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5ults. Young- plants, however, if com- 

 menced on early enough, and attended to an- 

 nually, will be found quite amenable to this 

 system of summer pruning, when they are 

 in flower, and will not, unless the growth is 

 very vigorous, require any further attention 

 so far as pruning is concerned. 



Hamilton. W. Hunt. 



THE NEW HOLLYHOCKS. 



'HE hollyhock is being greatly im- 

 proved and is becoming one of the 

 first lawn flowers oi the day. The 

 improved sorts seems to be more of a 

 biennial order than perennial. It is one of 

 my special favorites, and why should it not 

 be? Here is a stately stock six feet high, 

 full of flowers, pure crimson scarlet, without 

 the usual rough brownish lines ; very large, 

 five inches in diameter this dry season, 

 perfect in shape and full double. It has 

 been named " Crimson Jackmanii.' I gave 

 it a good strong soil and good cultivation, 

 and get lots of flowers. 



Seed may be planted any time. I prefer 

 to plant the new seed as soon as ripe where 

 intended to flower, under a covering of 

 brush and hay, and I also protect during 

 winter with same. I now have plants in 

 full bloom (July 15) from seed so planted 

 last August. They generally come true 

 from seed, but not always ; one in ten may be 

 inferior, which should be pulled at once, and 

 one in fifty be an improvement, from which 

 the seed should be saved from a few of the 

 first flowers and planted at once ; also cut 

 down the stalk as soon as ripe, and at same 

 time take up and divide the root into as 

 many parts as eyes are showing growth, and 

 plant each part separately, shading them 

 until established. Such divided plants will 

 give superior flowers next year. To leave 

 the plant undivided over winter, the chances 

 are it would be dead in the spring. — 

 American Florist. 



Fig. 2088. Hollyhocks. 



