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sale. These are divided into different classes : The Show 

 Variety, Fancies, Pompoms, Cactus, Singles and Doubles, 

 Decorative and Reflex, etc., the latter being- the mostjuseful 

 for general garden decoration and should be generally culti- 

 vated, although I much prefer the Cactus shape. Of the 

 latter, I have grown with success the following' named varie- 

 ties in order of merit : 



Miss Violet Morgan, which is a beauty. The base of 

 the florets being* a fawn color, shaded towards the edge to a 

 delicate tone of transparent pink. 



Matchless, a rich deep velvety maroon of true Cactus 

 shape. 



Gloriosa, a deep red shaded scarlet, with large and finely 

 formed flowers. 



Mrs. A. Pearl, creamy white. 



Robert Cannell, majenta, with bluish tint towards the 

 top of the petals. 



Of the Decorative and Reflex the best are Beauty of 

 Wilts, a soft terra cotta. 



Germania, white shaded and tinged with flesh. 



Maid of Kent, intense cherry red, crimson ground, with 

 pure white tips. 



Constance, pure white. 



Kaiserin, sulphur-yellow, outer florets ting-ed with yellow. 



Of the Show varieties I have tried the following- : John 

 Kicking-, the finest clear yellow, of grand form. 



Julia Wyatt, a very larg-e creamy white. 



Agnes, also a fine yellow. 



Win. Jackson, a large rosy purple of the Fancy varieties. 



Prince Henry is a beauty ; lilac with right purple stripes, 

 very large. 



John Forbes, fawn color, stripped maroon. 



Eric Fisher, buff, striped with scarlet. 



Comedian, orange, ground flaked and speckled, crimson 

 and tipped with white. 



The largest Dahlia I have grown was La Colosse, a dull 

 red of good shape, which measured twelve inches across the 



