In American cut-flower work, the White Stock holds a place little inferior to the Carnation, and a good everblooming kind would be nearly as valuable. In some respects it would be more valuable, as its tendency to flower at a season when Carnations are scarce, is a strong point in its favor.

Mr. Chas. Lorenz, of Erfurt, has succeeded in producing a perpetual flowering one, which, as the illustration shows, continues to produce flowers in succession from the top downwards, as long as the plant lasts. In this case, the blooming season continues open several months. We regard it as one of the best boons to florists that has appeared for some time. In fact, it marks much the same era in floriculture that inaugurated the winter-blooming Carnation. If sown early, it will produce flowers in the open air from May till November or December.

White Perpetual Flowering Stock, Princess Alice.