HOLLYHOCKS
Hollyhocks may be planted now. Their principal charm lies in their ability to endow the garden with an air of sedate restfulness and peace; and it seems a thousand pities that these stately old world subjects are not nowadays grown as extensively as in former years. Either plant them
or make circular groups of five or six every ten feet or so along the flowering beds. Hollyhocks are certainly gross feeders, but as they make remarkably small surface rooting (they derive most of their sustenance from the lower stratum, by means of their long tap-root) they do not deprive the smaller growing annuals planted in their vicinity of their rightful share of nutriment. Well-grown hollyhocks will attain a height of 11 ft. and may be induced to an even greater height by regular applications of liquid manure. It is, in faft, hardly possible to overfeed these graceful subjects, which remain in flower over a remarkably long period.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 146, 5 June 1936, Page 13
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