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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
G. bulgancum. Deep rich yellow flowers, 2 inches across, 
much-branched stems. Flowering throughout the summer. 
G. Glory of Stuttgart. A fine orange-scarlet double flower. 
G. Mrs Bradshaw. Large scarlet double flowers, 2 to 3 feet 
high, flowering June to October. 
G. Mr Bradshaw. Orange, do., do., do. 
G. miniatum aurantiacum (Parker’s variety). Slender, 
branching stems smothered in orange - yellow flowers, 
9 to 18 inches high. 
GILLENIA, “Indian Physic” or “Spiraea Foliata.” 
(N.O. Rosaceae.) 
A hardy plant with numerous slender stems, bearing panicles of 
small white flowers, 2 feet high. It prefers a peat or free loamy 
soil, and flowers from July to September ; may be propagated by 
division. 
G. stipulacecB. A taller plant not quite so compact in habit, 
but requiring the same cultivation. 
GILLI FLOWER. (See Wallflower.) 
GLADIOLUS. 
A beautiful race of bulbous plants which have recently been 
so improved by hybridizers in each hemisphere that when com- 
paring them with those of twenty years ago the progress seems 
incredible. They are now to be had in every colour, including deep 
blue and yellow, and are most suitable for planting in bold groups 
among other plants and shrubs rather than in a large bed alone, 
as they do not last very long in flower, and are untidy when dying 
off. Any rich, free soil will suit them ; indeed, except in wet clay, 
or a very dry soil they will succeed anywhere. The ground should 
be well dug and manured in the autumn or winter, and planted 
with the bulbs in March. 
If planted sooner they are apt to rot, and if later they will not 
ripen properly ; the fresh loam of a newly turned field is what they 
really revel in if such a thing can be got. 
Each bulb should be planted 9 inches to a foot apart, and in a 
ring of 12-inch diameter you could plant five or six bulbs from 
2 to 3 inches deep. When well ripened off after flowering they 
should be dug up and stored in a dry, frost-proof place. 
They are propagated from offsets, planted out on a good warm 
border in spring, and they flower from July to August. 
