46 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



GILIA 



The prominence given at recent exhibitions to the biennial 

 Gilia cononopifolia {Polcmoniacece) will probably have the effect 

 of bringing the annual species into notice. These latter are 

 hardy, but sometimes the Autumn-raised seedlings are severely 

 thinned by our damp and cold winters unless protected, 

 though on light warm soils the losses are few. Where the 

 Gilias are appreciated, and especially where bees are kept, a 

 sowing should be made under glass in March, and another 

 one in the open in April ; by this means a succession is 

 secured. The plants resulting from a September sowing will, 

 of course, be the earliest to flower. 



The best are G. achi/lecefolia, i\ foot, purple-blue; G. an- 

 drosacea (syn. Leptosiphon androsaceus), 9 inches, lilac or pink 

 with yellowish throat (there arc several garden forms); G. 

 capitata, i foot, blue ; G. densiflora (syn. Leptosiphon detisi- 

 florus) and G. d. albus, i foot, respectively rosy-lilac and white, 

 possess an exquisite beauty, and are generally known as 

 Leptosiphons ; G. dianthoidcs, 6 inches, lilac ; G. ladniata, 9 

 inches, purple ; G. micraniha, 9 inches, rose ; and G. tricolor, 

 I foot, in various colours, but chiefly blue, violet, or white, 

 with yellowish centre. Snow Queen appears to be a white, 

 yellow-centred variety, and Nivalis is probably also a white 

 form, while minima is a dwarfer and later flowering form 

 with blue flowers, and a capital subject for the Rock garden or 

 for an edging. Those who have not grown the Gilias should 

 certainly give them a trial. 



GYMNOLOMIA 



Gyynnolomia multiflora {Compositce) may be aptly described 

 as a miniature Sunflower. It is hardy, though probably best 



