SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. ClJAP. 



The Brompton stock grows to about two feet high 

 when flourishing, has long hoary leaves, narrow, and 

 ruther waved at the edges, and, above the foliage, there 

 rises a stalk studded round thickly with scarlet double 

 flowers as large each as a small rose, and which appear 

 in May and June. This plant is a biennial, and should, 

 therefore, be sown in the spring or summer, and treated 

 accordingly ; but as it suffers from the frosts of winter, 

 when brought on too forward the first summer, it is best 

 not to sow till the middle or latter end of June. Raise 

 the plants in a frame, and keep them thinned out in order 

 that, though not large when winter comes on, they may 

 still not be weak. Plant out the young plants in the 

 fall, and, if the winter be very severe, and you have the 

 means of doing it, cover them with litter during such 

 severity ; as, though frosts must be very hard, indeed, 

 to kill them, yet a severe winter will spoil their blossom- 

 buds and cause them to blow but little, and single. 



STOCK, Queen s. Lat. Cheiranthus incanus. Fr. Giroflce 

 des jardins. This is also a biennial ; grows a foot or 

 more 'high, producing white, red, or purple double 

 flowers in May and June ; but these come on innu- 

 merable branches which this stock sends out from its 

 main stalk on each side. Leaf like the former 5 and it 



is cultivated like the former. STOCK, ten-week. Lat. 



Cheiranthus annus. Fr. Girof.ee annuelle (or, quarantavn, 

 forty-day} ; is a very handsome and sweet little annual 

 plant, blowing from May to September or October. It 

 grows from twelve to eighteen inches high, with greyish 

 coloured leaves, branches out a little, and, if from good 

 seed, bears double flowers, red, white, or purple j equal 

 to either of the preceding in odour, and not far surpassed 



