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sort. They come into flower later, and the seed need not be 

 sown till May. 



Stocks, which are mostly biennials, are neither so hardy 

 nor so early as Wallflowers, but they are very useful, and if 

 seed of the intermediate section be sown in June and treated 

 much in the same way as recommended for Wallflowers they 

 will flower quite early enough to take their place when the 

 Wallflowers begin to grow shabby. Some experts prefer to 

 grow them entirely in pots, giving them shifts into larger sizes 

 as soon as the roots touch the sides. All-the- Year-Round is 

 a very fine white variety, and there are crimson and purple 

 shades in the same strain. For a later display the annual Ten- 

 Week Stocks may be sown as early as February under glass, 

 and, with good cultivation, will be in fine flower long before 

 any of their kind out of doors. The large, sweet-scented 

 flowers of this section are very beautiful in the infinite variety 

 of their delicate tints. 



Scarcely any introduction of recent years has been more 

 welcomed than that of the annual Margherita Carnations of 

 Italian origin. Sown early under glass, planted outside as 

 soon as the seedlings are strong enough, and allowed room 

 enough to develop, they will grow during the summer into 

 vigorous plants well set with buds in time to be potted with 

 other things for winter flowering. If the season be favourable 

 many buds will open before Christmas, and with a good strain 

 of seed, which is always a most important factor in the case, a 

 very large percentage of the plants will give fine double- 

 fringed flowers of refined hues. The single " rogues " are 

 also extremely pretty, and by no means to be despised as 

 decorative plants. Few people realise how well the common 

 white Pink, as well as its rose-coloured form, treated practic- 

 ally as biennials, respond to gentle forwarding under glass. 

 Tufts of cuttings or divisions of old plants put out in new soil 

 in rows in May can be lifted and potted in September. They 



