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leaved straw-coloured, the variegated leaved 

 yellow, the winter, and the white, having a 

 very branchy greenish stem, and bushy head: 

 the flowers in each single or double. 



The second species rises with a strong stalk, 

 which is almost shrubby, from a foot to two or 

 more in height, having oblong, spear-shaped, 

 hoary leaves, which are frequently waved on 

 their edges, and turn downward at the extremity; 

 from the stalk come out many lateral branches, 

 with the same shaped leaves, but smaller ; these 

 side branches are each terminated by a loose 

 spike of flowers, each having a woolly calyx, and 

 four large roundish petals, indented at the end. 

 These usually appear in May and June, but the 

 same plants frequently continue flowering most 

 part of the summer. The seeds ripen in autumn, 

 and the plants often perish soon after ; but in 

 dry rubbish they last two or three years, and be- 

 come shrubby. Those with single flowers are 

 not worth preserving after they have perfected 

 their seeds. It is a native of Spain, &c. 



The flowers in this sort vary in their colour ; 

 some are of a pale red, others of a bright red, 

 and some curiously variegated, but those of the 

 bright red are generally most esteemed. 



There are likewise other varieties, as the Scarlet 

 or Brompton Stock, with a strong, upright, single 

 stem, from one to three feet high, crowned by 

 a cluster of long thick leaves and erect spikes of 

 iarge scarlet single, and double flowers. 



The White Brompton Stock, with stem as 

 above, and long erect spikes of large elegant 

 flowers. 



The Purple or Twickenham Stock, with a 

 thick stem a foot and a half or two feet high, 

 very branchy upwards, and all terminated by 

 erect spikes of purple single and double flowers, 

 purple blood-spotted single and double flowers, 

 variegated purple and white flowers. 



The Wall-flower-leaved or Shrubby Stock, 

 with a shrubby firm stem from a foot to a yard 

 high, dividing into many short branches, form- 

 ing a bushy head, all terminated by erect spikes 

 of pure white single and double 'very fragrant 

 flowers, whitish-flesh-coloured flowers, whitish- 

 purple flowers, whitish-red spotted flowers. 



The third has a shrubby stem, from six to 

 eight inches high, nearly the thickness of the little 

 linger, straight, rigid, round, covered with 

 leaves, hoary with nap, dividing at top into two 

 or three very short alternate branches : the leaves 

 are scattered, pctioled, lanceolate, bending this 

 way and that : the flowers alternate, nearly the 

 size of those in the Common Stock, and of a 

 purple colour. It Mowers from May to July. 



The fourth species rises with a round smooth 

 stalk about two feet high, dividing into several 

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branches at top : the leaves are lanceolate, hoary, 

 rounded at the end, almost opposite, or alter- 

 nate, or three and four together of unequal 

 sizes : the flowers are produced in loose spikes 

 at the ends of the branches, and placed alter- 

 nately. It is a native of the southern parts of 

 Europe. 



There are varieties with red, purple, white and 

 striped single flowers, and with double flowers 

 of the same colours. 



The fifth species has the stems six or eight 

 inches in height, very much branched, divari- 

 cated, somewhat stiff, rugged, with twin ap- 

 pressed hairs: the leaves are oval-lanceolate, 

 somewhat reflected at the tip, green, on rather 

 long petioles, stiffish ; the upper ones obscurely 

 subdentated : the branches terminated by spikes 

 of red flowers, turning purple. It is a native 

 of the coast of the Mediterranean, and impro- 

 perly termed Virginia Stock. 



Culture in the Wall-flower kind. — These plants 

 may be increased by seeds, slips, or layers; but, 

 in order to have good flowers, great care should 

 be taken to have the seeds collected from the 

 best plants : such as is purchased from the seeds- 

 men can seldom be fully depended upon. The 

 seed in this sort is less liable to produce double 

 flowers than in the succeeding kind. 



The seed should be sown in the spring, as in 

 April or the following month, either in the situa- 

 tions where the plants are to remain, or on beds 

 of earth that have not been enriched by manure, 

 being covered lightly in. When the plants ap- 

 pear, frequent waterings should be given in dry 

 weather; and when they have attained sufficient 

 growth, where the bed method is practised, they 

 should be thinned out during a wet season in the 

 latter end of summer or beginning of autumn, 

 and replanted in the situations where they are to 

 flower, or be pricked out in nursery beds, nine 

 inches distant, to remain till the following 

 spring, to be removed with balls of earth about 

 their roots; but the first is the most advisable 

 method, as they do not succeed so well by re- 

 moving. The bed method is chiefly in use with 

 the market-gardeners, who cultivate the flowers 

 for sale. 



The slip mode is chiefly practised in per- 

 petuating the fine double flowers. The slips are 

 made from the side shoots that have no flowers, 

 which, after being divested of their lower leaves, 

 are planted in the situations where they are to 

 remain, or in beds, to the depth of three or 

 four inches, any time from April to May, slight 

 waterings and shade being given. In the autumn 

 those in the beds should be removed into sepa- 

 rate pots, to have the occasional protection of a 

 frame in the winter. 



