270 THE FLORIST. 



The coming year indicates no want of attraction. Already a 

 large gathering, to be held in Glasgow, has been organised by our 

 friends in Scotland ; and the meeting of the National, transferred to 

 the conduct of the Ancient Society of York Florists, at their urgent 

 request, to give an additional grace to an extensive horticultural 

 fete, to be held on the 3d and 4th of August, will lose nothing of 

 its importance in their hands, or by the addition to its numbers of 

 the rank and file of Carnation cultivators. 



Derby. E. S. Dodwell. 



NOTES ON THE LEA.DING NEW DAHLIAS SEEN DURING 

 THE PAST SEASON BY MR. JOHN EDWARDS. 



I MAKE no apology for submitting the following memorandums on 

 the Seedling Dahlias seen during the past season. How these may 

 suit your own views, I can in no way judge ; suffice it thai they are 

 penned in all integrity, and further with a wish of relieving yourself 

 of the responsibility consequent upon speaking out in relation of 

 your own property. I shall be delighted to find your own foot-notes, 

 nor wince, however severe the critique may be. 



Amazon (Holmes). White, deeply edged and tipped with car- 

 mine-lake ; showy, novel, and constant. 



Annie Neville (Keynes). Blush tipped purple; petals broad yet 

 compact. 



Bob (Drummond). Scarlet; deep, full, and well-arranged ; ex- 

 tensively and somewhat successfully shewn. 



Brilliant (Rawlings). Scarlet; petals broad yet smooth; full 

 size ; grown too strong. 



Claudia (Lochner). Fancy ; dark purple with white tips ; large 

 and showy. 



Duchess of Kent (Knight). Fancy ; pale yellow with white tips ; 

 large and symmetrical. 



Grand Duke (Turner). Bluish lilac ; large yet full ; shewn some- 

 what coarse ; likely to be a first-rate flower when grown near the 

 metropolis or adjacent to large towns. 



Kate (Burbury). Blush, slightly tipped with purple ; of fair out- 

 line and with elevated centre, which is inclined to be difficult of 

 getting in shewable form. 



Lilac King (Rawlings). Of fine form and medium size ; very 

 desirable. 



Lord Byron (Pope). Salmon ; medium-sized flower ; of good 

 outline ; wanting centre and doubleness. 



Lord Nelson (Bragg). Salmon-bufl^; good, early; but fails to 

 maintain its compactness as the season advances. 



Miss Caroline (Brittle). Blush-white, slightly tipped ; fine form, 

 with extra full and high centre : by far better than Marchioness, 

 Cornwallis, although somewhat similar. I know it to be constant. 

 Who can so say ot the Marchioness ? 



