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Dahlia continued. 



(see Fig. 609, 1) ; WHITE QUEEN, white, tinged rose, very free ; 

 WHITE STAR, white, slightly shaded rose, fine form ; WILLIAM 

 CULLINGFORD, rich yellow. 



Cactus and Semi-Cactus Varieties, of which D. Juaretii is 

 the type. ANNIE HARVEV, scarlet-crimson, small flowers, very 

 effective, new ; COCHINEAL, rich crimson, very fine for cutting, 

 new ; CONSTANCE, pure white, free-flowering, most useful ; FIRE 

 KING (Glare of the Garden), dazzling scarlet, very floriferous ; 

 PiRROT, intense orange-scarlet, small, good for cut flowers. 



Dais continued. 



D. eotinifolla (Cotinus-IeavedX ft. pinkish, in umbellate in- 

 volucrated heads. June. I. obovate, obtuse. A. 10ft. Cape of 

 Good Hope, 1776. The bark of this yields the strongest fibre 

 known to the natives of Southern Africa. 



DAISY. See Bellis. 



DALBEROIA (named after Nicholas Dalberg, a 

 Swedish botanist, born 1730, died 1820). OBD. Legumi- 



FIG. 610. SINGLE DAHLIAS (1) BEACON AND (2) UTILITY VARIETIES ILLUSTRATING FLOWERS SLIGHTLY RF.FLEXED. 



DAIS (from dais, a torch; in allusion to the form of 

 the inflorescence). ORD. ThymelceacecE. A genus contain- 

 ing four species of trees and shrubs, three natives of 

 Madagascar, and one from the Cape of Good Hope. The 

 only one in cultivation is D. cotinifolia, an interesting 

 greenhouse deciduous shrub. It thrives in a mixture 

 of peat and loam. Increased by cuttings, made of half- 

 ripened shoots, or of the roots, in April, placed in sand, 

 under a bell glass, in heat. 



noses. A genus containing above sixty species of stoye 

 evergreen trees or climbing shrubs, natives of tropical 

 regions in Asia, Africa, and America (two are Australian). 

 Flowers violaceous-purple, or white, in dichotomons cymes 

 or in irregular sub-cymose panicles, axillary or terminal. 

 Leaves alternate, impari-pinnate (rarely unifoliolate). They 

 grow freely in a mixture of fibry peat and turfy loam, to 

 which may be added a small portion of sand. Cuttings 

 of firm young shoots will root in March, if placed in sand, 



