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to November here. — The annuals are called ten- 

 week Stocks. And of these there are, with a pea- 

 green leaf, the Red, White, Purple and Scarlet, 

 and, then, there are all the same colours with a 

 Wall-flower or Sea-Green leaf. So that there are 

 eight sorts of the annual Stock. — Of the biennials, 

 there are the Brompton, of which there are the 

 Scarlet and the White; the Dutch, which is Red; 

 the Queen^s, of which there are the Red and the 

 WJiite ; and the Twickenham, which is Purple. — 

 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 \' ery fine and 

 very rich. The seed is small and thin, and does 

 not easily come up in coarse earth. If the plants 

 come up thick, thin them, when very young. And 

 do not leave them nearer together than six inches. 

 They, however, transplant very well ; and those 

 that have not place to blow in may be removed, and 

 ?L succession of bloom is thus secured. If you have 

 a green-house, glass frame, or hand-glass, you get 

 flowers six weeks earlier. — The hiennials are sown 

 at the same time, and treated in the same way. 

 They blow the second year ; but, if there be great 

 difficulty in preserving them, in the natura'l ground, 

 through the winter in England, what must it be 

 here ! Indeed, it cannot be done ; and yet, they are 

 so fine ; so lofty ; such masses of beautiful and fra- 

 grant flowers ; and they continue so long in bloom, 

 that they are worth any care and any trouble. There 

 is but one way: the plants, when they get ten or a 

 dozen leaves, must be put into flower-pots. These 

 may be sunk in the earth, in the open ground, till 

 November (Long Island,) and when the sharp frosts 

 come, the pots must be taken up, and placed out of 

 the reach of hard frost, and where there is, however, 



