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single or bad colours are permitted to grow near 

 them. Therefore, so soon as any such appear, 

 they should be removed from the good ones, that 

 their farina may not spread into the other flowers, 

 which would cause them to degenerate. 



We have but few flowers that contribute more 

 to the embelhshment of large gardens than the 

 Hollyhock, although their hardy nature and easy 

 propagation have rendered them so common that 

 they are much less regarded by the generality of 

 florists than they deserve, since it yields to no 

 flower for the grandeur and beauty of its appear- 

 ance, as well as the great variety of its colours, 

 which embraces all the shades of the Rose, from 

 the palest blush to the deepest carmine : and from 

 a pure white the yellows are equally numerous, 

 until they reach to the richest orange, from which 

 the colour is carried on to a dark chesnut. Others 

 are dyed of a pale reddish purple, running up to a 

 black. 



The noble stalks which these plants send up, 

 like so many floral banners garnished with roses, 

 render the Hollyhock particularly desirable for 

 ornamenting the borders of plantations, and for 

 giving gaiety to the shrubbery in the later season 

 of the year, since it generally contuiues its suc- 

 cession of flowers until the frost warns the floral 

 goddess to depart. 



