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time less profitably to themselves or the community at large. Any prize I can 

 possibly get will not cover the expense of two good dahlia roots. 



Hastings. An Old Subscriber. 



[We admire the beauties of the tulip, and think that the patience and in- 

 dustry of several years with seedlings, entitle the growers to a just remuneration, 

 and which we hope our correspondent and a floral public will continue to sup- 

 port ; but without disparaging either one or the other, we beg to express it as 

 our opinion, that a first-rate seedling dahlia has an equal claim to 10s. 6</. as its 

 price, as a tulip at from 5/. to 1007. The flower is moie striking and orna- 

 mental, the period of blooming, not limited to three or four weeks, but extend- 

 ing usually to five months. If easy of propagation and culture, as our corre- 

 spondent remarks, such circumstances put in the power of the possessor to have 

 so much more of its splendour for his own enjoyment, and afford him the addi- 

 tional pleasure of giving his friend a portion too. It is true the tulip is not 

 cultivated for seveial years before its merits are proved without trouble and 

 expense, nor is the dahlia. It is generally the case that many thousands of 

 seedlings must be grown to obtain perhaps one (and sometimes not that even) 

 first-rate flower ; it must now be grown a second or a third year, in order to 

 prove it, so as to send it out with confidence : if it prove good, theie has been 

 trouble and attention attending it. When first-rate formed dahlias are only 

 grown, the seedlings may be expected to be good; and if our correspondent, 

 or other amateur giowers, pay attention to raising seedlings, it is not only very 

 interesting, but will, when a superior one is obtained, compensate for the outlay 

 of a few pounds requited to possess some of the new kinds offered each suc- 

 cessive season. There is, too, the additional probability ot obtaining something 

 valuable by prizes at exhibitions. To amateurs in general the honour and 

 pleasure is a sufficient remuneration. — Conductor.] 



Bi.ue-fj.owered Hydrangea. — A plant was exhibited at the Lynn Horticul- 

 tural Show, by Mr. Freestone, gardener to C. B. Plestowe, Esq., Wallington 

 Hall, which had eigluy-six fine heads of flowers. We hope soon to give our 

 readers the mode of treatment pursued with it. 



Doube-blossomed Pansy. — I do not know whether a duuble Pansy has yet 

 been produced, but never having seen anything of the sort, and on the possibility 

 that it may be a novelty, I enclose a specimen of one which appealed in my 

 seed-led last year, and frem which cuttings were struck. These have all re- 

 sembled the parent plant, but the flowers are few of them as perfect in shape. 

 The upper petals alone aie duuble in any ot the flowers ; but there are rudiments, 

 more or less developed, in many instances, of the lower petals also If you or 

 any of your coi respondents can suggest any mode of treatment by which this 

 effort to produce a double flower may be unproved, I shall be much obliged b\ a 

 few bints in a luture number of your publication. I hope to save some seed 

 from some of the blossoms, but of course no reliance can be placed on these. 



Fl.ORUS. 



Some of the blossims have the rudiments of a 5th and 6th upper petal. 



[We never saw before, or heard of, a Pansy of the kind sent us. It is quite 

 a novelty, and well worth retaining, It may have originated by cross impreg- 

 nation from the double sweet violet. At all events, if the present vanity does 

 not come quite double in a 1 its parts, it would be well worth trying the experi- 

 ment next s asou, by impregnating its flowers witn the lamia from the Neapo- 

 litan or Ru>sian Violet. We shuh be glad to hear it is tried, and to know the 

 result. — Conductor.] 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 



Annual flower seeds, as Clarkia, Collinsia, Schizanthuseg, Ten- Week Stocks, 

 &c., now sown in pots and kept in a cool frame or greenhouse during winter, 



