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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



PEEP O' DAY 

 The New Sweet Corn 



is the earliest, sweetest corn ever intro- 

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Our Quick Cash Cabbage is the earliest, 

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Send us 25c. in stamps, and we -null send you, post- 

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Our Nitro=Culture insures immense crops without fertilizers. Fully described in our catalogue. 

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Hollyhocks That Bloom the First 

 Year from Seed 



THE announcement made last year that 

 hollyhocks had been secured which 

 would bloom the first year from seed created 

 considerable stir in the floral world, and a 

 season's trial of the new strain shows that 

 although still far from perfection it is almost, 

 if not quite, an epoch-making novelty in 

 floriculture. The new strain has been 

 called " Everblooming Hollyhocks" because, 

 under the most favorable conditions, it will 

 give a succession of flowers from July until 

 frost. The seeds must be sown indoors from 

 February to April, and if the seedlings are 

 transplanted outdoors in May, they will begin 

 to flower in July or August, depending upon 

 how early the seed was started. A neighbor 

 of the undersigned has even sowed seeds 

 of these hollyhocks outdoors in May and 

 gotten a few flowers in August. The strain 

 is new yet and naturally contains a good many 

 undesirable forms and colors. 



These everblooming hollyhocks require 

 the very best care or they are likely to be 

 disappointing. The ground must be deeply 

 and well prepared, furnished with plenty 

 of well-rotted manure, and not allowed to 

 suffer from drouth. It is well to mulch 

 during the hot weather and to add liquid 

 manure occasionally. If all these things are 

 done, the plants will throw out side spikes 

 from the roots as well as branches from the 

 main spikes until growth is checked by frost. 

 Mr. R. Charlton of Los Angeles reports that 

 his plants began to bloom on the Fourth of 

 July, 1904, and continued to bloom until 

 January 13th, 1905. In the North, with 

 good management, they should bloom for 

 twelve weeks without cessation. The new 

 strain is said to be entirely free from the holly- 

 hock disease, and this immunity, which may 

 be only temporary, is probably due to the 

 fact that they have the vigor that seedlings 

 from crosses usually show. The strain was 

 created by a Russian botanist and hybridist 

 who says that they are a cross between 

 "Althcea rosea fl. pi. var. nigra and Althaea 

 ficifolia." The latter is a European species 

 with yellow or orange flowers, and its specific 

 name means "fig-leaved," referring to the 

 seven-lobed and toothed leaves which dis- 

 tinguish it from the common hollyhock 

 (Alt-Item rosea), which is a native of China. 

 Both species are biennial. 



We do not advise anybody to sow seeds 

 of the new strain outdoors in May with the 

 expectation of getting a full crop that season. 



New Jersey. T. M. Roberts . 



