LIST OF FLOWERS 



together for good effect, that they must be allowed proper room for 

 development. 



GOLDEN ROD. See Solidago. 



GOURD. All who have seen a good collection of Gourds can 

 scarcely fail to recognize how beautiful they are in form and tint and 

 texture, and considering what effective use can be made of them on 

 walls and trellises, on roofs and waste-heaps, it is surprising that they 

 are not more generally cultivated. The varieties are very numerous 

 and most of them can be grown in this country without difficulty — 

 such as the Turk's Cap and its varieties, the Serpent, Hercules Club 

 and the Giant's Punchbowl ; while for miniature kinds there are the 

 Fig, the Hen's Egg, the Bottle, the Orange, etc. Seed should be sown 

 in a frame in April or early in May, care being taken to remove the 

 lights whenever the weather permits as soon as the seedlings are 

 established, lest they become thin and lank, and they should be 

 planted out at the first favourable opportunity. A rich, moist soil 

 wiU set them growing fast and vigorously, but even a poor soil, if 

 kept well watered, wiU suffice for their needs. 



GRAMMANTHES. A half-hardy annual of the Stonecrop 

 family, and of which G. gentianoides is a useful plant for the Rock 

 Garden. It grows in a compact tuft some 2 or 3 inches high, with a 

 profusion of small orange-red blossom. It needs a warm, dry soil 

 and makes a capital pot-plant for the greenhouse. From seed sown 

 in heat early in March seedlings may be raised which may be suc- 

 cessfully planted out in May. 



GRAPE HYACINTH. See Muscaei. 



GYPSOPHILA. One of the best of this family is G. pani- 

 culata, a hardy perennial growing some 2 to 3 feet high and forming 

 a tall bush with delicate branching stems bearing a profusion of little 

 white flowers. G. elegans is a hardy annual, whose graceful, feathery 

 sprays of white or mauve flowers are much used in bouquets. G. 

 repens is of dwarf growth, suitable for the Rock Garden, with pretty 

 foliage and persistent bloom. 



HAWKWEED. 5ee Hieracium. 



HEATHS. 5ee Erica. 



HEDYSARUM [French Honeysuckle). A free-growing hardy 

 perennial but inclined to weedy jhabit. H. coronarium, which is not 

 really a perennial though it practically becomes so by self-sowing, 



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