GLO 
GON 
tivated in light rich soil; to have them 
in perfection, beds should be prepared 
by trenching in a warm spot, which is 
already of good quality, a quantity of 
fresh cow-dung or the fat manure from an 
old melon bed into the ground about 
the beginning of March, and the roots 
may be planted at once at about three 
or four inches from the surface; should 
the weather prove dry in the following 
May and June, it will be necessary to 
well water the soil, or the foliage ol the 
plant s withers before they have completed 
their growth, and engenders a weakness* 
in the bulbs ; but treated in the manner 
described they grow with vigour, and 
produce large spikes of their brilliant- 
coloured handsome blossoms. Gladiolus 
are sometimes grown in pots, these 
should be large and filled with loam, 
peat, rotten manure, and sand, in equal 
proportions, and the pots should be 
plunged in ashes or the ground while 
the plants are growing. When the stem 
and leaves are perfectly dry in autumn, 
the bulbs should be taken up and pre¬ 
served in bags or drawers till the next 
planting season. The following are 
worthy a place in every garden: albinus , 
blandus, cardinalis, Colvillii , C. rubra , 
floribundus, Gandavensis, Herbertii , in- 
si r/nis, trimaculatus , tristis , and any of 
the numerous seminal varieties annually 
imported from the Continent and Guern¬ 
sey. 
GLORIOSA (Linn.) Nat. Or. Lilia - 1 
cere. A very handsome and curious genus 
of limited climbing stove plants, which 
should be grown in pots of very sandy 
loam, and treated in the manner re¬ 
commended for Gesnera, except that 
being of climbing habits, they will require 
to be supported with sticks or a trellis. 
GLOXINIA (L’Heritieh.) Nat. Or. 
Gesneracece. This really splendid genus 
is so well known as to need no descrip¬ 
tion ; they may be grown wherever the 
accommodation of a greenhouse and a 
hotbed frame can be had. In February 
or March the bulbs should be potted in 
a mixture of loam, peat or leafmould, 
and silver sand, filling the pot one third 
of its depth with crocks to ensure a 
good drainage, and placed into a lively 
heat of about 60°, where they may con¬ 
tinue until the blooms are produced, 
receiving air and water as may appear 
necessary. When the first flowers are 
expanded, which will be about May, the 
plants should be taken to the green¬ 
house, observing to shade them from 
powerful sunlight, and by attention to 
watering will continue on nearly through 
the whole of the summer. The bulbs 
should be dried and preserved through 
the winter in the manner recommended 
for Gesnera. The following selection or 
some part of it should be in every col¬ 
lection: bicolor , Candida, Cartonii, liirsuta , 
maxima , rubra , speciosa, and Stanleyi. 
GNAPHALIUM (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Composite. It is only the hardy species 
of these plants wliich are worth culture; 
they form pretty border plants, and the 
flowers are sometimes used for winter 
decoration, as they retain their colours 
long after they are cut from the plants 
and dried; any light soil suits _ them, 
though they prefer a sunny sitnation. 
GODETIA (Spach.) Nat. Ord. Ona- 
gracece. Very pretty annuals, growing 
about a foot and a half high, and pro¬ 
ducing numberless rosy lilac-flowers. The 
seed should be sown in March where 
the plants are intended to bloom. 
GOMPPIOLOBIUM (Smith.) Nat. 
Or. Leguminosee. A genus of most desir¬ 
able slender, climbing plants, from New 
Holland. They delight in sandy peat 
well drained and carefully watered; in 
this particular they require some care, 
as their delicate roots are easily injured 
by an excess of moisture; an airy part 
of the greenhouse should be allotted 
them, where they may receive abundance 
of light, and attention should be given 
to the training of the shoots, or they 
soon become an entangled mass. G. po- 
lymorphum, splendens , and versicolor, are 
most usually grown. 
GOMPHRENA (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Amarantacere. The only species usually 
considered worth cultivation is G. glo- 
bosa, the globe amaranth, a beautiful 
tender annual requiring the management 
of the Balsam. 
GONGORA (Ruiz and Pavon.) Nat. 
Ord. Orchidacece. An esteemed genus 
