124 | PLANT PROPAGATION 
free-flowering border flowers are easily raised from seed 
sown indoors in April to provide plants for putting out 
in June., They may also be propagated by cuttings of 
young shoots inserted under handlights or in a cold 
frame in August. The best time for dividing the roots 
_ of the perennial kinds is in March. 
GALANTHUS (SNOWDROP).—Seeds are rarely used, 
although they grow very well, as the seedlings take — 
three years to reach flowering size, while offsets 
naturally produced in tolerable abundance will often 
blossom in a year. | 
GaLax.—This neat little rock or border plant is 
propagated by dividing the clumps in autumn. 
GaLeca (Goat’s Rue).—There is no difficulty in 
propagating these useful border flowers by division in 
autumn or spring. Seeds may also be sown in a cold 
frame in October, or outdoors in sunny positions in 
April. 
GALTONIA.—The best species to grow is G. candicans 
(syn. Hyacinthus candicans), which is propagated by 
offsets from the old bulbs. Seedlings take from four to 
five years before arriving at a flowering stage. 
GarDENIA.—These favourite stove flowering shrubs 
are propagated without much difficulty if half-ripened, 
healthy shoots are selected for cuttings in January, 
especially if they can be taken off with a heel of the old 
wood attached. Insert them singly in small pots filled 
with a mixture of sand and peat, and plunge the pots in 
a bottom heat of 75 degrees in a close case or cover 
with bell-glasses. 
Gar.ic.—-This plant of the Onion family is increased 
by dividing the cloves of the bulbs and planting them 
with a shallow covering of about an inch of soil in the 
