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winds, the dwarf Hollyhock is the most desirable ; 

 and when some of these are planted in front of the 

 taller kind, it adds considerably to the beauty of 

 the group. AVhen the children of the lower classes 

 of society have become more civilized, and their 

 parents sufficiently enlightened to instruct them in 

 their duty, so that their amusement may not con- 

 sist in idly destroying what cannot benefit them, 

 but materially injures their more polished neigh- 

 bours, the Hollyhock will be planted in the hedges 

 of our fields, and the whole appearance of the coun- 

 try be much improved by relieving the uniformity 

 of the generality of fences. Considerable benefit 

 would, at the same time, be received by those 

 cottagers who have the prudence to give attention 

 to the hive, — since the late season at which the 

 Hollyhock flowers, gives the bees an opportunity 

 to make a second season for collecting their sweets ; 

 and when a wet or cold summer has impoverished 

 the hive, or brought sickness into the swarming 

 community, these autumnal flowers will afford 

 them relief, and give them strength to endure the 

 winter, which is also considerably shortened by 

 these flowers enabling them to subsist without fall- 

 ing on their store at too early a season . 



The ancients attended their bees with so much 

 care, that the hives were conveyed in the night to 



