GALA'XIA. 



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GARDENS. 



G. 



Ga\jea. — Asphodelacece. — Pretty 

 little European bulbous plants, gene- 

 rally with small dingy yellow flowers. 

 They should be grown in sandy soil, 

 and will not require taking up iu win- 

 ter. The plants belonging to this 

 genus were formerly considere to be- 

 long to Ornithogalum. Gagea lutea 

 or fascicularis is a British plant. 



Gailla'rdia. — Composites. Very 

 showy herbaceous plants, natives of 

 America, some of which are annuals 

 and others perennials. They grow 

 best in peat soil. G. Drummondi 

 or picta, and G. pulchella, or bi- 

 color as it is called in the seed-shops, 

 are annuals ; and their seeds should 

 be sown on a slight hotbed in Febru- 

 ary or March ; or in the open ground 

 in the same months, and covered with 

 a hand-glass, or flower-pot turned 

 over them, to preserve them if the 

 weather should be frosty when they 

 come up. It is necessary to sow tbe 

 seeds of these plants in February or 

 March, as they are a long time before 

 they come into flower. The true G. 

 bicolor is a perennial species, now 

 called G.lanceolata, which should be 

 grown in a peat border, and kept mo- 

 derately moist ; it is propagated by 

 seeds or division of the root. 



Gala'nthus . — Amaryllidacece, — 

 The Snowdrop. The common British 

 snowdrop, G. nivalis, is well known 

 both in its single and its double state; 

 but G.plicdnthus, the Russian snow- 

 drop, is not so common. They both 

 require a light rich soil, and they will 

 thrive under the drip of trees. They 

 are increased by offsets. 



Gala'xia. — IridacecB. — Dwarf 

 bulbous-rooted plants, natives of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and generally 

 with large yellow flowers. They 

 should be planted in very sandy soil, 

 and either taken up, or kept dry by | 



covering with a hand-glass during win- 

 ter. When grown in pots, the soil 

 should be heath-mould, or very sandy 

 loam. 



Gale'ga. — Leguminbsce. — Goat's 

 Rue. Weedy looking plants, with 

 small purple or white flowers, about 

 the size of the common vetch, and 

 bluish green leaves. They grow freely 

 in any common soil, but they require 

 a great deal of room, from their tall 

 and bushy stems. 



Galinso'gea. — Composites — G. 

 trilobata is a well-known showy 

 Mexican annual, with rich orange- 

 yellow flowers, which will grow in 

 any common soil, and may be sown 

 in March, April, or May. Like so 

 many other plants, Professor De Can- 

 dolle has changed its name ; and it is 

 now called Sogalgina trilobata. 



Ga'lium. — RubiacecB. --Btdstr&vr. 

 Perennial and annual plants, some of 

 which are aquatics, generally with 

 yellow or white flowers ; natives of 

 Europe, and several of them British 

 weeds. They will grow in any com- 

 mon soil, but they prefer sand or 

 peat. 



Gardens, in floriculture, may be 

 described as separate scenes for the 

 display of ornamental plants. The 

 forms of these gardens or scenes are 

 different ; some being laid out in 

 beds, the prevailing forms of which 

 are curvilinear; and others in beds, 

 of which the prevailing forms are 

 rectangular, such as squares, parallel- 

 ograms, octagons, polygons, &c. In 

 some gardens, the beds have the forms 

 of particular styles of architecture, 

 such as of the Gothic, Grecian, Eliza- 

 bethan, &c. ; and these latter forms 

 have given rise to what are called 

 styles or manners in laying out gar- 

 dens. Hence we have gardens in the 

 Gothic style in which the forms of 



