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CARTERS’ PRIZE “FANCY” HOLLYHOCK SEED. 
The Seed we offer is again specially saved for us from the finest Collection in England. 
SEE ALSO COLOURED ILLUSTRATION, PAGE 39. 
THE CULTIVATION OF THE HOLLYHOCK 
AS AN ANNUAL. 
Now that the Hollyhock has again taken a prominent 
Plants grown from our Prize position at most of our leading Flower Shows, we think a few 
Hollyhock Seed were awarded hints on its cultivation will be useful to amateurs, especially as 
eight FIRST PRIZES In sue- there appears to be a misapprehension as to the time it takes 
cession at Cirencester. to produce bloom; many persons thinking that the operation 
takes two years, whereas flowers can be obtained in five months. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.— Any one possessing an ordinary garden frame can raise the 
plants from seeds by preparing a slight hot-bed for bottom heat in February or March. The seed 
should then be sown on the bed on good loamy soil. 
When in rough leaf, the young plants should be pricked out 3 or 4 inches apart in a cool frame, 
and be transferred to their permanent places, in ground very highly manured, early in April. 
If the weather be cold after planting out, pots should be placed over them at night to be removed 
on the following morning, and repeated for three or four weeks if the nights are cold. 
If these simple directions be attended to, the result will be found to well repay the trouble, fine 
spikes in the following August and September will be ensured, and the disease to which Hollyhocks 
have been considered so susceptible will be defied. 
For Show Varieties, see page 39. 
We offer, for the first time, a New Section under the name of Fancy Hollyhocks. The flowers are 
superbly double, and the colours embrace the richest shades of yellow, rose, crimson, primrose, 
lavender, mauve, and white ; each flower having a distinct guard petal, giving it a novel and 
pretty appearance. 
d. 
6 
Price per Collection— s. 
No. 1566 -Fancy Hollyhock, 6 choice vars. 3 
No. 1567— Fancy Hollyhock 12 choice vars. 6 0 
No. 
No. 
772- 
Price per Packet - 
-Finest Mixed, Fancy 
■s. d. s. 
1 6 & 2 
771— Finest Mixed, Show 1 6 & 2 6 
no. 938 -CARTERS’ 
Compact French Gold-Striped 
Marigold. 
As the result of many 
years’ careful selection, 
we are enabled to offer 
a strain of this sturdy 
Annual, that has been 
hitherto unequalled. 
The even and compact 
habit Is most uniform and 
constant, each plant form- 
ing a handsome Bouquet. 
“Very compact and dwarf. The succession of flowers produced is marvellous, it being in bloom now, Oct. and." 
Mr. J. MALCOLM, Head Gardener to The Most Noble The Marquis o! CHOLMONDELEY. 
“ Splendid. The best strain I ever saw.” — Head Gardener, Royal Gardens. 
No. 938— Price, in sealed packets, is. 6d. and 2s 6d. perjracket. 
“Gold Striped Marigolds. — 
We had few more showy things 
in flower during the autumn, and 
well into October, than the dwarf 
French Marigolds, which are very 
easy of cultivation, and wondrous- 
ly free of bloom. The most com- 
pact growing and brightest coloured 
variety that has yet come under 
our notice, is the variety which 
Messrs. Carter call their Compact 
French Gold-striped, of which we 
give an illustration, to show its 
low prostrate habit, and desirable 
character on that account, as a 
bedding plant. It really grows 
only about 6 in. high on ordinary 
soil, and the flowers are most 
regular in form and marking, the 
ground colour being golden yellow, 
and the stripes chestnut brown.” — 
Gardening World. 
