200 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
HOLLYHOCK. 
AMIUTIOV. 
Tin: towering height of this majestic plant ren- 
ders it an appropriate emblem of ambition. It is a 
native of the East Indies, China, Siberia, and Africa. 
From the French name, Rose de Damas, or Rose 
d'Outremer, it is surmised that the Hollyhock was 
first brought to Europe from Syria at the time of 
the Crusades. 
We have few flowers that contribute more to the 
embellishment of large gardens than the Hollyhock, 
whose noble stems appear like so many banners 
garnished with roses of every variety of colour, from 
the palest blush to the deepest carmine, and from a 
faint white, through every shade of yellow, to the 
richest orange, from which the colour is carried on 
to a dark chestnut. Others are dyed of a reddish 
purple, deepening to black. These give gaiety to 
the shrubbery till a late season of the year, throwing 
out a succession of flowers till the arrival of frost. 
