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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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testimony to the fact that in a locality and climate where Araucarias have perished 
by thousands, and though it has never been protected in the slightest degree, it 
is utterly unaffected, both as to 
vitality and hue, by the severest 
frosts. 
The parent plant, represented 
in the accompanying woodcut, 
reduced from a photograph, is 
about 9 ft. high, and 3 ft. 
through its widest part. The 
growth is so close and dense as 
to form a solid mass of spray, 
which is flattened, and set in a 
direction radiating with remark¬ 
able regularity from the centre 
or axis of the plant, and it is 
perhaps in some degree owing 
to this peculiarity of growth 
that the branchlets remain green 
to the very centre. In its sym¬ 
metrical outline, in the regularly 
radiating vertical ramifications, 
in the slender, graceful charac¬ 
ter of the everywhere erect 
spray, there is about this plant 
an air of refinement rarely met 
with, and which, combined with 
its bright and enduring verdure, stamp it as a gem of the first order amongst 
hardy evergreens.—M. 
HOLLYHOCKS FOE EXHIBITION. 
planting out the Hollyhock to grow for exhibition purposes, the plants 
should be in rows 4 ft. apart, and the plants 3 ft. apart in the rows. The 
ground best suited for them is rich old garden soil, well trenched over to 
the depth of 2 ft., with plenty of thoroughly-rotted manure dug in with it. 
If the subsoil is wet, they will thrive remarkably well in the summer, but if the 
plants are allowed to stand out all the winter in such a situation, they will un¬ 
doubtedly suffer. In planting, the grower should endeavour to secure as much 
as possible of floral effect, and should therefore endeavour to get the tallest 
growers in the centre of his bed or quarter, and arrange the colours so as to 
harmonize the one with the other as much as possible. Plant out in March or 
April, putting in about the roots some manure, mingled with soil. When the 
