108 MAY. 



splendid stem of double flowers, sixteen or eighteen 

 inches in length. This month is the time for saving 

 the seed ; that sown in the preceding year, as di- 

 rected in the last month, will now be in flower. 



Plants that have blown well are scarcely worth 

 holding over for a second year, as they seldom pro- 

 duce strong flowers more than once. 



Another approved mode of propagating double 

 flowering stalks, is to take slips and cuttings from 

 the double sorts; but plants so raised are never pro- 

 ductive of such fine flowers as the parent exhibited, 

 nor equal to those from seedlings. Successions of 

 this flower are in blossom during many months of the 

 year. " The Gilliflower, like a real friend, attends 

 you through the vicissitudes and alterations of the 

 season, while others make a transient visit only." 



The small annual stock is also called the ten-week 

 stock, from its flowering in ten weeks after being 

 sown ; this, if carefully saved,* generally produces 

 fine double flowers ; there are numerous shades or 

 varieties of this, called Russian and German stock. 

 Light fresh soil is best for these. 



THE WALLFLOWER, 



OR CHEIRANTHUS. 

 " The yellow Wallflower, stained with iron brown." 



The straw-colored is a more tender variety than 

 either the yellow or the bloody. The purple-colored 

 is deficient in fragrance, but its appearance renders 

 it worthy of high estimation. The old double bloody 

 Wallflower is not in high fashion. 



* See the French mode of saving it. 



