GLOXINIA 



using partly matured medium sized leaves with a small 

 portion of leaf -stalk attached (Fig. 629, p. 423). These 

 may lie inserted in an ordinary propagating bed, where, 

 if kept rather on the dry side, they will soon root and form 

 tubers, when they may bo potted and grown on. Seeds 

 should be sown in a warm temperature early in Febru- 

 pans or shallow boxes containing a finely sifted 



GLYCYRRHIZA 



653 



mixture of peat, leaf -mold a 

 proportions. The seetlliiisrs 

 ten days. whpi\ L'r.-:it .-iir.- 



I silver s 

 iUbeffint 



in about equal 

 appear in about 



. - I. rra it. In 



year ae- 

 «. Even 

 hould be 



id at- 



pends lari;. I;, ■;;:.. . ■ . 

 in their nmst :ii-ni .■ ^l■M^^ ih tlir w.ii. r :, 

 given from the spout of a watering can 

 to wet the leaves, though they like a ■ 

 mosphere during their growing season. As soon as the 

 seedlings can be conveniently handled, they should be 

 potted singly into thumb pots and grown on rapidly, 

 using in subsequent shifts a mixture of two parts leaf- 

 mold, 1 part good fibrous loam and 1 part peat. The 

 plants must be well shaded from sunlight and placed in 

 a position free from draughts. The seedlings should 

 begin to flower by the middle of August when they 

 should be given an abundance of air After fl jwermg, 



the leaves ■ 



gradualh 



ripened 



shii 



■111 beg,, 



be started at this time thuosing tl I 1 1 



pear most active and the reraaindei 1 II 111 k 

 for another month this will give a i I I | 1 



of blossoming The tubers should hi U tl 11 1 

 shaken off and be potted again in clean well di ained pots, 

 using sizes just large enough to accommodate the tubers, 

 the compost being the same mixture as before recom- 



919. Modern Gloxinia blooms (X 



mended. They should be given but little water until 

 active root growth commences. As soon as the pots are 

 filled with roots, they should be shifted on at once into 

 the jiots they are intended to flower in, as frequent 

 shifts would more or less damage their leaves, which 

 have a tendency to cling round the sides of the pots. 

 The first batch should come into flower in June. When 



carefully grown. Gloxinias are particularly free from 

 insect pests or fungous diseases, and the same tubers can 

 be grown for several years. Edward J. CiJramG. 



As Gloxinias are essentially tropical plants, they re- 

 quire a temperature of (iO° (night) if started early; yet 

 seedlings raised during summer time do splendidly when 

 planted in coldframes "U hen a select collection is de- 

 sired It IS customary to plant hundreds of seedlings m 

 fram s t r tb i r VI i en n iit\ t these will 



str 



ered Then 

 shades are tl 

 latest plants 

 Although cu! 

 watering so 

 never been 

 except when t 

 ahzetl t.ti 



Th 



1 ifei. we have 



tions closely, 



m but we re- 



t dull weather. 



1 t t ^ tU f hage IS 



t fr m the w t r in .kii g a de- 



\ fc ln.,e takii „ aw i\ the luster 



lth-\ tndeffectne aj i eirance to 



T D Hatfield 



GLYCfiEIA ReferiLd 



r sfT Perhaps 



ud Australia, 

 llied to Doll- 

 ies are distm- 

 \ llarj racemes; 

 uiu tl L 1 ctiole kiflets(3) 

 r glol ular and pea like In 

 1 only m the So-s Bean G. 





stipules verj small and tiic t 

 large and thin seeds short c 

 this country Glycine is know 

 hispida, Maxim (ti„ 1 j 



the Soja Be 

 2-4 ft high 1 

 axillary clust 



strictionsbetwetutl I iieseelsaiLi irh globu- 



lar pea like usualh white (e Iig IJl p IJO) In China 

 and Japan the beans are much used for hunnn food, 

 but m this country the pi int is grown f r forage hav- 

 ing 1 p nin to attnct ntt i t n nl t " A nrs i The 

 1 1 t r n I 1 f r 



wil 1 I II 1 t 1 1 t Gly- 



cine S whi h IS wil 1 m J ipin These 



I I y some authors and sep arated 

 t*^ Say Fl Jap J 1(18 Maiim. 

 1 I 18 398) For purposes of per- 



I uiT\ nl 1 t 1 t] u they may well be kept separate 

 lu the books The St \ Beau has also been separated as 

 adistmet genus under the name of 5'o;a /a pida Moench; 

 but this dispositicn is now mostly given u] For the 

 economic merits of S05 Beans, see various expeiiment 

 station reports also Farmers Bull 08 IT S Dept of 

 Agric It has been recommended as a drought resisting 

 crop 



Glycine was once applied to Wistaria. It is sometimes 

 used for that genus at the present day in foreign lists. 

 L. H. B. 



GLYCYEEHlZA (Greek, sweet root). Legumindsa: 

 Licorice, also spelled Liquorice, and Lickorice. This 

 genus contains the plant whose roots produce the Licor- 

 ice of commerce. Seeds in pods are listed by a few 

 dealers with miscellaneous agricultural seeds. The 

 genus has about a dozen widely scattered species of 

 perennial herbs, often glandular: Ivs. odd-pinnate; Ifts. 

 of indefinite number, rarely 3, entire, with minute glands 

 or teeth: fls.blue, violet, white or yellowish, in axillary 

 racemes or spikes, which are peduncled or sessile. 



gljtbra, Linn. Height 3-4 ft. : Ifts. ovate, subretuse, 

 subglutinous beneath : spikes peduncled, shorter than 

 the Ivs.: fls. distant: pods glabrous, 3-4-seeded. Sum- 

 mer and autumn. ^. jj. 



