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GAR 



G. Co'wa (Cowa). 20. Yellow, East Indies. 

 1822. 



Gambo'gia (Gamboge). 30. Yellow. East 



Indies. 1820. 



Mangosta'na (Mangosteen). 20. Purple. 



Java. 1789- 



GARDEN BALSAM. Justi'cia peclora'lis. 



GARDEN BEETLE. In June and July, 

 a small, pretty beetle very often may be 

 found among the petals of white roses. 

 It is nearly half an inch long, and 

 rather less than a quarter of an inch 

 broad. Its wing-cases are reddish 

 brown, shining, and shorter than the 

 body; the body and head are dark 

 green, and the antennae reddish, having 

 at their ends a dark green club. This is 

 the garden beetle (Phyllope'rtha horti'- 

 cola and Melolo'ntha hortl'cola of some): 

 it feeds on the leaves of apples, pears, 

 and roses, gnawing them full of small 

 holes, and even transferring its attacks 

 to the young fruit of the apple. During 

 the latter part of July the female retires 

 into the earth for the purpose of there 

 depositing her eggs, from which the 

 grubs speedily are produced, and feed 

 upon the roots of plants. The only 

 mode of reducing the number of these 

 beetles is by searching for them during 

 the evening, when, if detected, they 

 stiffen their outstretched legs, and feign 

 death; but in the day they fly about 

 swiftly, and are captured with great 

 difficulty. 



GAEDEN PEBBLE MOTH (Sco'pula 

 forficula'ris}. The perfect insect, says 

 Mr. Curtis, measures rather more than 

 an inch across, when its wings are 

 expanded. The upper pair are hazel- 

 coloured, with four stripes, two of which 

 are distinct, and the other faint; the 

 under wings as well as the body are 

 whitish, and on the former, near the 

 centre, there is a curved brown streak, 

 and another black on the margin. The 

 first brood of caterpillars occurs in May, 

 and the second in the autumn ; and 

 when very numerous they do consider- 

 able injury to cabbages and plantations 

 of horse-radish. The caterpillar is eight 

 or ten lines long, with the head of a 

 light brown colour, and the body is 

 yellowish green, with black longitudinal 

 stripes. Like other caterpillars, it may 

 be destroyed by being dusted with white 

 hellebore powder. 



GARDENEE. The day is gone when 

 the spade and the blue apron were the 

 only appropriate devices for the gar- 

 dener; he must now not only have a 

 thorough practical knowledge of liis 

 art, but 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 gar- 

 dener, there are none so important as 

 botany and chemistry botany, phy- 

 siological as well as classical chemis- 

 try, especially as applied to the exami- 

 nation of organic nature. The relative 

 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 necessa- 

 rily hardy, and the open air is their 

 appropriate whereabouts, should have 

 work assigned to them appropriate to 

 the clemency 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 

 a gardener : 



1. Let all things be done orderly. 



2. Be always ready to give an account 

 of your stewardship. 



GARDENER'S GARTER. Aru'ndo. 



GARDE'NIA. (Named after Dr. Gar- 

 den, an American. Nat. ord., Cincho- 

 nads [Cinchonaceae]. Linn., 5-Pentan- 

 dria I-Monogynia.) 



Sweet-scented evergreen shrubs. Cuttings 

 of shoots half ripe, in sand, under glass, and in 

 a moist bottom-heat ; this moist heat, when 

 growing and when starting into bloom, is the 

 ! very life of all the stove species. Even the 

 greenhouse kinds 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 ; hard- 

 ened off and ripened by exposure to light and 

 air in autumn, rested in a cool and dryish atmo- 

 sphere in winter, and started into bloom in a 

 moist heat again, and then removed to the 

 greenhouse; peat and loam. Summer temp., 

 60 to 85 ; winter, 45 to 55. 



GREENHOUSE. 



G. amae'na (pleasing). 4. Pink. July. China. 

 ang-ustifo'lia (mirrow-leaved). 3, White* 

 1823. 



