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and the young plants to be pricked out three or four 

 in small pots, and to be protected in frames through 

 the winter; these will flower early in the spring. 

 The seed may be sown again in March or April, for 

 plants to bloom in the summer. Some biennial or 

 winter stocks have also been introduced, but I have 

 yet had no opportunity of seeing them flower. In 

 mentioning these, I have no wish to underrate our 

 native stock, the Brompton, which in some situations 

 grows to an immense size, presenting one large mass of 

 bloom : the brilliant colour of the scarlet is the most 

 striking, but the purple and the white are equally 

 pleasing. The seed of the Brompton ought to be 

 sown some time in May, that the stalks may get 

 hard and woody to stand the winter; the careful 

 gardener, when in possession of a good double- 

 flowering scarlet, will not neglect to winter some of 

 the plants in pots, either in frames, green-houses, or 

 under hoops covered with mats, during any very- 

 hard frosts; for good and well-saved seed of this 

 stock is not always to be got. 



If I may credit the testimony of a gardener of 



