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OF HORTICULTURE. 
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Dahlia—continued. i 
(see Fig. 609, 1); WHITE QUEEN, white, 
WHITE STAR, white, slightly shaded rose, 
CULLINGFORD, rich yellow, 
Cactus and Semi-Cactus Varieties, of which D. Juarezii is 
the type. ANNIE HARVEY, scarlet-crimson, small flowers, very 
effective, new; COCHINEAL, rich crimson, very fine for cutting, 
new ; CONSTANCE, pure white, free-flowering, most useful ; FIRE 
KixG (Glare of the Garden), dazzling scarlet, very floriferous ; 
PARROT, intense orange-scarlet, small, good for cut flowers, 
ed rose, very free ; 
e form; WILLIAM 
FIG. 610. SINGLE DAHLIAS (1) BEACON AND (2) UTILITY—VARIETIES ILLUSTRATING FLOWERS SLIGHTLY REFLEXED. 
DAIS (from dais, a torch; in allusion to the form of 
the inflorescence), ORD. Thymelacee. A genus contain- 
ing four species of trees and shrubs, three natives of 
Madagascar, and one from the Cape of Good Hope. The 
only one in cultivation is D. cotinifolia, an interesting 
deciduous shrub. It thrives in a mixture 
of peat and loam. Increased by cuttings, made of half- 
ripened shoots, or of the roots, in April, placed in sand, 
under a bell glass, in heat. 
Dais—continued. 
D. cotinifolia (Cotinus-leaved) /l. pinkish, in umbellate in- 
volucrated heads. June. l. obovate, obtuse. А. lOft. Cape of 
Good Hope, 1776. The bark of this yields the strongest fibre 
known to the natives of Southern Africa. 
DAISY. See Bellis. 
DALBERGIA (named after Nicholas Dalberg, a 
Swedish botanist, born 1730, died 1820). Orv. Legumi- 
юте sixty species of stove 
shrubs, natives of tropical 
‚ (two are Australian). 
te, in dichotomous cymes 
nicles, axillary or terminal 
ate (rarely unifoliolate). They 
grow freely in a mixture of fibry peat and turfy loam, to 
which map MN a small portion of sand. Cutti 
of firm young shoots will root in March, if placed in 
nose. А genus containing ! 
evergreen trees or climbing 
regions in Asia, Africa, and . 
Flowers violaceous-purple, or ж 
or in irregular sub-eymose 
Leaves alternate, impari-pi 
