100 
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. 
No. 54 
55 
644 
645 
„ 646 
S. d. 
Hollyhock, Show, 12 choice varieties 6 0 
»♦ ^ 3 6 
Price per packet— s. d. 
Hollyhock, Show, choice mixed 1/0 & 2 6 
,, Fancy, „ „ 1/0 & 2 6 
,, Mammoth Fringed, 
choice mixed .1/6 & 2 6 
Photograph taktn at our Trial Grounds , Mortlaki. 
Photographed from Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. Co. 
CULTIVATED MALLOWS FOR CUT FLOWERS. 
Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum). 
No. 654. Crystallinum. Foliage sparkles with ice globules .. ... 0 6 
Impatiens (Balsam)._ Gt „ nhouie „„ u ^ 
No. 655. Sultani (Zanzibar Balsam).— Perpetual bloomer ... 1/0 & 2 6 
Indian Pink (Dianthus chinensis). 
No. 656. Choice (Carters’) ... 10 No. 657. Mixed. Ordinary 0 3 
Ionopsidium (Violet Cress). 
No. 658. Acaule. Pale lilac ; for pots, edgings, or rockwork ... ... 0 6 
Ipomopsis (Gilia var.)._ H . lt . h „ ay „ n „.,. 
No. 659. Picta,. Scarlet and yellow blossom, feathery foliage. feet ... 0 6 
Iris (Fleur de Lys)._ H « riyp «„ ni . IMb . 
No. 660. Mixed. All sorts, excellent for mixed borders, wild places, 
. -.6 & 1 0 
,, 661. Ksempferi. Japanese varieties of most attractive beauty 1/0 & 2 6 
Mallow, Cultivated (Lavatera, 
Maiope, &c.)''a'a 
— Much in use now in Belgium and elsewhere 
cut flower. 
No. 758. Pink Domino. Beautiful rose colour ; annual. 2 feet 
>1 759 - White Lady. Lovely pure white ; a chaste beauty 
,, 760. Maiope grandiflora. Old variety crimson Mallow. 
,, 761. „ alba. White - 3 No. 762. Rosea. Pale pink... 
,, 689. Lavatera. Red ... -/3 ,, 690. Lavatera. White 
,, 6S8. „ arborea variegata. Striped foliage ... 1/0 & 
1 0 
1 0 
0 3 
0 6 
0 3 
2 6 
CARTERS', 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON.—1901. 
