68 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



Varieties 



Ten-week Stock'? may be obtained ranging in height from 

 8 inches to 2 feet, and in such colours as white, buff, blush, 

 rose, pink, salmon, carmine, mauve, blue, purple, and deep 

 red. What are listed as Bedding Stocks grow from 10 to 12 

 inches high ; they are sturdy, vigorous, and free-ffowering. 

 The Miniature varieties are about 8 inches high and the 

 Bouquet varieties about i foot high. Dwarf German and 

 Wallflower-leaved sorts are i foot high, and the latter have 

 distinct foliage. There are some named sorts that come into 

 this group, and some of the best of these fine selections are 

 Snowdrift, Princess Alice, Bismarck, Snowdon, and Mont 

 Blanc, white; Princess May, primrose; Celestial, blue; F'ireball, 

 scarlet ; Salmon Beauty, salmon. Beauty of Nice is the name 

 of a fine strain that may be sown in late Spring for winter 

 flowering under glass, but it is also good for summer flower- 

 ing. Stocks for flowering under glass during the Winter 

 and early Spring hardly come under our purview in this 

 work. 



Intermediate varieties and also the East Lothians are 

 offered in various colours, but specially good among the former 

 are Covent Garden Scarlet, very bright ; May Queen, various ; 

 Crystal White, white ; and Queen Alexandra, lilac. 



Matthiola tristis, the Night-scented Stock, should be treated 

 much in the same way as Mignonette, several sowings being 

 made in Spring in various parts of the garden. 



MECONOPSIS 



" Poppy-wort'' 



Several of the Meconopsis {P apaveracece) are biennials, but 

 at least one is of annual duration, namely, M. heterophylla. 

 This is a Californian species which grows about i foot high, 

 and has coppery, orange-red flowers of great beauty. It is 



