OBSERVATIONS ON THE DAHTJA. 27 



ARTICLE III. 



OBSERVATIONS UPON THE DAHLIA. 

 No. II. 



BY A STAR IN THE EAST. 



(Continued from page 16.) 



Miss Hortense, Yellow distinctly tipped with white, very remark- 

 able, but not fit for show. 



Miss Cook, Cupped red, rather too small for show, 



Harding's Metropolitan White, is not a cupped flower, but mo- 

 derately good, and ought to be grown. 



Kington's Incomparable White, which, although very pure in 

 colour and cupped, the flower not sufficiently full. 



K. Maid o/Judah, a pretty good flower? always well up in the 

 centre. 



K. Victorious, very poor and starry. 



K. Magnet, only moderate at its best 



K. Mahbran, similar to the last. 



K. Nimrod, fine cupped show flower, best of its class, and also 

 of Kington's seedlings. 



Forsyth's Festal Bride, uncertain, but sometimes pretty good. 



Rhoda, small, but pretty flower. 



Countess of Longford, very pretty laced purple on a yellow 

 ground, requires to be grown in a rich soil. 



Agnes Graham, small and paltry. 



Addison or Loulhianum, a splendid cupped show flower, richly 

 shaded, and indispensibly necessary to every collection. 



Seale's Cleopatra, white, a little pointed, but very good. 



Null* Secundus, a dazzling scarlet and good show flower. 



Dod's Mary Queen of Scots, sometimes a hard eye, occasionally 

 a good show flower, hut not, however, equal to Dod's Mary. 

 Young's Robert Buist, a hold re-flexed show flower. 



Harding's Duchess of Montrose, rather too flat, petals sometimes 

 notched, and colour not decided, hut notwithstanding these im- 

 perfections, it is a good show flower. 



Stanford's Rival Scarlet, a good show flower. 



