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Carters’ Prize Show and Fancy Hollyhock. 
THE CULTIVATION OF THE 
HOLLYHOCK AS AN ANNUAL. 
Now that the Hollyhock has taken a prominent position at 
most of our leading Flower Shows, we think a few hints on its 
cultivation will be useful to amateurs, especially as there appears 
to be a misapprehension as to the time it takes 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. 
x. d. 
No. 54 Hollyhock, Show, 12 choice varieties 6 0 
„ 55 „ „ 6 „ „ 3 6 
Price per packet— s. d. 
,, 644 Hollyhock, Show, choice mixed 1/0 & 2 6 
, 645 ,, Fancy, „ „ 1/0 & 2 6 
„ 646 „ Mammoth Fringed, 
choice mixed .„ .1/6 & 2 6 
Photograph taken at our Trial Grounds, Mortlakt. 
Photographed fr om Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. &* Co. 
GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA. 
No. 602 - Price, per packet, 6d. 
This graceful plant is universally employed in bouquets of all sizes, and 
imparls a delicate gauzy shade to bright coloured flowers. May be grown as 
annual or perennial. 
CARTERS'. 237, 23B, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON.—1900. 
Per packet.— s. d. 
Gladiolus (Sword Lily) •—Hardy bulbous plant of great 
beauty and utility ; excellent in mixed beds or borders. 
No. 575. Hybrids. Saved from the choicest varieties. 3 feet ... 1/0 & 2 6 
Globe Amaranthus.^ 
-Excellent greenhouse pot plant. 
No. 576. Orange. Singular crisp petals; almost an everlasting 
„ 577- Purple. A decorative favourite ; rich colour. 1 feet 
0 6 
0 6 
Globe Thistle (Eehinops) 
•—Old garden favourite. 
No. 578. Sphceroeephalus. Eccentric flower for cutting ; bee feeder ... 0 6 
Gourd (Cueurbita) 
‘ —Ornamental fruited climbers ; used 
for arbours, trelliswork, &c. ; half-hardy annuals. 
No. 595. Bottle. Used in eastern climes; singular fruit ... ... ... 0 6 
,, 596. Mi,xed. Various eccentric and bright fruits ; ornamental ... ... 1 0 
Greenhouse Seeds. —Specially suited to amateurs who are 
fond of experiments in fancy floriculture. 
No. 597. Mixed. All kinds of flowers in mixture ... ... 1 / 0 , 2/6 & 5 0 
Grevillea (Australian Fern Oak) •-Half- 
hardy shrub ; in great use for decorative purposes. 
No. 598. Robusta. The best species for general use ; graceful ... 1/0 & 2 6 
Gypsophila (Cloud Plant) 
•—Graceful 
wavy blossom ; of great service in bouquets, vases, &c. 
No. 599. EleganS, cream white ; No. 600. Rosea, rose 
,, 602. Panieulata. The pure white perennial kind, ij feet 
„ 601. Muralis. Hardy annual for rockwork. 6 inches 
panicles of 
... each 0 3 
. 0 6 
. 0 3 
Helianthus. 
—See Sunflower, page 110. 
