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the season, and, unless they are allowed plenty of root-room, their 
blooming season will he comparatively short ; but those who are 
partially unacquainted with the culture of pot-plants will act a wise 
part in resting satisfied with a moderate display of floral beauty, 
rather than to risk potting their plants late in the season. With an 
annual shift, and attention to the simple hints which I have just 
laid down, this Correa will remain many years in perfection, and, by 
its abundant display of bloom during the winter months, will well 
repay the trifling care which its culture requires. When the plants 
become too large to be conveniently shifted, it will be better to throw 
them to the rubbish-heap, and to supply their places with young 
plants, as, if kept after they become pot-bound, they seldom flower 
satisfactorily. 
DOUBLE BROMPTOR, QUEER, AND TER-WEEK 
STOCKS. 
|EW hardy plants are more valuable than the different 
varieties of Brompton, Queeu, and Ten-week Stocks, 
when double and clear in colour, either as objects for 
decorating the flower-garden or the sitting-room, both 
as regards their fragrance and long duration ; and at 
the same time there are few plants upon which there is so much 
uncertainty. Very few persons care for the single stock, which in 
the double state is the admiration of everybody. I shall, therefore, 
endeavour to point out the surest means of obtaining double flowers, 
and at the same time show how they should be treated, so as to have 
plants in bloom from April to Rovember, and even, in very mild 
winters, all the year round. 
In commencing, first procure, if possible, seeds of a good kind 
(that is, from some place where more double than single ones are 
produced from the seed), for in so doiug you may save yourself 
much disappointment. They are exceedingly easy of cultivation, 
merely requiring to be sown in a rich loamy soil, not very retentive, 
and at different seasons, so as to produce a succession. Those which 
should be put in at the present season, namely, the Brompton and 
Queen Stocks, should be sown at two different times ; one about the 
end of June, and again in the end of July, in a border or bed not 
verv rich or confined, merely screened from the mid-day sun. If 
such a situation is, however, not convenient, sow in the open 
ground, and put a few twiggy branches over the beds, placing the 
branches flat on the ground, which will be quite shade enough, 
removing them again as soon as the young plauts begin to show 
their first rough leaves ; otherwise they become drawn, and conse- 
quently never flower well. In sowing the Brompton and Queen 
Stocks, always sow rather thinly, and on ground -which is somewhat 
firm ; for, if sown on very loose, fresh-dug ground, and if the soil is 
rich, which it should be, the plants grow too rapidly, become soft, 
and are very liable to be destroyed iu winter if the latter should 
