The Hollyhock.
A Garden Corner.
r THE HOLLYHOCK, Althea ■*- rosea, is one of the most conspicuous flowering plants of the present time, and by reason of its height and brightness, well deserving of the prominence given it. But more attention might be given the superior claims of the double-flowered. The deadly attacks of the Hollyhock rust, Pirccinea malvasearum, is mainly responsible for this, because, once a plant is attacked, it seldom survives, and established plants are even more liable to the rust than are young plants. Therefore, seedlings give better results, and as the best strains of doubles are not always sown, we get a heavy preponderance of singles. Hollyhocks are perennials, flowering the second season, although there is a race of so-called annual Hollyhocks which, if sown early under glass, will flower the same season. As the rust attacks the older leaves first, by the end of autumn there is little left to tide the plant over winter. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 14
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