330 FLORA HISTORICA. 



plants with double flowers of many different co- 

 lours. 



A late traveller in Africa says, the Hollyhock is 

 also a native of the Marootzee country, where he 

 found it oTowino: wild amontr the rocks around 

 Kurrecchane ; but these appear to have been only 

 of a yellow colour. 



Linnaeus ascribes the Hollyhock to Siberia ; and 

 as we have at different times received seeds from 

 all the various places where it grows naturally, 

 we have not only procured all the varieties which 

 these countries produce, but by bringing them 

 together into one spot, so that the several kinds 

 have been impregnated by each other, we have 

 procured a greater variety in their colours than is 

 to be found in any one country where it grows 

 spontaneously. ]\Iany of the colours of these 

 flowers have been changed by accidental circum- 

 stances ; and that the corollas have become doubled 

 by the art of cultivation, there can be doubt in the 

 mind of the florist who has regarded the formation 

 of the flower. Miller says, although the varieties 

 of the double Hollyhocks are not constant, yet 

 where the seeds are carefully saved from the most 

 double flowers, the greatest number of the plants 

 will arise nearly the same as the plants from which 

 they were taken, both as to their colour and the 

 fulness of their flowers, provided no plants with 



