September, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
185 
another tone of a color will show off well 
against it. 
Passepartout is a simple but attractive 
way in which to frame photos and other 
simple pictures. Many of the outdoor 
scenes in the magazines are worthy of a 
place on our walls for their beautiful 
finish. 
One young woman on her return from 
college wanted to renovate and make her 
room attractive in a novel manner. “The 
walls are the main point,” said she. “All 
the rest of the room's belongings will 
naturally fall into place harmoniously.” 
So. having selected her wall paper — a de¬ 
sign of wild rose sprays on a cream-white 
background — as the key note of the room's 
furnishings, she soon evolved therefrom 
a lovely combination throughout in cream 
and pink tints. From among her large 
collection of black and white prints she 
selected those of a size. All were out¬ 
door scenes of woodland, pretty bits of 
roadside views, etc. These pictures were 
set between rows of picture molding in 
stained oak with similar strips set in to 
divide each scene. The whole effect was 
very attractive as she had tinted the back¬ 
ground of all the pictures very slightly 
with a water color wash in a light rose 
tint, and the natural tints were used for 
touching up the foliage roads, and the like. 
Just suggestive coloring it was, as more 
color would spoil the desired effect. 
T. Celestine Cummings 
Hollyhocks 
M Y attention has been lately drawn 
to the beauty of the fig-leaved or 
Antwerp hollyhock (Althaea ficifolia), 
which has the great merit of resisting 
the fungoid disease unfortunately asso¬ 
ciated with one of the noblest of garden 
flowers. A ficifolia is a species, that is, a 
native plant, and is distinguished by vig¬ 
orous growth, without a taint of disease, 
and stems about twelve feet high lined 
with pure yellow flowers which have a 
pleasant shade in the full sunlight and the 
cool evening air, creating the same im¬ 
pression as the fragant evening prim¬ 
rose. This is certainly a hollyhock to 
purchase and to rejoice over its bold, 
clean growth and clear yellow flowers. 
We wish, however, for more than one 
hollyhock, and still have faith in the fav¬ 
orite A. rosea, which is the parent of the 
hollyhock of our gardens. It need not 
be mentioned that there is a wide range 
to colors in the varieties, pure white to 
crimson, with intermediate tones as var¬ 
ied and beautiful as in the rose itself. 
The plants still suffer from the disease, 
but my experience is that it is less preva¬ 
lent in seedlings raised in May than in 
those sown in heat. It may be interesting 
to mention that the fig-leaved hollyhock 
(A. ficifolia ) is a Siberian plant, and 
should be grown in the same way as those 
we are more acquainted with. The yel¬ 
low fig-leaved hollyhock is a welcome 
change from the monstrously double 
florists’ flowers now so often met with 
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