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the largest compound fiond of Angiopteris Evecta or the 
divided leaf of Godwinia Gigas, though the compound 
leaves of some Palms are still larger. The inner part of 
the stem and the young spike of the Ensete can be boiled 
to serve as a table esculent, but the fruit is pulpless. The 
plant produces no suckers and requires several years to 
come into flower and seed, when it dies off like the Sage 
plant, the Caryota Palm, and others, which flower but 
once without reproduction from the root. Musa Ensete 
prefers a clay soil, and will luxuriate in all the manure 
one dares to give it. 
HOLLYHOCKS. 
AXHIS is one of the most noble garden ornaments we 
= have. A fine bed of them are very effective in a large 
garden, and always have admirers, old fashioned though 
they be. It grows from a height of from five to eight 
feet, and the varieties are almost of every color, including 
white, and purple so deep as to be almost black. The 
seeds of the Hollyhock should be sown in March, and as 
goon as they come up should be thinned out and remain 
until Fall, when they may be planted where wanted to 
flower next Spring. They were introduced from China 
in 1573. The single flowered varieties are not of much 
account except as an ornament in the herbaceous border 
and nearly all the double ones can be used with fine effect 
in cut flower work; fer this purpose the double white 
pinks and yellows are in thelead. The double and single 
varieties should not be cultivated near each other in the 
garden, and if double ones only are required, the single 
ones should all be destroyed as soon as they bloom enough 
to reveal their character. If the seed buttons are kept 
cut away as quick as they appear, the plant will continue 
