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even when in flower, should be kept 

 in the green-house. It should be 

 grown in a light rich soil, and kept 

 rather dry. Sometimes it is propa- 

 gated by cuttings, struck in mould 

 under a hand-glass ; and plants raised 

 in this manner are generally much 

 hardier than those from seeds. 



Gongo'ra. — OrchidacecB. — Curi- 

 ous epiphytal plants, natives of the 

 tropics, which require the usual treat- 

 ment of orchideous plants, and are 

 generally grown in a moist stove, or 

 orchideous house, in baskets of moss, 

 or on a piece of wood hung up to the 

 rafters. Sometimes they are grown 

 in pots, in peat and sand, mixed 

 with pieces of broken stone or lime 

 rubbish. The flowers hang down 

 from the root, and require to be 

 shaded from the direct rays of the 

 sun. They are increased by division 

 of the root ; and, when grown in 

 pots, the pots should be half filled 

 with potsherds. 



Gono'lobus. — Asclepiadacece. — 

 Climbing plants, with dark red flowers, 

 which require the heat of a stove. 

 They should be grown in a mixture 

 of loam and peat ; and they may be 

 increased by cuttings. The flowers 

 are more curious than beautiful. 



GorWnia. — Ternstrcemiacece. — 

 The Loblolly Bay. This plant, 

 though in its native country, the 

 swamps of North America, it becomes 

 a tree fifty or sixty feet high, is in 

 England rarely more than a sub-ever- 

 green bush, the height of which sel- 

 dom exceeds five or six feet. It is 

 nearly allied to the Camellia, and it 

 has large, white, sweet scented flowers, 

 and handsome leaves. It should be 

 grown in peat earth, kept moist, in a 

 low sheltered situation ; but it is 

 quite hardy, and will grow in any soil 

 or situation, flowering abundantly 

 when of very small size. It is gene- 

 rally propagated by layers ; but when 

 seeds are imported, they should be 



sown on wet moss, as they are said 

 only to germinate well on that sub- 

 stance. 



Gossy'pium — Malvaceae. — The 

 Cotton Tree. These plants, most of 

 which are natives of the East Indies, 

 require a stove in England. The 

 flowers are large and handsome, re- 

 sembling those of the Mallow, and 

 the seeds are enveloped in a soft, 

 white, woolly substance, which is the 

 cotton. This substance is often pro- 

 duced in England. All the cotton 

 plants are herbaceous, and most of 

 them are biennials ; and they all re- 

 quire a rich moist soil, and abundance 

 of heat. They are propagated by 

 seeds and cuttings. 



Grabo'wski, — Solanacece. — The 

 new name for Lycium Boerhavice- 

 fblium. See Lycium. 



Grafting is the art of taking a 

 shoot from one plant and uniting it 

 to another, in such a manner as that 

 it shall grow and thrive as well as if 

 it were planted in the ground. A 

 grafted plant consists of two parts ; 

 the stock, which must have a root, 

 and the scion, which is united to the 

 stock by the operation of grafting. 

 The scion is commonly a shoot of the 

 preceding year's growth ; but, in some 

 cases, it may be a shoot of the same 

 year's growth, or it may be of the 

 growth of two or more years. The 

 stock should be a well-rooted plant, 

 fixed in the soil, with a stem of at 

 least as great a diameter as that of 

 the scion, but the stem may be much 

 larger, and of several years 1 growth. 

 Grafting is commonly limited to 

 woody plants, and it is only within 

 certain limits that it can be performed. 

 To be united together by grafting, it 

 is necessary that the plants be of the 

 same nature ; and, generally, that 

 they be of the same genus, or family ; 

 though, in some cases, all the genera 

 of a tribe will graft on one another. 

 Thus, any kind of Camellia may be 



