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Cape or Corcadeau Stock, with all their variety of colors, 

 are suitable only for the green-house or sitting-room; 

 they do not flower the first season, and cannot be kept 

 through our winters in the open ground. 



William Cobbett, a celebrated English politician, in 

 opposition to the government, left his country in disgust 

 and settled on Long Island, N. Y., and amused himself in 

 the cultivation of the soil. He was quite an enthusiast in 

 this line, and published a book of some interest on the 

 cultivation of vegetables, flowers, etc. In speaking of 

 the cultivation of flowers, he says : "If I were to choose, 

 amongst all the biennials and annuals, I should certainly 

 choose the Stock. Elegant leaf, elegant plant, beautiful, 

 showy, and most fragrant flower ; and with suitable at- 

 tention, blooms, even in the natural ground, from May to 

 November in England, and from June to November here. 

 The annuals are called the Ten-week Stocks, and of all 

 these, there are, with a pea-green leaf, the red, white, 

 purple, and scarlet ; and then, there are of the same col- 

 ors, with a Wall-flower, or sea-green leaf. 



" Of the biennials there are the Brompton, of which 

 there are the scarlet and the white , and the Twickenham, 

 which is white. As to propagation, it is of course by 

 seed only. If there be nothing but the natural ground to 

 rely on, the sowing must be early; the earth very fine 

 and rich. The seed is small and thin, and does not easily 

 come up in coarse earth. If the plants come up thick, thin 

 them when very young, and do not leave them nearer to- 

 gether than six inches. They, however, transplant very 

 well ; and those that have not place to blow in, may be 

 removed, and a succession of bloom thus secured. 



" If you have a green-house, glass-frame, or hand-glass, 

 you get flowers six weeks earlier. The biennials are sown 

 at the same time, and treated in the same way. 



" They blow the second year ; but if there be great dif- 



