Talk:stock-gillyflower

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stock alone[edit]

Chambers 1908 defines stock as "a favourite garden-flower" (not very helpful! — we do have to seem the correct flower sense at stock, however), and notes "originally called stock-gillyflower, to distinguish it from the stemless clove-pink, called the gillyflower". Equinox 12:19, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply