Plate 3257 

 DAHLIA, FLAMBEAU 



Tt is no\i' some years since we figured one of the nnmerous 

 varieties of this <^n(l autumnal flower; and altliongh the 

 Dahlia lias shared the fate of many a florist's flower, in heing 

 put into the background, because the inexorable demands of 

 tlie " bedder out " could not And a place for it, — yet we feel 

 that it is one so w(>ll deserving of cultivation, tiiat we have 

 had again recourse to Mr. Turner's productions, and have 

 figured this very beautiful variety, which has obtained a certi- 

 ficate of merit from the Floral Committee of tlie Ilo3al Horti- 

 cultural Society, and is likely to be one of the most remarkable 

 flowers of the season. 



The past season has been so very unfavourable for many of 

 the usual occupants of the flower-garden, that more attention 

 has been paid to the Dalilia ; and a writer in a contemporary, 

 while deploring that the Scarlet (jleraniums were a washy pink, 

 Calceolarias completely toned down by the quantity of foliage, 

 Verbenas utterly useless, and Hollyhocks glued to the stakes 

 to \vlii( li they were tied, — said that yet the Dahlia was unin- 

 jured, the pride and ornament of the autumnal garden, and sug- 

 gests a freer use of it for decorative purposes ; to whicli we can 

 add our own testimony, that on paying a visit to The Denbies, 

 near Dorking, tlie well-known seat of Mrs. Cubitt, we were 

 mucli struck with a border of Dahlias which Mr. Drewett had 

 arranged in front of the long line of glass arcades, wliich form 

 so distinguishing a feature of the place. 



It is not, however, as a bedding Dahlia that we bespeak 

 attention to FJamhemi, but as a remarkably fine exhibition 

 fiower, of fine build and good quality ; its colour is a rich 

 deep chrome yellow, heavily edged and tipped with scarlet lake, 



