HOLLYHOCK. 359 



from the seeds procured from Madras he raised 

 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 growing wild among the rocks around 

 Kurreechane ; 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 natu- 

 rally, 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. Many of the colours of 

 these flowers have been changed by accidental 

 circumstances, and that the corollas have become 

 doubled by the art of cultivation, there can be no 

 doubt in the mind of the florist who has regarded 

 the formation of the flower. MiUer 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 num- 

 ber of the plants will arise nearly the same, as 

 the plants from which they were taken, both as 



