358 POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS 



Cloth of Gold. A good yellow. 



Eastern Queen. Chamois, paling to salmon. 



German^ double. Various colours, sweet, somewhat taller 

 than most of the singles ; a good plant for pots as well as the 

 garden. 



Golden Tom Thumb. Another useful yellow. 



Harbinger. Brown, rather taller than Blood Red, early. 



Old Castle. Orange yellow, a selection of the wilding, and 

 one of the best for dry places. 



Ellen Willmott. Ruby. 



Belvoir Castle and Blood Red will meet the require- 

 ments of most amateurs admirably. To establish plants 

 on walls, sow seed in the chinks in spring and cover with 

 soil. 



Botanically the Stock, Mathiola (Math-e-o'-la) is very 

 close to the Wallflower, but the flowers are purple in- 

 stead of orange, the stigmas erect instead of spreading, 

 and the seeds slightly winged instead of wingless. The 

 plant was named after an Italian botanist, Mathioli. As 

 we have seen, there has been an association centuries 

 old between the two plants, although both have lost, 

 by abridgment, the distinguishing name of Gilliflower. 

 The Stock is a native of Western Europe and the 

 Mediterranean littoral, but one species, incana y is a 

 native of Great Britain, and is considered to be the 

 parent of the Brompton Stock, which, with its hoary 

 leaves and large flowers, ranks as one of the most 

 popular of our hardy biennials. 



The Stock is equally as fragrant as the Wallflower, 

 but blooms later, and has a much greater range of 

 colours. All classes of it should be grown the annual 

 ten-week, Wallflower-leaved, Queen, and Brompton 

 in the garden, the Intermediate and East Lothian in 

 pots. The Ten-week Stocks came from the annual 



