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OF THE 



RUSSIAN AND DANISH STOCKS. 



OF all the flowers that have of late years been in- 

 troduced into England, none seem to give greater 

 pleasure than the different varieties of these annual 

 or ten week stocks; and none are sought after at this 

 moment with greater avidity : they consist of about 

 eighteen sorts, and form a splendid flower-garden 

 of themselves. The colours which I have noticed, 

 and which are thus described upon some packets of 

 the seed sent from Denmark : light red, tile red, dark 

 red or mahogany, ruby, scarlet, flesh-colour, peach 

 blossom, light ash, dark ash, lilac, blue, purple, mul- 

 berry, black, white, &c. Some of the plants have the 

 wall-flower leaf, and others the Brompton leaf. Be- 

 fore the introduction of these, we were acquainted only 

 with the scarlet, the purple, and the white. The seed 



ought to be sown about the middle of September, 



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