. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GALIUM are used to lighten the effect of bouquets of other fls., notably s%\"eet peas, "which can hardly be arranged with their own foliage, and which in large masses are inclined to look heavy and lumpy. Gypsophilas, which are used for the same purpose, bloom later. They have an equal infinity of det
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GALIUM are used to lighten the effect of bouquets of other fls., notably s%\"eet peas, "which can hardly be arranged with their own foliage, and which in large masses are inclined to look heavy and lumpy. Gypsophilas, which are used for the same purpose, bloom later. They have an equal infinity of detail, which baffles the eye to comprehend. The botanist's analysis of all this misty delicacy and airy grace is "fls. in axillary and terminal, trichotomous cymes and panicles. " He also declares that the Ivs. are really opposite, tlie intervening members of the whorls being stipules. Fig. 890. Galiums are annual or peren- nial herbs, with 4-angIed, slender stems and small, white, green, yellow or purple fls.; corolla wheel-shaped, 4-lobed; stamens 4: styles 2. The following are peren- nials from creeping rootstooks, with white fls. in termi- nal panicles. A. Lvs, in 4's : fruit liairy, , Linn. Height 3-2-134 ft.: stem rather firm, erect and slightly branched: lvs. lanceolate or linear, 3-ribbed, scarcely rough at the edges, often 1 in. long: petals with very short, incurved points. Native. AA. Lvs. in S's or 6's : fr. smooth or slighthj grarailated. MoUugo, Linn. Stem 1-3 ft. long, more or less branched: lvs. obovate to oblong or linear, more or less rough at edges, always terminated by a little point: pet- als abruptly narrowed into a relatively long point.—This is known in some places as "Baby's Breath,"although that name is also given to Gypsophilas (which see). Eu. Perennial. GALPHfMIA (anagram of Malpighia). Malpigliid,- cece, an order of almost no horticultural value. This ge- nus includes a yellow-fld. shrub cult, in the extreme South, and v
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