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Wliat are known as “ Intermediate ” Stocks are 
raised from seeds sown in July or August under glass 
to flower early the following year. The “East 
Lothian ” Stocks are raised from seeds sown in March 
and April, to flower in late summer and autumn, the 
prevailing colours being crimson, pink, purple, white, 
and scarlet. The “ Brompton Stocks ” are vigorous 
plants with scarlet, white, purple, or crimson blossoms. 
Unfortunately, however, they can only be grown satis- 
factorily in warm sheltered spots, and in bleak parts of 
the Kingdom are best protected under glass in winter. 
Seeds may be sown under glass in June or July, to 
flower the following year. If, however, they are 
sown in gentle heat about February, and the young 
plants pricked out, and grown on steadily until the end 
of May, they may possibly flower in the open air the 
same season under favourable conditions. In trade 
catalogues there are numerous kinds of Stocks men- 
tioned, but they are all forms of those referred to here. 
The Night Scented Stock (M. tristis ) is a biennial, 1 to 
2 feet high, with ovate acute leaves. The flowers 
vary in colour from a dull white to a dull dark purple, 
and exhale a sweet fragrance in the evening. 
MECONOPSIS.— This genus contains some beauti- 
ful Poppy-like plants, annual, biennial, and perennial, 
some of them being remarkably free in growth in 
almost any garden soil. M. aculeata, about 2 feet high, 
with purple flowers 2 inches across, and M. nepcilensis. 
3 to 5 feet high, with pale golden flowers 2 to 4 inches 
across, are both biennial, and natives of North India, 
M. simplicA folia, 3 feet high, also from North India, 
is another biennial with violet-purple flowers, 2 to 3 
