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stature and technical details, as well as in its ability to be at home on acid 

 soils, both dry and wet. It has value as rough ground cover for roadside 

 plantings. 



GAYLUSSAGIA BRACHYCERA Box Huckleberry 



A low, spreading, evergreen plant which can, in reasonably moist, sandy or 

 peaty soil, reach out to cover large areas with a mass of Box-like foliage. It 

 can withstand light shade and serve as a rockery plant. 



Genista hispanica SPANISH BrOOM 



A top-tender, much-branched, slightly spiny, half-evergreen shrub which 

 has terminal clusters of yellow flowers in May or June. It may be looked 

 upon as a plant for dry, sheltered rock gardens in warmer sections. 



GENISTA PILOSA SlLKY-LEAF BROOM 



A somewhat hardier, prostrate shrub with greenish stems which root down 

 as they extend. Its dark foliage and yellow flowers from May to July make 

 it an interesting plant for well-drained locations in the rock garden. 



GENISTA SAGITTALIS 



Another low, mat-forming shrub which has winged stems, rounded leaves, 

 and yellow flowers in June or July. A reasonably hardy rock-garden plant. 



Germander — See Teucrium 



GINKGO BILOBA Maidenhair Tree 



Classed botanically with the evergreens, this relic species, preserved in 

 Oriental temple grounds, though awkward appearing while young, in time 

 can build up into a broad-headed, interesting-textured deciduous specimen 

 some hundred and twenty feet tall. Its common name aptly characterizes 

 its foliage. Because of the untidiness and offensive smell occasioned by the 

 fall of the fruits in autumn, prudence dictates the use of the male form only. 

 Var. fastigiata is a narrow, pyramidal tree of upright branching which lacks 

 the fine texture and full-bodied effect of Quercus robur var. fastigiata, or of 

 several other columnar forms. 



Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ThORNLESS HONEY-LOCUST 



This is a thornless form of the well-known spiny-stemmed, usually multiple- 

 branched, type plant. 



Goldenrain-Tree — See Koelreuteria 



GORDONIA ALATAMAHA Franklinia 



In the North, usually a gaunt shrub with large, shining, deciduous leaves 

 and pure-white flowers in late September or early October. It has romantic 

 interest because of association with John Bartram, and its subsequent dis- 

 appearance from the section of its discovery. Except south of Boston, it must 

 be grown in sheltered spots. Because of its lanky appearance, it can well be 

 pushed into a mixed planting in moist or peaty soil. If pruned severely in 

 spring, it will grow bulky. 



Grape — See Vitis 



Gymnocladus dioeca KENTUCKY CoFFEE-TREE 



A tall, bare-boled, few-branched, deciduous tree with compound leaves and 

 large, flattened seed pods. Not too valuable as a lawn or street tree because 

 of its liking for moist soil and the large amount of litter which it drops. 



