STOCK OR GILLYFLOWER. 19 



STOCK, OR GILLYFLOWER. Mathiola. 



Natural Order Siliquosce, or Cniciferce. A Genus of the 

 Tetr adynamia Siliquosa Class. 



Fair is the Gillyflower of gardens sweet. 



Gay. 



And lavish Stock, that scents the garden round. 



Thomson. 



Bring hether the Pincke and Purple Cullambine, 



With Gelliflowers. 



Spexser. 



This flower, which is now become the pride of 

 every British parterre, from the gay palace to the 

 humble cottage, has been made the emblem of last- 

 ing beauty ; for, although it is less graceful than 

 the Rose, and not so superb as the Lily, its splen- 

 dour is more durable, and its fragrance of longer 

 continuance. It was one of the earliest inmates of 

 our gardens that was planted by the Dames of 

 baronial castles, and from hence it was formerly 

 called Castle Gilloflower, and Dame's Violet ; for 

 Violet was added to the name of many flowers that 

 possessed either a purple tint, or an agreeable per- 

 fume. The name of Gillyflower was also common 

 to several plants, as the Wall Gillyflower and the 



