perfect smoothness, but also in its roots, which have fangs 
slender and uniform in size, instead of being partly large and 
succulent and partly resembling fibres. 
There can be little doubt that this and D. scapigera will 
give birth to quite a new race of garden Dahlias, in which 
dwarfness, so much to be desired, will not be an accidental 
deviation from a natural tendency to acquire a lofty stature, 
but will be a fixed habit, which may possibly and indeed pro- 
bably increase till varieties shall have been secured whose 
height when in full flower will not exceed a foot. 
In its present state this pretty plant grows about three 
feet high, and requires the same management as the common 
Dahlia. .It flowers from the end of July until destroyed by 
the frost in autumn. 
It answers remarkably well if treated as a half-hardy 
annual, which is by far the easiest and best way to grow it, 
as by saving the seed every season there is no necessity for 
preserving the old roots, which are like those of the common 
Dahlia, but much slenderer. 
