Re: Hollyhock Chater's Double

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This is just what I needed.  Thanks so much Jo Ellen.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press

In a message dated 2/14/2012 8:33:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net writes:

I found  this at Landreth Seeds
Hollyhocks were grown and valued in Elizabethan days  and for the first 
half of the 19th century. A horticulturalist named Chater of  Essex, England 
worked for decades on improvements to the plant and developed  Chater's Double 
in the 1880's, one of the most popular hollyhocks of all time.  In 1873, a 
rust disease which had spread from South America to Australia and  then to 
Europe began to attack hollyhocks. The effects of the disease were so  
devastating that the cultivation of hollyhocks was all but abandoned by the  end 
of the 19th century.  
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:31 PM,  Hamptongar@aol.com wrote:

Chater's  Double

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