchella (pretty); stove 

 annual ; 18 inches ; flowers rose-red, in July ; Brazil ; 1843. 



There are varieties with white, pink, and orange flowers. 



GOODYERA. [Orchidaceae.] A genus of pretty terres- 

 trial orchids, with pretty variegated foliage. They need a 

 sandy peat or leaf-mould, and a shady situation. Propa- 

 gated by offsets. 



G. pubescens (downy) ; hardy perennial ; 6 inches ; flowers 

 white, in July; North America; 1802. G. repens (creeping); 

 hardy perennial ; 4 inches ; flowers white, in July ; North 

 America. 



GOURD ORNAMENTAL. See CUCURBITA. 



GRAPE HYACINTH. See MUSCARI. 



GRAMMANTHES. [Crassulaceae.] Pretty annual plants 

 with starry flowers, flourishing in warm sunny situations. 

 Propagated by seed sown in sandy loam, and transplanted 

 to garden. 



G. chloraflora (yellow-flowered) ; half-hardy annual ; 6 inch- 



