12 OBSERVATIONS ON THE DAHLIA. 



Bedfordii, double dark red, very good. 



Conchiflora, double rose. 



Viorneani, double rose white spot or stripe. 

 dilecta, double blood red, very fine. 



Dorsetii, very double dark red, white spot or stripe, fine. 

 fulgida, semi double dark red. 

 Elphinstonii , very double dark red, fine 

 amabilis, single white. 



CUntonia, double red and white spot or stripe, fine. 

 Simsii, single dark red. 

 minnta semi double, dark rose, small flower. 

 elegans, Chandler's double rose, very good. 

 Dianthiflora semi double red small white spots. 

 Dianthiflora earned, semi double, flesh coloured. 

 rid>ro punctata, single red spotted, 

 AcubaefoRa, semi double light red. 



( To be continued.) 



ARTICLE V. 



OBSERVATIONS UPON THE DAHLIA. 



No. II. 



BY A STAR IN THE EAST. 



My former communication having met with your approval by an 

 insertion in the Cabinet, I again address you with observations 

 No. 2, and am sorry I have not ere this had an opportunity to 

 do so ; during the interval another Dahlia season has terminated, 

 and the character of the different kinds has been proved, and 

 founded on the grower's own experience. The past season, has 

 in general, I have the satisfaction to say, produced a marked 

 improvement in our collections by the addition of many very su- 

 perior flowers ; and although numerous has been the deceptions 

 practised upon the purchasers, by having false recommendations 

 of (he qualities of the sorts, I doubt of its being repeated as those 

 persons who have had a little experience in the matter, will be 

 more wary in future. 



