. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 92 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. prevent injury by winter damp; and full exjjosure to air and light. In places much overshadowed by trees, or where much hemmed in by walls and fences, hollyhocks do not prosper. They love sunshine and fresh air; they love good living; and in a hot, dry season may with great advantage be liberally supplied with water. On the question of single versus double hollyhocks there is not much to be said, because what is preferred to-day may be rejected to-morrow. Having through a course of years grown co
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 92 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. prevent injury by winter damp; and full exjjosure to air and light. In places much overshadowed by trees, or where much hemmed in by walls and fences, hollyhocks do not prosper. They love sunshine and fresh air; they love good living; and in a hot, dry season may with great advantage be liberally supplied with water. On the question of single versus double hollyhocks there is not much to be said, because what is preferred to-day may be rejected to-morrow. Having through a course of years grown collections of the finest named hollyhocks, our own taste inclines to the double flowers, the beauty of which might tempt one to speak of them as sublime. But few, very few, of the lovers of flowers in the present day have any proper idea of what a hollyhock of the florist's type is like; in the days when they were freely and finely exhibited they filled with surprise the novitiates, and we hope to see them do so again, for, as we have said above, between eclipse and annihilation there is a difference. Disease has not destroyed the potato, and this, our grandest of border-flowers, gives many welcome signs of its intention to live through the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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