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removed from a small mountain or sea-side flower, 
is now become almost a shrub in size, whose branches 
are covered with blossoms little inferior in dimen¬ 
sions to the rose, and so thickly set as to form a 
mass of beauty not surpassed by any of the exotics 
which the other quarters of the globe have poured 
into our gardens. Phillips mentions a Stock grown 
at Notting Hill, near Bayswater, which measured 
eleven feet nine inches in circumference, in May, 
1822. 
Stocks are produced of several colours, both 
double and single, red, white, purple, and speckled. 
Of these the bright red or carmine Stock must ever 
remain the favourite variety. The principal branches 
of this fragrant family are the Ten-week Stock, so 
named from flowering in about ten weeks after it 
is sown; and the Brompton, which does not blossom 
till about twelve months after sowing, and was first 
cultivated in the neighbourhood of Brompton. 
Phillips gives an amusing account of the beneficial 
effect which the sight and name of this flower had 
on the spirits of an acquaintance with whom he was 
making a tour in Normandy, in the first summer 
after the restoration of Louis XVIII. “ He had 
been induced to join a small party, and leaves his 
