C arm ell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
PERPETUAL STOCKS. 
The foregoing varieties of Stock have proved to be the most distinct 
and decorative, and suitable to the different styles of gardening for which 
the Stock is so admirably adapted. All are desirable pot-plants, and are 
greatly prized as cut flowers, boll) for their diverse colours and fragrance. 
For a continuous succession of bloom, seed should be sown at intervals 
from the beginning of March to the end of May, the first sowing under 
glass, the latter sowings may be made where the plants are intended to bloom 
8TENACTI8 SPECIOSA. 
h.p. Stenaetis Speeiosa, *yn Erigeron Speeiosus {Composite). 
— Purple flowers, plants 2 teet high. If the seed is sown in a slight hot-bed 
in March, it will produce flowering plants the same year. 3d. per pkt. 
Stipa— -See Ornamental Grasses. 
Sunflowers — -See Helianthus. 
Sweet Alyssum — See Alyssum Maritimum. 
Sweet Sultan — See Centanrea Moschata. 
Sweet William — See Dianthus Barbatus. 
WHITE MAMMOTH TEN-WEEK STOCK. 
TAGETES SIGNATA PUMILA. 
H.H.p. Statiee Bonduelli (Pbimbaginece ) — Light golden-coloured 
everlasting flowers. 1 ft. 3d. per pkt. 
g.p. Statiee Halfordii (Everlasting)— A superb bine variety ; useful 
for the decoration of the greenhouse. '2s. per pkt. 
m. A. Statiee Suworowi — By far the finest of all annual Static.es, and 
indeed one of the showiest annuals we possess; similar in habit to S. Spicata, 
but greatly superior to it. its branching flower spikes, of a very bright rose 
with a crimson shade, appear successively from ten to fifteen on each plant, 
and measure each fully 15 to 18 inches in length, and from 1 to 1 inch in 
breadth; the foliage lying flat on the ground is comparatively small, and 
completely hidden by the numerous flower spikes, each leaf being about 
5 inches long and l£ to 2 inches broad, undulated and glaucous. One plant 
will last in flower more than two months, and if sown in succession from 
February to April, it may be had constantly flowering throughout the 
summer and autumn. A whole bed of this lovely plant in full bloom is a 
truly magnificent sight, being one mass of flowers. 6 d. per pkt. 
u.A. Statiee Spicata (Everlasting) -Forms long spikes of rosy- 
dink flowers ; of easy growth. 3d. per pkt. 
Other Varieties of Statiee can be supplied. 
h.h.a. Stock, White Mammoth Ten-Week— Of luxurious robust 
growth ; attains in the open ground a height of 3 ft., and produces only 
a single strong spike, 1 ft. in length, closely covered with very large well- 
formed flowers of the purest white ; valuable for large groups. Is. per pkt. 
II.P. Stellaria Graminea Aurea (Caryophyllecc) — Neater than 
Golden Feather and, like that, far better from seeds than plants. 3 in. 
(id. per pkt. 
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