Archive image from page 6 of Currie's garden annual spring. Currie's garden annual : spring 1931 56th year curriesgardenann19curr Year: 1931 ( NEW HOLLYHOCK DOUBLE 'IMPERATOR' This splendid new Hollyhock, which arrests the attention of the beholder as something entirely origin- al. Rising to a stately height it bears flowers 5j to 6y2 inches across, consisting of wide outer petals ele- gantly frilled and deeply fringed, in the centre of which appears a very double rosette about 2 inches across, the whole suggesting a crested Begonia on a giant scale. The colouring includes various tints of g


Archive image from page 6 of Currie's garden annual spring. Currie's garden annual : spring 1931 56th year curriesgardenann19curr Year: 1931 ( NEW HOLLYHOCK DOUBLE 'IMPERATOR' This splendid new Hollyhock, which arrests the attention of the beholder as something entirely origin- al. Rising to a stately height it bears flowers 5j to 6y2 inches across, consisting of wide outer petals ele- gantly frilled and deeply fringed, in the centre of which appears a very double rosette about 2 inches across, the whole suggesting a crested Begonia on a giant scale. The colouring includes various tints of great beauty, such as cerise salmon with centre of cream reflecting rose; delicate pink with centre of rose flushed yellow; light yellow flushed rose with canary yellow centre; but there are many other charm- ing combinations of different tints. The plant branches from the base, forming a majestic clump and the lat- eral stems can be utilised in vases for decorative pur- poses. This splendid new Hollyhock can be relied on to come quite 80 per cent true from seed. Price Pkt. 25c NEW DOUBLE HOLLYHOCK, 'EXQUISITE' Pkt. Resembles a beautiful, double fringed Petunia. Flow- ers, 4 to Syi inches across, range in color from light rose to deep purple, each petal margined with white delight- fully fringed. Blooms all summer. 2 pkts. 45c $ NEW HOLLYHOCK QUEEN OF SHEBA A beautiful primrose buff with rosy reflection 25 A Hollyhock Double 'Imperator.' NEW PERENNIAL POPPY PAPAVER 'ORIENTALE' 'THE FELTHAM' Some fourteen years ago our growers originated at their Feltham grounds a new departure in Oriental Poppies, and by dint of continual selection have now succeeded in fixing a distinct and valuable strain. It has all or nearly all the various shades of the type—scarlet, orange scarlet, apricot, etc.—but with no black blotches at the base of the petals. The flowers are thus all self-coloured, the difference being comparable with that between the Shirley Poppy and its pro- totype the


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