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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Finns Strobus .—A great number of young trees of recent planting, all 
doing well, particularly those growing in clay soil. 
Taxodium sempervirens .—There is one nice plant here. It stood out the 
winter of 1860-61 uninjured. It is growing in a gravelly soil and a 
sheltered, dry situation. 
Taxodium, distich'um .—Several thriving young plants. 
Thujopsis borealis .—Some promising young specimens of this Conifer. 
Thuja Lobbii .—Several very fine young plants of this. 
Wellingtonia gigantea .—A number of fine specimens. The tallest is 
16 feet high, the next 15 feet, and the next 14 feet; all the others are under 
this height. We have them growing in a great variety of soils and situ¬ 
ations. Those in strong loamy soils are growing the best. 
We have also some small plants of Retinospora obtusa, Sciadopitys 
verticillata, and others; but as we have not had them long, nor planted 
them extensively, I cannot say much about them. From present appearances 
I am very sanguine about them. 
We have not so great a variety as may be met with in many places; 
but of those that are highly ornamental and perfectly hardy we have 
planted very extensively, and, with very few exceptions, no trees could 
possibly be doing better. With the exception of a few Cedars of Lebanon, 
all the others have been planted within the last sixteen years, most of them, 
indeed, within the last ten years, consequently we have no very large speci¬ 
mens ; but there are thousands of very promising ones, which, in a few 
years, will be superb trees. We apprehend nothing from frosts however 
severe they may be; our worst enemy is the west wind, to which some 
portions of the grounds are a good deal exposed. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
ON STOCKS. 
Just now, when seed lists are being searched and ^orders are being dis¬ 
patched by intending growers, a few words under the above heading may be 
of service to those who grow Stocks, but are not intimately acquainted with 
the classes in which the many varieties are grouped. Seed lists are gene¬ 
rally too heavily freighted with “ collections of imported Stocks,” some of 
them containing from twelve to twenty-four supposed colours, but of this 
number only a very few are really distinct and fitted to appear in the garden. 
In order to get only distinct colours some seedsmen import their own 
colours_that is, they make a selection of some six or eight of the most 
decided colours, and make up their own collections. This involves a con¬ 
siderable amount of labour, but the buyer is much benefited by it, as 
o-enerally the flowers will be of such colours as crimson, white, blue, purple, 
rose, and similar shades, and not such as ash-grey, brick red, black-brown, 
and others of dubious character. 
The best class of Stocks for general garden decoration is the Large- 
flowering Ten-Week German, as the imported varieties are termed. The 
plants grow from about 9 to 12 inches in height, and from 70 to 80 per cent, 
of them invariably come double. They remain in bloom a considerable 
time, as in addition to the leading spike of flowers a great many smaller 
shoots spring out from the plant on all sides, and from this habit they have 
been termed “ branching Stocks.” For cut blooms this class is invaluable; 
and I have known them remain in bloom for a long period when the summer 
