NOTEWORTHY PERENNIALS 



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There are sin^'les and doubles. The doubles are popular, but the sin^des 

 are always admired because of their simple beauty and individuahty. 

 A group of well grown Hollyhocks in bloom is worth going to see. It 

 is really the color that we look for, because the leaves are large, coarse 

 and grow mostly in clumps at the base of the plant. The long spikes 

 of flowers grow from .5 feet to 8 feet high and there are usually from 

 live to nine blossoms in bloom on each weU grown stalk. The average 

 size is about 2 inches or 3 inches across, but o-inch blooms can be had 

 if good attention is given. The colors range from white to almost 

 black and include shades of pink, flesh, rose-pink, salmon-rose, golden 

 yellow, canary-yeUow, dark red, purple-crimson, dark maroon, white 

 and combinations of practically all these colors with either white centers 

 or white margins. The blooming period is from late June through 

 September. Fringed petaled sorts are catalogued as Allegheny Holly- 

 hocks and are exquisite. There are also annual sorts which may be 

 depended upon to bloom the same year they are sown. 



Uses. Hollyhocks at the present time have a great landscape 

 value to hide unsightly places, to work in the border, or among the 



Tall Hollyhocks to greet us through the open window. 



