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eighteen inches, are two excellent strains of annual 

 Stock for garden culture. They produce large spikes 

 of fragrant flowers in a great variety of colours, which 

 can be bought separately or in mixture. If green- 

 leaved Stocks are preferred, the Wallflower-leaved may 

 be grown instead. They grow about a foot high, and 

 have several distinct colours. Princess May, primrose- 

 coloured, is a charming variety of this class ; it may be 

 grown as a Ten-week garden Stock, or in pots for 

 the greenhouse. Mont Blanc is a splendid white 

 garden Ten-week of robust habit, growing about 

 eighteen inches high. 



A bed or broad band of Ten-week Stocks beside a 

 walk or near a summer-house, or clumps in a part of 

 the herbaceous border near the doors or windows of 

 the house, should form a feature of every garden. The 

 plants are handsome and the flowers persistent, as well 

 as highly perfumed ; alike for garden and cutting they 

 will prove delightful. But to have them in really fine 

 condition they must be strong as seedlings, planted in 

 soil that has been dug deeply and manured well, and 

 given water or liquid manure in dry weather. 



The Brompton Stock, which grows about two feet 

 high and branches freely, is generally treated as a 

 hardy biennial, being sown outdoors in May or June, 

 together with Wallflowers, Canterbury Bells, and Sweet 

 Williams, thinned, and planted out in autumn or spring. 

 As a rule it gets hard and woody enough to stand the 

 winter when treated in this way, but it is often killed 

 during severe winters in cold districts or on damp soil ; 

 and if disappointment is experienced from this cause, 

 it would be well to sow under glass in June, put 

 the plants in small pots later on, and winter them 

 in a frame, not planting them out until the spring. 



