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is to get the best view from a summer house in the 

 corner (6), and from the windows of the principal rooms. 

 The plan shown at Fig. 80 is one that might be adopted on a 

 rather large and expensive scale for a Garden connected 

 with a good-sized villa. The outside boundary is usually a 

 wall, and in this case it is intended to be hidden by a row 

 of dwarf Robinias and an irregular belt of shrubs. These 



FIG. 80. PLAN FOR VILLA GARDEN. 



are followed by turf and a walk of an irregular outline, 

 which ends in a rustic summer house at one corner (a) 

 and has a garden seat at another. A greenhouse joins 

 the residence, which is not shown in the figure ; and the 

 lawn, situated in the middle, has a few clumps of ever- 

 green flowering shrubs arranged in the corners and 

 curves formed by the walks. Considerable expense would 



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be incurred in stocking and properly keeping up a 

 Garden of this description ; but it would not require to be 

 frequently renewed, like a quantity of summer flower beds. 



GARDEN CHESS. See Cress, Garden. 



GARDENER'S GARTER. See Phalaris arnn- 

 dinacea variegata. 



GARDEN FRAMES. See Frames, 

 Garden. 



GARDENIA (named in honour of Alexander 

 Garden, M.D., of Charlestown, Carolina, one of 

 the correspondents of Ellis and Linnseus). In- 

 cluding Rothmannia. OBD. Rubiaceoe. A genus 

 comprising about sixty species of elegant stove 

 or greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs, indi- 

 genous to tropical Asia, as well as the Capo 

 of Good Hope. Flowers white, axillary or ter- 

 minal, usually solitary, and generally sweet- 

 scented ; corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, 

 having the tube much longer than the calyx, 

 and the limb twisted in aestivation, but after- 

 wards spreading. Leaves opposite, rarely 

 whorled. The double forms of O. florida and 

 O. radicans produce white flowers that are 

 amongst the most beautiful and highly per- 

 fumed of any in cultivation. Gardenias are 

 principally grown for the use of the flowers 

 in a cut state, as these are in great demand, 

 and appear so much in a succession as not to 

 render the plants sufficiently attractive by their 

 presence for ordinary decoration, excepting that 

 of the stove. Propagation is readily effected by 

 cuttings. Strong, healthy ones should be se- 

 lected, preferably with a heel attached, such as 

 those obtained from the points of side shoots, 

 half or fully ripened. Early in January is the 

 best time to propagate for allowing the plants 

 a long season to grow before flowering the next 

 winter ; but almost any time in the year will 

 do when suitable cuttings can be secured. They 

 should be inserted singly in small pots of sandy 

 peat, unless required in large quantities, when 

 this plan would demand too much space, and 

 the alternative of placing several in a larger 

 size would have to be adopted. The pots should 

 be plunged in a bottom heat of about 75deg., 

 in an inclosed frame of the propagating house, 

 and allowed to remain there until the cuttings 

 are rooted. 



Cultivation. Gardenias are not difficult to 

 cultivate, provided they have plenty of heat 

 and moisture during the growing season, and are 

 kept free from insects. These conditions en- 

 courage the production of strong healthy shoots, 

 which, after being ripened, and the plants 

 rested, supply a large quantity of flowers from 

 the points. The young plants, when rooted, 

 should be hardened from the frame to the open 

 house, and potted on by liberal shifts as becomes 

 requisite, in a lumpy compost of two-thirds 

 peat to one of fibry loam, with an addition of 

 some charcoal. Where bottom heat is not at 

 command, a hotbed of fermenting material is 

 frequently made up in a house, for plunging the 

 pots in, the house itself being heated by pipes 

 in the ordinary way. If carefully managed, and 

 not allowed to over-heat, this plan is generally attended 

 with good results. Very large plants may be obtained, 

 under proper treatment, in one season ; and if a succession 

 is propagated occasionally to follow others, and thus some 

 are in different stages of growth, the supply of flowers 

 may be considerably prolonged. After the season's growth 

 is completed, a lower temperature and more air should 



