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never without success, not one in twenty having 

 failed. This method, it may be remarked, will 

 hold good in cuttings of Stock Gilliflowers and 

 Double Wall-flowers." (Ceded. Mem. ii. 245.) 



The Sweet-scented Garden Rocket, although by 

 no means so common at the present time as we 

 could wish to see it, has long been cultivated in 

 our gardens in the single state, as Gerard speaks of 

 it in 1597, under the title of " Dame's Violets, or 

 Queene Gilliflowers.'" In Parkinson's " Garden of 

 Pleasant Flowers,'" 1629, we have the figure of this 

 plant in a double state, under the head of Hespcris 

 Pannonica, Dame's Violets of Hungary. 



Our native species of Rocket, Hesperis Inodora, 

 which has also had its petals doubled by the art of 

 the florist, resembles the exotic kind in all respects 

 except in fragrance, and as this kind is of easier 

 propagation, it is by far the most common ; and 

 although not so desirable as the sweet kind, yet it 

 is a beautiful plant to ornament the parterre from 

 May to the end of summer. Miller remarks that, 

 in his time, these beautiful flowers were much less 

 common than formerly ; and he seems to attribute 

 their decay to the quantity of manure used in mo- 

 dern gardens, for these plants will only thrive in 

 fresh undunged earth. Marty n says, in his ad- 

 mirable additions to Miller, these plants " being 

 naturally biennial, the plants with single flowers 



