28 FLORA HISTORICA. 



and Wise, who were the celebrated nurserymen 

 and florists of that age, give long directions for 

 the management of these flowers, which they 

 then said prove one of the principal ornaments 

 of our garden from the variety and number of its 

 flowers. 



The bright red, or camiine Stock, Cheiranthus 

 Incanus, or Queen's Stock, must ever remain the 

 favourite variety, notwithstanding the love we 

 have for novelty ; and we presume that this flower 

 was brought to its high state of beauty in the 

 neighbourhood of Brompton, as well as the large 

 purple Stock, since Miller speaks of them, in 

 1724, as the Brompton Stock, and by which 

 name the variety, Coccineiis, is now known in 

 most parts of the world. We cannot forbear re- 

 lating the laughable and good effects the sight 

 and name of this flower had on the spirits of an 

 acquaintance, with whom we were making a tour 

 in Normandy, in the first summer after the return 

 of the Bourbon family to the throne of France. 

 He had been induced to join a small party, and 

 to leave his home, for the first time, to visit the 

 opposite coast, but so truly British were his 

 habits that nothing could please or satisfy him. 

 The soup was meagre, the pottage was acid, the 

 peas were sweet, the wine was sour, the coffee 

 was bitter, the girls were brown, their eyes too 



