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PROSPERITY. 
PROMPTITUDE. 
TEN-WEEK STOCK. 
This is a most valuable variety of the 
stock, for no sooner is the seed sown than 
it germinates, and after forty days it i& seen 
loaded with flowers. These are very tran¬ 
sient in their duration, and if we wish to 
have them throughout the summer season, 
we must sow them at three different periods, 
at intervals of about a month from each 
other. Nothing has more of freshness or 
variety than the shades of lilac, rose colour, 
and white, which are observed on these 
flowers; they also diffuse a charming odour. 
PROSPERITY. 
beech. 
Black was the forest, thick with beech it stood. 
DRYDEM. 
The beech may perhaps be regarded as 
the rival of the oak, from the beauty of its 
proportions and the utility of its wood; it 
will grow everywhere, though it seems to 
prefer a chalky soil, and thrives so rapidly 
that it is proverbially said it may be seen to 
prosper. 
