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the season, and, unless they are allowed plenty of root-room, their 

 blooming season will be comparatively short ; but thos9 who are 

 partially unacquainted with the culture of pot-plants will act a wise 

 part in resting satisfied with a moderate display of floral beauty, 

 rather tban to risk potting their plants late in the season. With an 

 annual shift, and attention to the simple hints which I have just 

 laid dowu, this Correa will remain many years in perfection, and, by 

 its abundant display of bloom during the winter months, will well 

 repay the trifling care which its culture requires. When the plants 

 become too large to be conveniently shifted, it will be better to throw 

 them to the rubbish-heap, and to supply their places with young 

 plants, as, if kept after they become pot-bound, they seldom flower 

 satisfactorily. 



DOUBLE BROMPTON, QUEEN", AND TEN-WEEK 



STOCKS. 



|EW hardy plants are more valuable than tbe different 

 varieties of Brompton, Queen, and Ten-week Stocks, 

 when double and clear iu colour, either as objects for 

 decorating tbe flower-garden or the sitting-room, both 

 as regards their fragrance and long duration ; and at 

 the same time there are few plants upon which there is so much 

 uncertainty. Very few persons care for the single stock, which in 

 the double state is tbe admiration of everybody. I shall, therefore, 

 endeavour to point out the surest means of obtaining double flowers, 

 and at the same time show how they should be treated, so as to have 

 plants in bloom from April to November, and even, in very mild 

 winters, all the year round. 



In commencing, first procure, if possible, seeds of a good kind 

 (that is, from some place where more double than single ones are 

 produced from the seed), for in so doing you may save yourself 

 much disappointment. They are exceedingly easy of cultivation, 

 merely requiring to be sown in a rich loamy soil, not very retentive, 

 and at different seasons, so as to produce a succession. Those which 

 should be put in at the present season, namely, the Brompton and 

 Queen Stocks, should be sown at two different times ; one about the 

 end of June, and again in the end of July, in a border or bed not 

 verv rich or confined, merely screened from the mid-day sun. If 

 sucli & situation is, however, not convenient, sow in the open 

 ground, and put a few twiggy branches over the beds, placing the 

 branches flat on the grouud, which will be quite shade enough, 

 removing them again as soon as the young plants begin to show 

 their first rough leaves ; otherwise they become drawn, and conse- 

 quently never flower well. In sowing the Brompton and Queen 

 Stocks, always sow rather thinly, and on ground which is somewhat 

 firm ; for, if sown on very loose, fresh-dug ground, and if the soil is 

 rich, which it should be, the plants grow too rapidly, become soft, 

 and are very liable to be destroyed iu winter if the latter should 



