CATALOGUE OF GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. Ill 



yellow-colourecl blossoms from March to May, under good 

 culture. 



Ficus elaslica, India-rubber tree, and Ficus mistralis, are 

 both evergreen plants, and grow luxuriantly in a green- 

 house ; the foliage, which is large and glossy, is pink on the 

 under side. 



Fims, Fig Tree. A plant easily cultivated, of which 

 there are many species and varieties, which, kept in pots or 

 tubs, in a temperature adapted to the Orange tree, will fruit 

 freely, and ripen two crops a year. 



Fuchsia, Lady's Ear-drop. Of this beautiful shrub there 

 are several varieties, producing clusters of small scarlet 

 flowers, the stamens of which are encircled with a petal of 

 purple ; in bloom from April to September. 



Gardenia, Cape Jasmine. A very popular evergreen 

 plant, producing white fragrant rose-like flowers from May 

 to August. There are several species and. varieties, some 

 of which are more dwarfish than others, but all are desirable. 



Gelsemium nitidum, Carolina Jasmine. A beautiful climb- 

 ing evergreen, producing in the month of May large yellow 

 trumpet-like blossoms, of delicious fragrance. 



Gloxinia. A desirable herbaceous plant, of which there 

 are several varieties, yielding beautiful showy flowers ; 

 colours, blue, lilac, and white. 



Gnapalium, Everlasting Flower. Of this plant there are 

 leveral species or varieties, some of which yield clusters of 

 yellow flowers, and others red, from March to June. 



Gnidia, Flax-leaved Gnidia. A dwarf shrub, of which 

 there are several varieties, furnishing pretty tubular and 

 corymbose straw-coloured flowers in the winter and spring. 



Grevillea. There are several species of this evergreen 

 dwarf shrub, which are very handsome in flower and foliage. 

 The flowers of some grow in racemose spikes, and of others 

 on flowering branches ; the colours are white, rose, green, 

 and straw or light yellow. They yield seed, and are easily 

 cultivated. 



