ON STOCKS AND WALLFLOWERS 361 



Several distinct colours of the Brompton Stock are 

 available. 



The Intermediate Stocks, of which the East Lothian 

 is a form, are generally grown in pots and treated as 

 biennials, being sown in a frame in August, potted, and 

 put in a heated house in autumn to bloom in winter 

 and spring. But they may be flowered in the garden 

 in summer if desired by sowing in a warm house in 

 February, hardening in a cold frame, and planting out 

 in May. 



Riviera Market, Beauty of Nice, Christmas Pink, and 

 other charming strains of Stocks offered by the large 

 seedsmen are suitable for the same culture as the Inter- 

 mediates. Three plants may be grown in an 8-inch pot. 



Wallflowers in spring, Stocks in summer, shall repre- 

 sent in our gardens the Gilliflowers of the olden days. 

 They will give us the same delicious odours as they 

 gave to the flower-lovers of the Elizabethan period, 

 and they will give us larger blooms, richer colours, 

 and a greater proportion of doubles. In so far, 

 then, we have the advantage of the amateurs for whom 

 Parkinson, Ray, and Gerard wrote. 



