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tudinal stripes. Like other caterpillars, 

 it may be destroyed by being dusted with 

 white hellebore powder. 



GARDENER. The day is gone when 

 trie spade arid tlie blue apron were the 

 only appropriate devices for the gardener. 

 He must now not only have a thorough 

 practical knowledge of his art, hut he 

 must also have an intimate acquaintance 

 with its sciences. No man can have 

 stored in his mind too much knowledge ; 

 but there are always some branches of 

 information of more value than others. 

 Of these, to the gardener, there are none 

 so important as botany and chemistry 

 botany, physiological as well as classical 

 chemistry, especially as applied to the ex- 

 amination of organic nature. The rela- 

 tive duties between the gardener and his 

 master are embodied in that universal 

 rule Do as you would be done by. The 

 head gardener is the superior of the 

 valet or butler ; for his education and 

 knowledge are of a higher order. The 

 under gardeners, though necessarily 

 hardy, and the open air is their appro- 

 priate whereabouts, should have work 

 assigned to them suitable to the cle- 

 mency or inclemency of the season; for 

 no men are more liable to suffer early 

 in life from rheumatism. There are two 

 golden sentences which we would have 

 always kept in mind by the gardener : 



1. Let all things be done orderly. 



2. Be always ready to give an account 

 of your stewardship. 



GARDENER'S GARTER. Phalaris. 



GARDE'NIA. (Named after Dr. Garden, 

 an American. Nat. ord., Cinchonads 

 [Cinchonaceae]. Linn., 5-Pentandria 1- 

 Afonogynia.") 



Sweet-scented evergreen shrubs. Cuttings of 

 saoots half ripe, in sand, under glass, and in a 

 moist bottom-heat. This moist heat, when grow- 

 ing and when starting into bloom, is the very life 

 of all the stove species. Even the greenhouse 

 Mnds do best when pruned after flowering, grown 

 rapidly afterwards ; if in a moist atmosphere from 

 decomposing material, such as dung and leaves, 

 all the better ; hardened off and ripened by ex- 

 posure to light and air in autumn, rested in a cool 

 and dryish atmosphere in winter, and started into 

 bloom in a moist heat again, and then removed to 

 the greenhouse; peat and loam. Summer temp., 

 0>r to 85; winter, 45 to 55. 



GREENHOUSE. 

 G. ama>.'na (pleasing). 4. Pink. July. China. 



anifustifo'lia (narrow-leaved). 3. White. 1823. 



fio'rida (flowery). 5. Pale yellow. August. 



China. 1754. 

 Fortu'ni (Fortune's double-flowered'}. 5. 



White. July. North China. 1844. 

 ple'nu (double-lowered). H. Pale yellow. 



August. China. 1754. 



G. flo'rida si'mfilici (s\ng\e.Jiwfred). 5. White. 

 January. K. [ml. 1831. 



globo'x.i (elobe-/n<i7erf). White. June. Caf- 



frftria. 



ra'dicuns (rooting). 1. White. June. China. 



1804. 



Rothmn'nii (Rothman's). 10. Pale yellow. 



July. Cape of Good Hope. 1774. 



spino'sa (spiny). 8. White. July. China. 1SOO, 



Thunbe'rgii (Thunberg's). 6. White. Fe- 



bruary. Cape of Good Hope. 1773. 



STOVE. 



G. arma'ta (armed). 10. White. July. W. Ind 

 1813. 



campanula! ta (ladl-flowered) . E. Ind. 1815, 



Dewnia'na (Duke of Devonshire's). 6. While. 



September, Sierra Leone. 1845. 



dumeto'rum (thicket). 6. White. July. E. 



Ind. 1777. 



fra'grans (fragrant). 4. White. E. Ind. 1820. 



latifu'lia (broad-leaved). 7. Pale yellow. 



E- Ind. 1/87. 



longisty'la (long-styled). 6. Green, white. 



June. W.Africa. 1845. 



lu'cida (shining). 4. White. E. Ind. 1819. 



meliei'fera (chipper- bearing). 5. Crcaiu 



Sierra Leone- 



m<mta'na (mountain). 8. White. E. Ind. 1R10,, 



ni'tida (shining-teaoerf). 3. White. October. 



Sierra Leone. 



pane'ttfi (pavetta-like). 6. White. July. E. 



Ind. 1817. 



Sherbou' rniee (Mrs. Sherbourne's). 3. White, 



red. Juno. Sierra Leone. 1842. Climber. 



Stanleya'na (Stanley's. Earl of Derby's). 6. 



White, spotted red. June. Sierra Leone. 

 1843. 



GARDENING is the art of cultivating 

 and arranging plants, so as to obtain 

 from them the greatest amount of pro- 

 duce and of beauty. 



GARDEN ROCAMBOLE. A' Ilium ophios- 

 co'rodon. 



GARDEN SWIFT. (Hepialas lupztlnus.) 

 The caterpillar of this moth is more in- 

 discriminate in its attacks upon our plants 

 than any other ravager of the garden. 

 The roots of the auriculas, snowdrops, 

 bear's-ear, parsnips, lettuces, celery, pota- 

 toes, and strawberries, have all been ob- 

 served destroyed by this larva. The 

 mcih, usually, is chalky -brown, head 

 and thorax woolly, and its upper wings 

 dark, bright brown, with a broad line of 

 white ; but sometimes this is absent, and 

 at other times the upper wings are chalky- 

 white. These moths appear about the 

 end of May, and are very abundant in 

 the evening in meadows and other grassy 

 places. They deposit their eggs ap- 

 parently without discrimination, which 

 soon hatch, and the caterpillars produced 

 are cylindrical, and yellowish-white, with 

 black dots and hairs on the upper part 

 and sides of their segments. The cater- 

 pillar changes to an ochreous, shilling, 

 cylindrical pupa. Gard. Chron. 



