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or rock-garden in such dry and sunny ! 
spots as are unsuited to many other j 
plants. They do best in hot sandy soil i 
that is not too rich, for though growing 
freely in heavier ground the flowers are | 
few ; in such gardens they do better in 
pots. When in growth Gazanias should • 
be freely watered, if they are to do well I 
in the sandy soils best suited to them. 
As greenhouse plants they should be 
potted firmly into small pots, which may ; 
be sunk to the rim if the plants become 
pot-bound. Air should be given when- ; 
ever possible, in fact most kinds may i 
be flowered quite well in cool frames and ' 
fully exposed save in cold or wet weather. | 
During winter they should receive little | 
water and all the sunshine possible, and 
though they will bear a few degrees of 
frost, this trial should be spared them. 
The finest flowers come upon young 
plants, renewed each season. | 
Many of the Gazanias yield ' 
Increase. r -i i i it 
lertue seed, and seedhngs are 
of vigorous growth, but good kinds are 
so few and the progeny so differs from 
the parent that for the garden they are i 
best grown from cuttings. These should 
be taken in August or September and 
struck in cool frames, the method differ- 
ing a little with different kinds. The 
tufts of the stemless plants need dividing 
with care, each crown being cut with 
a heel and placed in its own small pot; 
in the stem-forming kinds the work is | 
easier and seldom fails. Cuttings may 
also be rooted in heat during spring, but | 
the resultis seldom so good. A few kinds 
including Gs. 7tivea^ latijloj^a^ Io72gi- i 
scapa^ Pa-vo?iia^ and Dammann's hy- I 
brids, may be increased by division, 1 
but for general purposes cuttings are 
best. 
This monograph by M. Jules 
Kinds. ^ 111 1 1- 1 -^j • 1 
Kudolpn, published in the 
Journal of the French "Societe Nation- 
ale d'Horticulture," is the most up-to- 
date record of the Gazania group, one 
which was in utter confusion, owing to 
imperfect knowledge, the absence of a 
complete collection of living plants, and 
the variety of form assumed by the same 
plant which is often again modified by 
cultivation. With the object of com- 
piling a complete account of the group, 
all the available species and hybrids were 
gathered, selected, and doubtful and in- 
ferior kinds rejected; these notes are the 
fruit of much study, their aim being to 
arouse wider interest in these interesting 
and showy perennials. 
The following species and hybrids 
are the best of those in cultivation : — 
G. armer hides. — A distinct plant of low com- 
pact growth, with grassy leaves the edges of 
which are rolled inwards sometimes to the mid- 
rib, and partly clothed with soft hairs. The 
flowers of i-| to 2 inches are pure white, shaded 
with purple on the outside of the petals. Natal 
and eastern Cape Colony, at from i,ooo to 
2,500 feet. 
G. Burchelli. — An annual kind and one of 
the most distinct, varying much in height and 
habit of growth. Narrow leaves rolled at the 
edges, covered with down, and with white 
hairs upon the margin but not white on the 
under surface. Yellow flov/ers from i to 1 1 
inches wide, with a ring of purple spots around 
the centre. Bechuanaland and Orange State. 
G. ccespitosa. — A small-flowered species and 
one of the most remarkable, with prostrate 
woody stems growing as a compact tuft and 
thickly covered with rigid spiny leaves of an 
inch long and spotless yellow flowers of i to 
inches. Snow Mountains in the district of 
Graaf Reinet, Cape Colony. 
G. jurifieifolia.— Y try dwarf and distinct, 
