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Starwort, see Perennial Aster. 



Stock, or Gilliflower : A fine, free-flowering plant, excellent for 

 the garden or the house. It is cultivated in two ways. 



Summer flowering stocks, often called Ten-Weeks stocks, are 

 easily raised, to flower from midsummer until after the first frosts. 

 The plants are not very large, from a foot to eighteen inches, but 

 may be massed in the border, where their colors (yellows and reds, 

 but best in white and pink) are very attractive. Like the other 

 stocks, they bear their flowers (usually very double) closely crowded 

 on stalks: Sow them under glass in March or April, to set outdoors 

 in late May ; or sow outdoors after the middle of May. Successive 

 sowings, a fortnight apart, will pay. The plants should stand about 

 a foot apart. They like deep and rich soil, and should never be 

 allowed to dry out, or they lose their leaves. 



Autumnal stocks are half-hardy biennials, and if started early, 

 as directed above, will give brilliant bloom in the fall. Or they 

 may be started in August, to be taken into the house at the approach 

 of frost, or to be wintered, south of New York, through mild winters 

 under a mulch, or farther north in^ a frame. They will flower well 

 the second year. 



Sunflower, or Helianthus : It may be grown in both annual and 

 perennial varieties. Annuals are mostly tender. They vary from 

 the well-known large single flowers to smaller ones borne singly or 

 in clusters. The blossoms vary much in shape, some of them being 

 very attractive. Heights vary; the flowers are all yellow, as are 

 the perennials. Plant the annuals in late May. The perennials 

 are hardy, and are more varied and interesting than the annuals ; 

 they may be raised from seed (sow in late April or early May) or 

 from root-divisions. Annuals do well in moist ground, but the 

 perennials prefer dry soil, and must be reset every few years, or 

 they will die out. Sunflowers are very effective and useful when 

 planted as screens or among shrubs. Space them from eighteen 

 inches to four feet apart, according to the variety. 



Sweet Pea : One of the finest garden flowers, its one drawback 

 being that except on the dwarf varieties, not as yet very popular, 



