90 EXTRACTS. 



tion of double-flowering plants. Last year, (1S32) 1 had some of 

 the purple Brompton Stocks raised from seeds saved upon tli« 

 above plan, and from my whole stock, (50 plants) I had not one 

 single flowering plant. 



Stocks, in all their numerous and beautiful varieties, I very 

 much admire, in consequence of which I feel a peculiar interest 

 to recommend their culture to every lover of Flora ; with this view 

 I subjoin a few hints on the cultivation of this txuly very beautiful 

 and fragrant flower. 



About the first week in May, I sow the Stock seeds very thinly, 

 on a cool bordei-, where I allow the plants to remain undisturbed 

 till the beginning of July, when I put them out where they are to 

 remain for flowering. It is an usual practice to prick out the 

 plants on a nursery bed, and afterwards transplant them for flower- 

 ing ; but I find by such mode of treatment that they do not get 

 fully established before winter, for the root being of the kind 

 designated a tap-root, (i. e. caiTot-shaped) it requires a consider- 

 able length of time to get properly rooted again. 



Should the above observations meet your ajiprobation, you will 

 favour me by inserting them in the Florist's Magazine. I shall 

 be most ready at all times to make known any little discoveries in 

 Floriculture that I may be so fortunate as to make, for the benefit 

 of others.* 



Cambridge, April 1-5, 1833. Paul Pry. 



* We shall consider ourselves amongst the individuals much benefitted, if 

 our respected correspondent will thus keep his promise in mind. — Condoctok. 



PART II. 



EXTRACTS. 



Plants figured in the foUoAving Periodicals for May, 1833 : — 

 Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited 

 by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow. 



1. £ri//Ai«apo/i(lniAMS, naked flowering coral tree. Class, Diadelphia; order, 

 Decandria; natural order, Leguminosaj. The individual plant from which the 

 drawing and description were taken, grows in the garden of the Quinta da 

 Valle, close to its rival in beauty ; Erythrina vclCitina, see page 58. The pre- 

 sent plant in Madeira grows about 20 feet high, with a trunk 4 feet in girth, 

 and numerous subdivided erect branches, each tipped, from April to June, 



