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the name of Davis, who works for me occasionally, 

 and I have no reason to doubt his testimony, he 

 assures me, that about thirty years ago, during the 

 time of his apprenticeship to Mr. Mott, gardener to 

 the Duke of Bolton, at Hackwood, in Hampshire, 

 his Grace received from Germany, through the 

 medium of a domestic servant, whose father was a 

 gardener in that country, the same coloured stocks 

 as I have been describing ; they were considered a 

 great rarity, and were much admired, but they were 

 called Grecian stocks, the name they now go by in 

 France. The major part of them, he says, were 

 wall-leafed. 



The annual stock is, I believe, originally a native 

 of Greece, and called ( cheiranthus,' or hand-flower, 

 probably from its being carried in the hand as a 

 nosegay, or making a handful of flowers. There is 

 no doubt, in my opinion, but that these stocks found 

 their way from Greece into Russia, Denmark, and 

 the north of Europe, and since our unrestricted in- 

 tercourse with the Continent, the seed of them has 

 reached England, bringing with it the name of the 



