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Medal 
A  R  R’S 
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EMPEROR,  petals  primrose,  trumpet  full  yellow,  large 
£rreat  substance,  per  100  31/-,  per  doz.  4/6. 
nLhlRY  IRVING,  one  of  the  earliest,  very  large  flower, 
golden  yellow,  per  100  21/-,  per  doz.  3/-. 
<JUEEN  OF  SPAIN,  very  beautiful  delicate  soft  yellow, 
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BICOLOR  HORSEFIELDI,  petals  pure  white,  trumpet 
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THE 
ECCENTRICITIES 
DISEASE. 
OF 
THESE  are  numerous,  but  I  desire  to  note  one 
or  two  only.  Why,  for  example,  is  it  im¬ 
possible  to  depend  on  the  certain  growth  ami 
flowering  of  the  Hollyhock  in  some  gardens,  while 
in  others  it  succeeds  comparatively  well  ?  Was  it 
a  mistake  to  assume  the  first  appearance  of  the 
disease  to  have  been  directly  due  to  atmospheric 
influences  which  destroyed  the  plants  nearly  every¬ 
where,  and  which  has  left  its  power  to  harm 
behind  ? 
The  Hollyhock,  it  must  he  remembered,  is  one 
of  our  oldest  exotic  flowers,  cultivated  for  at  least 
three  centuries,  hut  as  seedlings  only,  and,  so  far 
as  we  know,  free  from  disease.  The  appearance  of 
doubled  flowers  did  not  alter  the  method  of  pro¬ 
pagation  till  some  time  after  it  had  become  a 
florists’  flower,  a  Mr.  Baron  of  Saffron  W  alden 
having  been  the  first  person  who  seriously  under¬ 
took  its  development  about  sixty  years  ago  ;  while 
a  little  nearer  onr  own  time  it  was  subject  of 
discussion  whether  it  would  he  best  to  exhibit  it 
in  single  blooms  or  in  spikes  of  three  to  five 
blooms  on  each !  Messrs.  Chater,  and  P aul  also, 
while  increasing  the  size,  the  doubleness,  and 
generally  bringing  the  blooms  nearer  the  perfect¬ 
ness  of  many  a  gaideners’  striving,  accompanied 
this  with  increase  in  the  size  of  the  spikes  to  a 
wonderful  extent. 
Less  than  twenty  years  ago  this  superb  plant 
could  not  he  flowered  or  brought  near  the  flower¬ 
ing  stage,  and,  indeed,  in  the  epidemic  that  struck 
it,  it  was  all  but  lost  as  a  first-rate  varietal  flower. 
Had  intercrossing  and  high-class  cultivation,  as 
in  a  like  manner  a  high  state  of  civilisation  among 
men,  been  its  doom  ?  Very  likely.  For  the 
pestilence  failed  to  reach  single  varieties  that  had 
been  more  or  less  left  to  themselves,  and  which 
are  occasionally  to  be  found,  even  now,  in  luxuriant 
health,  without  a  taint  of  disease,  hearing  the  most 
lovely  cup-shaped,  crimped-euged  flowers. 
It  is  sometimes  declared  that  the  Puccini. i 
has  lost  its  powers,  hut  such  is  not  the  case 
The  fact  that  small  seedlings  grown  out  of 
No.  2616.— Vol.  XCIX.,  Old  Serii  s. 
