DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 281 
Cape or Coreadeau Stock, with all their variety of colors, 
are suitable only for the green-hoyse or sitting-room; 
they do not flower the first season, and cannot be kept 
through our winters in the open ground. 
William Cobbett, a celebrated English politician, in 
opposition to the government, left his country in disgust 
and settled on Long Island, N. Y., and amused himself in 
the cultivation of the soil. He was quite an enthusiast in 
this line, and published a book of some interest on the 
cultivation of vegetables, flowers, etc. In speaking of 
the cultivation of flowers, he says: “If I were to choose, 
amongst all the biennials and annuals, I should certainly 
choose the Stock. Elegant leaf, elegant plant, beautiful, 
showy, and most fragrant flower; and with suitable at- 
tention, blooms, even in the natural ground, from May to 
November in England, and from June to November here. 
The annuals are called the Ten-week Stocks, and of all 
these, there are, with a pea-green leaf, the red, white, 
purple, and scarlet; and then, there are of the same col- 
ors, with a Wall-flower, or sea-green leaf. 
“Of the biennials there are the Brompton, of which 
there are the scarlet and the white, and the Twickenham, 
which is white. As to propagation, it is of course by 
seed only. If there be nothing but the natural ground to 
rely on, the sowing must be early; the earth very fine 
and rich, The seed is small and thin, and does not easily 
come upin coarse earth. Ifthe plants come yp thick, thin 
them when very young, and do not leave them nearer to- 
gether than six inches. They, however, transplant very 
well; and those that have not place to blow in, may be 
removed, and a succession of bloom thus secured. 
“If you have a green-hoise, glass-frame, or hand-glass, 
you get flowers six weeks earlier. The biennials are sown 
at the same time, and treated in the same way. 
“They blow the second year; but if there be great dif- 
