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whorls ; M. kalmiana, flowers very long, and a beautiful 

 crimson, with fragrant leaves. M. Russdliana has red 

 and white flowers ; curious and handsome. M. punctata 

 has yellow and red flowers ; they grow in any common 

 soil. 



Mathiola is the generic of the Stock-gilly. None of 

 them will survive severe winters in this latitude ; yet many 

 of them are indispensable in the flower garden. M. sim- 

 plicdulis, Brompton-stock and its varieties ; with M. incana, 

 Queen-stock, and its varieties, require the protection of a 

 good frame in winter, and about the end of this month, or 

 beginning of next, plant them in good light rich soil to 

 flower, which they will do all summer, if attended to with 

 frequent supplies of water. M. dnnua has about forty 

 varieties, valuable for flowering the first year from seed, 

 and are all annuals. They ought to be sown on a gentle 

 hot-bed about the first of this month, and carefully pricked 

 out so as they may be ready to transplant about the end of 

 April or the first of May. Plant them in light rich soil, 

 and they will flower profusely through the season ; if it is 

 very dry, they must be watered to keep them growing. 

 The scarlet, white and purple varieties are the finest ; but 

 there are many intermediate sorts, all handsome. M. glabra 

 is the Wall-flower leaved stock, and requires the same 

 treatment as the former two. There are about twenty vari- 

 eties of this, all various in colour. In planting any of 

 these into the open ground, choose cloudy weather, except 

 they have been in pots ; in such case, plant at any time in 

 beds, or detached groups, through the borders, keeping 

 each kind separate. 



CEnotheras. The most of them are indigenous, and in 

 Europe they afford a continual ornament to the flower gar- 

 den from April to November, but in our gardens they are 

 entirely neglected. By rejecting these and many others, 

 our flower gardens are deprived both of much beauty and 

 interest they might easily possess. The herbaceous sorts 

 delight in light rich soil. (E. odorata, sweet-scented ; CE. 

 macrocdrpa ; CE. media; (E. latiflora ; CE. Frazeri ; 

 CE. spedosa; CE. missouriensis,ar\d CE.po.lUda; are all 

 fine native herbaceous plants, mostly with large yellow 

 four-petalled corollas ; in bloom from May to September. 



Phlox, another American genus, and one of the most 



