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As thefe Plants are commonly 



bienn'al, and feldom continue longer 

 than the fecci.d Year, hence there 

 will be a Necefnty of Towing Seeds 

 every Year ; for when they have 

 flowered and feeded, they common- 

 ly decay foon after ; as alfo do the 

 double Flowers foon after they are 

 oat of Flower; or if fome of them 

 mould continue another Year, they 

 are feldom fo ftrong, or produce fuch 

 fair Flowers, as the young feedling 

 Plants : fo that, upon the Whole, 

 they are fcarcely worth Handing. 

 And tho' ibme People recommend 

 the propagating the double Sorts 

 from Slips and Cuttings, as the fu- 

 reft Way to have double Flowers, 

 which indeed is very true ; yet the 

 Plants tims rais'd are always weaker 

 than thofe rais'd from Seeds, and 

 never produce their Flowers near 

 fo large or fair: wherefore (as I 

 faid before) it is better to have a 

 Succcfiicn of feedling Plants every 

 Year, amongit which you will al- 

 ways have a Quantity of double 

 Flowers, provided your Seed be 

 good. 



The Brumpion Stock-gilliflower is 

 by many People moft valued for the 

 Largenefs of its Flowers, and the 

 Brightnefs of their Colour : but this 

 Sort feldom produces more than one 

 Spike of flowers upon a Plant ; 

 whereas the Italian and purple Sorts 

 produce feveral very fair Bunches 

 upon each Plant, efpecially if they 

 Fave Strength. : and there is a Sort 

 commonly call'd the Stock- major 

 (which, probably, is the feyenth 

 Sort here mentioned), which branch- 

 es o.,t on every Side, and produces 

 raanv fair Spikes of Flowers from 

 one Root ; thefe are of a beautiful 

 red Colour : as doth another Sort, 

 commonly (though falfly) call'd the 

 Annual-flock, which will produce 

 its Flowers the firft Year from Seed ; 



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but then the Plants commonly con- 

 tinue the next Scafon, and flower 

 again veryftrong; and thefe often 

 produce fome Variety in the Colour 

 of their Flowers ; fome being of a 

 beautiful fcarlet, others of a pale- 

 red Colour, and fome of them are 

 finely variegated; and thefe alt pro- 

 due'd from Seeds taken from the 

 fame Plant : but this Sort is very 

 apt to degenerate, if the Seeds are 

 not frequently changed. 



The fmall annual Stock-gilliflow- 

 er will produce Flowers in about 

 ten Weeks after fowing(which has oc- 

 cafion'd its being call'd the ten Weeks 

 Stock) ; and if the Seafon be to- 

 lerably cool and moift, thefe Flow- 

 ers will be very large : and often 

 there are large double Flowers pro- 

 duct among them, which renders 

 them well worth propagating, efpe- 

 cially if you fow them in May t 

 which will caufe them to flower in 

 Augujl and September, when Flowers 

 are beginning to be fcarce in the 

 Gardens. Thefe Plants produce 

 ripe Seeds the fame Year, and rarely 

 furvive a Winter. 



Thefe Plants mould all be plant- 

 ed in a frclh light Soil, which mull 

 not be dung'd ; for they don't fuc- 

 ceed upon a rich Soil, in which they 

 are apt to grow very rank, and then 

 their Roots canker and decay ; fo 

 that they feldom abide the Winter 

 in fuch Soils ; but in a frefli Soil 

 they will Hand our ordinary Win- 

 ters extremely well, and will pro- 

 duce large fair Flowers. 



The common Angle Wall-flower 

 is very feldom cultivated in Gardens, 

 but is often found growing upon 

 old Walls and Buildings in divers 

 Parts of England: this is the Sort 

 which is directed in the College 

 Difpenfatory for medicinal Ufes : 

 but the double of this Kind is very 

 common in moft of the Engiifi 

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