174 FURTHER REMARKS ON THE YELLOW RIVAL DAHLIAS. 



trive to have a good stock of, well established in pots. Nothing 

 more beautiful than the above arrangement can be well imagined 

 when done with neatness; and the season for planting such beds 

 having now arrived, it is hoped that these remarks may prove 

 acceptable. 



ARTICLE IV. 



FURTHER REMARKS ON THE YELLOW RIVAL DAHLIAS. 



1SY MR. SHARPE, GARDENER TO C. MAIN WARING, ESQ., COLEBY HALL, NEAR LINCOLN. 



I see by your last Number we are likely to have the paper war 

 continued respecting the Yellow Dahlias. Now, as no good can arise 

 from such a warfare, I think the best way would be to bring them 

 together the following show-season as often as possible, and let them 

 have a fair stand-up fight, (as Mr. "Woodmansey expresses himself,) 

 for according to the victories they gain should purchasers be guided 

 in their purchases next spring, and not trust merely to newspaper 

 or catalogue statements. I would advise all who may possess either 

 of the three rivals to challenge either one or both the other two for 

 a trifling sum, (if grown in the same neighbourhood, whether they 

 otherwise exhibit or not,) that their merits may be known. We never 

 grow for showing, (except the show they make in our grounds;) but 

 as we have Argo, and I intend going to the Grantham exhibition, I 

 will show either one or three blooms against either Defiance or Hen- 

 rietta, for ten or twenty shillings, against any grower in the county, 

 and shall immediately take steps to make known my wish to bring 

 the rivals together. Should you think these remarks useful, and I 

 think if acted upon they would be, they are at your service. Every 

 Dahlia grower will feel obliged to Mr. Woodmansey for his account 

 of the winning flowers ; it will be the best guide for the next season 

 the purchasers ever had, if he will give it us faithfully, as he has 

 promised. 



Your correspondent at Wellingborough (s-ee June number, p. 132) 

 had better immediately put in his paring spade and burn his turf, as 

 he will find the ashes to suit his Pansies remarkably well, and almost 

 every other plant that delights in a cool soil, and save him six or nine 

 months, beside his soil being in better condition than if his turf was 

 allowed to decompose in a heap or otherwise. 



