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Fig. 88. DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKS. Few plants are more showy or more stately 

 than the double Hollyhock and every retail grower should have a display of them 



on his home grounds 



March, when the first hotbed is ready. Pot up the cuttings sepa- 

 rately in 2-in. pots, and plunge in the hotbed, where they can remain 

 until wanted for bedding. Among the sorts usually carried are 

 A. brilliantissima, the best red shade; A. Swybolde, a good yellow 

 and a heavy grower; A. Carroll, a dark bedder, dwarf red; and 

 A. aurea nana, dwarf yellow. 



ALTH^A (HOLLYHOCKS) 



One cannot very well imagine a so-called "old-fashioned" garden 

 without Hollyhocks. While their stay is but a short one compared 

 with that of other flowers, yet when they are in full bloom hardly 



anything else can get itself noticed. 



The day is past when we grew Hollyhocks, picked the individual 

 flowers off the stems and sold them by the hundred (for as little as 

 thirty or forty cents) to be used on toothpicks for design work; the 



