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soil should be a rich sandy compost, the pots large, twelve to six- 

 teen inches in diameter the drainage good. Large bulbs 

 should be planted from three or four inches deep, smaller bulbs 

 two inches. In dry weather, copious watering is necessary. At 

 first expose the pots to full sunshine till noon only. When the 

 leaves turn yellow in November, let the bulbs thoroughly dry, then 

 store them in dry earth or sand till next growing season at the 

 end of May. Of the Gandavensis section of Gladiolus, G. 

 Bowienses and Brenchleyiensis, are the most showy, 



Glaucium Papaveracece, Glaucium Psrsicum. These are very 

 handsome plants, and showy, either in borders or patches, they 

 require a moderate good soil, the plants not too near each other, 

 and the seed sown at the end of the rains. They are natives of 

 the south of Europe and Persia. The colours red, orange, yellow 

 and purple. 



Globe Amaranth. Vide Gompjirena. 



Gloriosa, Superba, Liliacece, Hind. Butchnag, from Gloriosus, 

 Magnificent. This beautiful lily is a creeper, and blossoms at the 

 commencement of the rains ; it is found in the beds of ravines and 

 edges of rivers. The flowers are of a white, yellow and orange 

 colour, the petals long and fringed. It lasts about eight days, 

 undergoing various changes during that time. The root is a 

 strong poison. 



Gloxinia. Well suited for pot gardening, grouped together in 

 a mass, no flowers are more showy or brilliant, of all the interme~ 

 diate colours from white to purple and carmine, &c,, may be raised 

 from seed or imported roots or by division of leaves. There are 

 two kinds, one with erect flowers and the other drooping, they 

 thrive during the rainy season. To raise them from seed, fill the 

 pots or pans half full of crocks, (broken tiles) over which place a 

 layer of moss, and then fill up the pot with fine sand and leaf -mould, 

 press the soil down firmly in the pot, and water it freely, when 

 settled, sow the seed on the surface, and do not cover it at all with 

 mould, it requires no such covering. Place a bell-glass or pane of 

 glass over the pot, and keep it in a shady place watering the sur- 

 face gently daily, in a fortnight or ten days the seed will germinate 

 when the plants have formed three or four leaves, prick them off 



