PRIZES OBTAINED BY THE BEST DAHLIAS IN 1840. 



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NEW KINDS OF 1840.— continued. 



Remarks on the above. — I have affixed an asterisk to twenty 

 flowers in the above list, which are what I would recommend to 

 purchasers who have not grown them. I do not say, however, 

 there are no good flowers but those I have in my list ; for although 

 I have been forced to exclude twenty-eight from my original number 

 of new flowers chosen, for not being placed at all, yet during the 

 season I have seen several of Harrison's, Brown's, Girling's, and 

 other growers' flowers, placed a considerable number of times ; but 

 as they were not of those I first selected, I did not trouble myself 

 about them. Besides, several of the shows had no names in their 

 reports, and of the show at Birmingham, and a few others of im- 

 portance, I have not seen any report at all ; but I trust the above 

 will be found useful, and, if so, it is all I desire. 



[The list of the old-established kinds, which our respected corre- 

 spondent has so carefully compiled from the lists of exhibitions 

 which have come under his notice in magazines, newspapers, &c, 

 forms a general correct estimate of the merits of each kind, and will 

 be a useful assistant to purchasers. The latter list, however, cannot 

 be a guide as to that particular, and we believe our correspondent 

 does not give it with that intention, but to show what has been the 

 result come under his notice. That such a list cannot be a correct 



