POPULAR FLORIST FLOWERS Th 
Stocks and Wallflowers are very neat and easily grown 
subjects. Stocks for winter-flowering should be sown in sum- 
mer, pricked off into separate pots when sufficiently large, and 
grown on as rapidly as possible until in 6-inch pots. They 
should be nipped frequently to make them bushy, and must 
have a cool and light place with plenty of water during the sum- 
mer. Seeds produce only a certain percentage of double flowers. 
These varieties, if exceptionally fine, can, although the plant is 
considered annual, be readily propagated by means of cuttings, 
simply made of short growing side-shoots. The Wallflower is 
perennial, half-woody, and produces extremely fragrant single 
or double flowers, varying in colors from light yellow to deep 
brown. Unlike the single Stocks, single Wallflowers are valu- 
able and elegant. They are raised in the same way as Stocks 
but are better increased by cuttings. Soil for Stocks and Wall- 
flowers must be rich, porous, and should contain a certain 
portion of old mortar if obtainable. Wallflowers are so called 
because they often grow on old brick walls and ruins, where 
there is no apparent moisture or nutriment, but where they de- 
velop none the less well. 
Gloxinias are tuberous-rooted plants, with thick fleshy leaves 
and large and showy bell-shaped flowers. They are very rich 
in coloration, one-colored, dotted or blotched on either dark 
or light bottom. The tubers can easily be obtained, but it is 
better to buy the plants in bud or raise them from seeds. Seeds 
are fine and should be treated in every particular like those of 
tuberous-rooted Begonias. They should, however, be sown 
earlier and kept somewhat warmer. The treatment is other- 
wise similar. The plants flower early in spring and summer, 
and should. be kept cool and shaded while in flower. Gloxinias 
are also readily increased by means of leaf-cuttings. If tubers 
