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The Brompton in French, giroflee a tige and the 

 White Stock are varieties of this kind ; the latter will 

 sometimes live three or four years. This species is a native 

 of the coast of Spain, Greece, Italy, Candia, and the isles 

 adjacent. 



The Stock-gilliflower has been long established in the 

 English gardens, and is indeed a native of the cliffs by the 

 sea-side. The old English name of Gilliflower, which is 

 now almost lost in the prefix, Stock, is corrupted from the 

 French giroflier. Chaucer writes it Gylofre, but, by asso- 

 ciating it with the nutmeg and other spices, appears to mean 

 the Clove-tree, which is, in fact, the proper signification of 

 that word. 



Turner calls it Gelover and Gelyfloure ; Gerarde and 

 Parkinson, Gilloflower. Thus, having wandered from its 

 original orthography, it was corrupted into July-flower. 

 Pinks and Carnations have also the title of Gilliflower 



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from smelling like the clove, for which the French name is 

 girofle. For distinction, therefore, they were called Clove- 

 gilliflowers, and these Stock-gilliflowers. Gerarde adds 

 the names Castle-gilliflower, and Guernsey-violet. 



The Annual, or Ten-weeks 1 Stock French, le quaran- 

 tain ; le violet (Tete [summer violet] : Italian, leucoio estivo 

 [summer stock] grows about two feet high : there are 

 many varieties, white, red, purple, and striped ; and double 

 and single varieties of each of these colours. It grows na- 

 turally on the coast in the South of Europe. By means of 

 a hot-bed they may be raised earlier, but without that help 

 the best season for sowing them is in March and April, 

 and indeed in May also ; if they are taken in when the 

 weather becomes severe, they will continue to flower ; those 

 planted in May will last to the very end of winter, in the 

 house. A middle-sized pot will contain three or four. 



The Broad-leaved Shrubby-stock is a native of the 



