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SELECTIONS OE HOLLYHOCKS, OLD AND NEW. 



In these lists there are none entered but 

 such as are of sterling merit and fit for ex- 

 hibition, still, as a whole, they will not 

 equal in quality those given in previous 

 issues of the Floral World. After those 

 previously enumerated, these stand next in 

 the order of merit : — 



twelve best hollyhocks for 1861. 

 Regina (Chater), clear deep pink ; Mr. 

 Roake (Bragg), primrose ; Reine Blanch 

 (ditto), pure white ; Illuminator (Chater), 

 scarlet carmine ; Tyrian Prince (ditto), 

 purple ; Mignonette (ditto), soft salmon 

 pink ; Mrs. (Jhater (ditto), pink tinted with 

 curmine ; Leonora (ditto), peculiarlyshaded; 

 Margaret (llawke), crimson maroon ; Op- 

 tima (Chater), straw heavily suffused with 

 pink ; Lady Helena Stewart (ditto), light 

 rosy crimson ; Mary Ann (ditto), rose with 

 silvery edges, fine. 



tw,=:lvb best hollyhocks of 1860 and 

 previous years. 



Geant des Batailles Surpass (Chater), 

 vivid crimson scarlet ; Black Knight 



(Bland), the finest and darkest varietj- yet 

 out ; Excelsior (Chater), fawn heavily suf- 

 fused with salmon ; Lucy (ditto), glowing 

 crimson, amber base ; Jaune (ditto), clear 

 yellow; Violet (ditto), beautiful light purple; 

 Colonel Howardbyre (Bragg), crimson red ; 

 Disraeli (ditto), crimson maroon ; Walden 

 Masterpiece (Chater), lemon and pink ; 

 Mont Blanc (ditto), pure white ; Pink Noi- 

 sette (ditto), pink ; Tyrian Prince (ditto), 

 deep purple. 



twelve best old and <;heap holly- 

 hocks. 

 Beauty of Walden (Chater), rose car- 

 mine ; Admiration (ditto), violet, white 

 edges; Queen of Whites (Paul), purewiiite; 

 Memnon (ditto), crimson ; In Memoriam 

 (ditto), claret ; Purple Perfection (Chater), 

 purple; Queen of Buffs (ditto), buff; Ves- 

 per Bell (ditto), pure white, violet base ; 

 General Havelock (Paul), crimson scarlet ; 

 Shrubland Gem (Chater), clear lilac ; Lilac 

 Queen (ditto), lilac blush ; Annie (ditto), 

 flesh wliite ; Ceres (ditto), rosy crim- 

 son. 



GAEDEN AND GEEENHOUSE WOEK FOE MAY. 



Annuals are held in light estimation 

 because people do not really cultivate them 

 Thin out the patches and top the branching 

 kinds, and they will bloom so vigorously 

 as to be altogether uidike the crowded 

 spindling things on which people vent their 

 abuse. Quick flowering annuals sown in 

 shady places at the end of the month or 

 early in June, will come into flower for 

 succession to those that are exhausted, and 

 prove of great service. 



Bedding plants to be kept growing till 

 of sufficient size for hardening off, and fresh 

 cuttings put in of those of which the stocks 

 are short. Sorts tlr.it are in a tit state for 

 turning ont, to be carefully hardened first, 

 as any severe and sudden check will put 

 them back tremendously. Place them in 

 cold pits first and shade from mid-day sun, 

 and cover up at night. By degrees, let 

 them have full exposure, and to be left un- 

 covered night and day before turning out. 

 Plants purchased from nurseries generally 

 require careful hardening, owing to their 

 having been pushed rather fast. In select- 

 ing at nurseries, piefer plants from open 

 frames if you can get them. 



Beet of the first sowing to be thinned 

 to one foot apart as soon as large enough. 

 From the 7th to the 14th is early enough to 



sow for a crop of moderate-sized roots to 

 store for winter. 



Brocoli. — Sow the second week, both 

 early and late sorts, not forgetting Snow's 

 Winter White and Lee's New Sprouting. 



Capsicums and Tomatoes may be 

 turned out on warm borders towards the 

 end of the month, but there will he nothing 

 gained by over haste. Tomatoes planted 

 against hot walls should be covered every 

 night till the first week in June. 



CAULiFLOvrERS. — Give manure water to 

 the forwardest to produce large heads. 

 Sow for the autumn supply. 



Celery. — In pricking out, choose a 

 hard bottom for the bed, on which lay 

 four inches of rotten dung, and two inches 

 of liglit rich soil. Handle the plants ten- 

 derly', water lightly and regularly, and 

 keep the lights over till they look brisk 

 and growing. Tliey will lift from such a 

 bed with vigorous roots, and at the first 

 planting out, choose the forwardest plants 

 and let the others remain for the next set 

 of trenches. 



Chrysanthemums make nice plants for 

 ordinary purposes from May cuttings, and 

 better wltliout than with bottom-heat. 



Cinerarias going out of bloom to be 

 in cold frames, and the collar of each 



