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mixed than in the named packets, and if you wish for more variety, 

 then purchase a packet of the Wallilower-leaved, the only difference 

 being that in this variety the leaves are smooth and shining, similar 

 to the common Wallflower. But if you want a Scarlet Stock, you 

 must not rely upon imported seed, as all their scarlets are brick-reds. 

 "Why this is the case, I am uuable to say ; but I have never been 

 enabled to get a scarlet Stock like our old Scarlet Ten-week from 

 G-ermany, so that for this (the scarlet) you must depend upon 

 Mnglisli-saved seed; and if you buy from a respectable house, you 

 will doubtless get a good per-centage of double flowers. 



Other varieties of Stocks ofi"ered by the German seedsmen are 

 autumnal, or, as we call them, intermediate. They are certainly 

 very pretty, and they oft'er twelve varieties, very useful in the 

 autumn for bouquets. If, however, you want the real old Interme- 

 diate or Autitmnal Stoclc, you must buy English-saved seed. There 

 are two varieties of the scarlet, both rery excellent ; then there is 

 the white, also the purple. If you obtain these three colours, they 

 will, I think, supply all you require. The scarlet intermediate is the 

 kind grown so extensively for the London market for spring de- 

 coration. 



The next varieties we come to are the Emperor Stochs, and they 

 are certainly very useful for cutting for bouquets, being very similar 

 to the old-fashioned Queen Stocks. Amongst them will be found 

 some brilliant colours. 



We finish with Winter or Biennial StocJcs, called by us Bramp- 

 ton or Giant. I have seen spikes of the scarlet two feet long, and 

 as double as a ranunculus, but then the seed was English saved ; 

 and if you wish these good, you must rely upon English seed. The 

 scarlet and white are the most useful, as the purple generally produces 

 very few double flowers. 



I see the German lists have also Cocardian, or Tree Giant Cape 

 Winter Stocks, and also Winter Stock early fowerlng, but these can 

 only be placed to swell the list. I will say, buy therefore only 

 Dwarf German Ten-iveek Stocks, imported seed; Scarlet German Ten- 

 week Stocks, English seed ; Intermediate Stock, English seed ; Giant or 

 Brompton Stock, scarlet and white, English seed ; Emperor Stock, im- 

 ported seed. These will embrace every shade of colour obtainable, and 

 will furnish any garden with a constant display of bloom. W. H. 



HOW TO GROW EINE CELEEY. 



N many gardens celery is more or less of a failure every 

 year. It is either small, or hollow, or of bad flavour, or 

 it perishes just at the moment it is wanted, through 

 frost, wet, wire-worm, or some other plague. Tet it is 

 an easy matter enough to grow celery of the finest 

 quality, provided the soil is tolerably good, and suitable manure can 

 be obtained for dressing it. One of the first points to note in the 

 practice is this, that many of the failures are the result of the seed 

 being sown too early. The later stages of the cultivation must be 



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