starred preeminently. There is no limit to their 

 tones, ranging through the whole palette from white 

 to black with the exception of blue, but the lavender 

 varieties approach even that color. 



There are now offered hollyhock seed which bloom 

 the first season, and from these we have obtained 

 some of our rarest shades of salmon. Our annual 

 hollyhocks have also proven to be perennials, as they 

 flower even better the second and third season. 



Unfortunately the hollyhock has of late years 

 bfeen subject to a blight or scale, and although we 

 have had some success in keeping this in check by 

 use of a spray of permanganate of potash on the 

 underside of the leaves, yet on the whole I think it 

 is better to sacrifice the plant affected and try rais- 

 ing new ones from new seed. 



One florist grows all his hollyhocks in Ohio, al- 

 though his nursery is in the East, as it has been 

 found that for some reason hollyhocks there grown 

 are free from the blight. 



Forget-me-not 



I often wonder how people find it so easy to do 

 without the forget-me-not, when I cannot conceive 

 of a spring without them. Planted on a bank wind- 



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