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the best seedling of the year. In colour it is a vivid orange, as bright 

 as jMorning Star, which it far surpasses in quahty. The petals are 

 smooth, well formed, and admirably arranged : it is perfect in outline, 

 has a compact centre, a trifle depressed, with n.oderate substance and 

 sufficient depth ; size medium. 



2. Bessie (Turner). — A second year's probation has not lowered this 

 variety in the public estimation. It has been better " done" than last 

 season, and any doubts tliat might then have existed as to its depth 

 have been entirely dissipated. It is the best yellow we yet possess. 



3. Lord Fahnerston (G. Holmes). — A noble sort, fit to take its 

 position in a back row with Pre-eminent. Colour rich dark scarlet, 

 full, deep, and symmetrical ; petal of good shape, well expanded, but 

 not too open ; centre compact, close, and moderately well elevated. The 

 general style of the Hower is indicative of constancy, and it will prove, 

 in all likelihood, easy to grow, and is consequently a desirable variety 

 for town cultivation. 



4. Lollipop (G. Holmes). — Colour peculiar, and rather difficult to 

 define, — say salmon buff as an approach. This is an attractive sort, 

 and will be extremely popular. Its form is excellent, but its high centre 

 is accompanied by — and in some degree dependent on — the drawback 

 of reflexed petals ; one or two specimens have, however, been exhibited 

 in which the petals were beautifully cupped ; in this condition it is 

 quite a model ; size and substance moderate. 



5. Mrs. Wheeler (Wheeler). — A very compact kind, rather below 

 the medium size, reminding us in form and colour both of Sir Charles 

 Napier and Espartero, but, at its best, superior to either ; general form 

 and centre good ; petals rather small, but not quilly : altogether a very 

 pretty and desirable variety. 



6. Duchess of WelUnuton (Turner). — Colour more novel than pretty ; 

 a flower of good general form, with high centre and great depth, average 

 substance, and full medium size : petal scarcely so smooth as could be 

 desired. The " setting up" of this variety will demand the exercise of 

 some little judgment, as it will not harmonize well witli several of the 

 prevailing colours. On this account a corner will, perhaps, be its most 

 appropriate locality 



7. Miss Bardett Coutls (Turner.) — Another novelty in respect of 

 colour — shaded fawn ; a very teUirig flower, with good substance, and 

 neat, well cupped petals : size, form and centre, medium. It will be 

 most prized by those who look to general effect, rather than to the nicer 

 and more critical points of excellence. 



8. Yellow Beauty ( I urner.) — This kind presents a very compact 

 and perfect centre ; and in this one particular it surpasses Bessie : it 

 lacks, however, the dei)th and the general fir.o form and quality of that 

 variety. We must have the centre of Yellow Beauty engrafted on a 

 aood bloom of Bessie before we can boast of that great desideratum — 

 a perfect yellow Dahlia. 



9. Grand Saltan (Turner.) — Dark maroon, approaching to black, 

 but retaining that tinge of crimson which constitutes its peculiar rich- 

 ness. If the severe critic objects that this variety exhibits no marked 

 excellence in any one point, he must, in candour, admit it to be equally 



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