September  7,  1899. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  CCTTaGE  GARDENER, 
205 
BARR’S  SELECTED  BULBS 
For  EARLY  FORCING. 
HYACINTHS,  Dwarf,  White  Roman,  per  100, 
11/6  anil  14/6  ;  per  dozen,  1/9  and  2  - 
POLYAWTHBS  NARCISSUS,  Paper  White, 
Early  Snowflake,  per  100,  7/6  ;  per  dozen,  1/3. 
POLYANTHUS  NARCISSUS,  Double  Roman 
per  100,  6/6  ;  per  dozen,  1/3. 
PR  INCH  PS. — Perianth  sulphur  white,  trumpet 
yellow,  per  1000,  30/- ;  per  100,  3/6. 
GOLDEN  SPUR. — Large  full  yellow  perianth  and 
trumpet,  per  100,  21/- ;  per  dozen,  3/-. 
HOR&PIELDI.  —  White  perianth,  large  yellow 
trumpet,  per  100,  17/6  ;  per  dozen,  2/6. 
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1899.  Free  on  application. 
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THE  HOLLYHOCK. 
THE  cultivation  of  the  stateliest  of  hardy  autumn 
flowers  largely  resolves  itself  into  the  most 
certain  method  of  combating  the  now  well-known 
Hollyhock  disease,  which  may  precipitate  its  attack 
either  upon  the  infant  plant  when  it  cannot  be 
defeated,  or  it  may  wait  till  the  plant  has  lecome 
established  and  stroDg,  when  the  outcome  is  less 
certain.  It  is  possible  to  trace  the  Hollyhock  as 
a  cultivated  plant  from  the  fourteenth  century,  its 
earliest  appearance  having  been,  as  a  medicinal 
herb,  grown  in  gardens  for  its  roots  or  “  hcckis. 
Even  when  it  attained  the  status  of  a  garden  flower 
we  find  it  relegated  to  out-of-the-way  corners,  or 
placed  close  to  the  bottom  of  walls  wlure  its 
towering  superiority  was  least  conspicuous.  Hut 
during  all  the  centuries  down  to  the  present  it  was 
treated  as  a  biennial,  the  stock  having  been  without 
exception  always  increased  or  renewed  from  seeds 
sown  out  of  doors.  No  allusion  whatever  is  made 
to  the  disease  or  to  its  evil  effects. 
Growers  for  decorative  purposes  have  now  largely 
reverted  to  the  old  system,  but,  unfortunately,  not 
with  the  same  success  that  attended  the  gardeners’ 
efforts  of  past  times.  I  myself  am  not  singular  in 
failing  to  secure  to  young  plants  freedom  from 
disease  during  the  period  intervening  between  the 
seedling  stage  in  July,  the  usual  time,  and  autumn. 
Whether  bedded  out  in  the  open,  or  grown  in  pots, 
I  have  experienced  etptally  lad  results  in  diseased 
foliage,  and,  following  that,  roots  that  failed  to 
grown  The  effects  are  not  invariably  equally  bad, 
but  one  is  at  no  tune  certain  of  securing  a  healthy 
stock  by  this  means.  I  have  also  more  than  once 
raistcl  plants  from  seeds  sown  in  January  in  heat 
and  grown  in  a  warm  temperature,  which,  in  so  far 
as  freedom  from  disease  is  concerned,  is  a  satis¬ 
factory  practice.  But  this  system  of  crushing  into 
less  than  a  year  the  whole  life  of  the  plant  has  not 
been  attended  by  complete  success,  because  all  the 
plants  are  late  in  flowering,  and  a  proportion  fail 
altogether  to  reach  the  blooming  stage  ;  a  drawback 
which  is,  how’ever,  perhaps  confined  to  our  northern, 
climate. 
Jn  order  to  secure  strong  early  blooming  plants 
No.  2658.— Vol.  CL,  Old  Series. 
No.  1002.— V’ol.  XXXIX.,  Third  Series. 
