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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Febbcaet 23, 1906. 



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B. 



MEMORIES OF THE HOLLYHOCK. 



It was in the early seventies, says a 

 M-riter in the Gardeners' Chronicle, that 

 the dread hollyhock disease (Puccinia 

 malvacearum) was devasting the collec- 

 tions of plants about the country. One 

 of the features of the fungus is its rapid 

 germination, and in 1873-4 it appeared 

 to be widely diffused all over Europe, 

 and especially in this country. Nowhere 

 was its virulence more severely felt than 

 in the fine collection then in the posses- 

 sion of William Chater, at Saffron Wal- 

 den. So destructive was it that I believe 

 the catalogue Chater issued in the 

 autumn of 1874 was the last the veteran 

 distributed. It is a remarkable cata- 

 logue, as it contains the names of 109 

 varieties raised by Chater, and a few by 

 the Rev. Edward Hawke. I have a vivid 

 recollection of how these two celebrated 

 growers of the hollyhock used to pit 

 their strength against each other at 

 Bishop Auckland in the class for twelve 

 spikes; and such spikes! Shall we ever 

 see the like again f 



In 1842 Chater was gardener to a 

 Squire Stephenson, at Stepleburntished, 

 a^d becoming enamored of the hollyhock 

 he began both to grow it and to raise 

 new varieties. The first hollyhock which 

 it is believed he had in his garden was 

 Napoleon, yellow -and-red ; it was of 

 French extraction and rather double. Mr. 

 hater carefully fertilized this with one 

 of the improved varieties raised by C. 

 Baron, and the first variety he obtained 

 from seed was named Comet, a rosy scar- 

 let flower. Finding the hollyhock rising 

 in popularity, Mr. Chatej started in busi- 

 ness at Saffron Walden in the early for- 

 ties, and in 1844 or thereabouts he issued 

 his first catalogue. 



Meanwhile Adam Paul, of Cheshunt, 

 was commencing to improve the flower, 

 and raised some fine varieties, but W. 

 Chater distanced all his competitors as 

 a producer of fine seedlings. I visited 

 him at the tinke the fungus was most de- 

 structive, and \it was pitiable to see how 

 the stock suflf^ed, fine varieties becom- 

 ing wholly exunguished, to the great 

 grief of the veteran. Younj^ stock in 

 frames and growing plants went down 

 before the ravage* of the puccinia, never 

 to rise again. Happily for the hollyhock 

 and those who admire it, the flower is 

 being re-established i^ public favor. A 

 few of Mr. Chater 's vraising have sur- 

 vived, and now his successors, Messrs. 

 Webb & Brand, are producing varieties 

 of excellent properties from seed. 



It was high cultivation which pro- 

 duced fine hollyhocks in the past, and will 

 do so- again. Old garden soil trenched 

 two feet deep, and with the addition of 



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