103 



Foreign JsTotices. 



■England. 



The writer then proceeds to make the following recapitulation:— 

 "It will be seen l>y this table, that S|)arry's Beauty of the Plain has 



been the most successful dahlia of the season, having been shown ia 



winnin;? stands as follows: — 



Conservative, Low's 

 Le Grand Baudine 

 Springfield Rival 

 Yellow Defiance 

 Hope, Neville^s 

 Argo, VVidnall's 

 Maria, Wheeler's 



So that practically speaking, the above have been, this season, the 

 best twelve dahlias grown. The next twelve will be 

 Maid of Bath, Davis's 51 times ; Andrew Hofer, Union 



Beauty of the Plain 

 Pickwick, Cormack's 

 Grace Darling, Dodd's 

 Phenomenon, Whale's 

 Duchess of Richmond, 



Fowler's 

 President of the West 



Nicholas Nickleby, Cor- 

 mack's 49 



Marquis of Lothian, 

 Goodall's 47 



Bloomsbury, Pamplin's 46 



Bloomsbury, Lee's 44 



Suffolk Hero, Girling's 

 Bishop of Winchester 

 Metella, Bigbee's 

 Rouge et Noir, Ansell's 37 

 Lady Middleton,Jefrries' 37 

 Climax, Jeffries' 35 



The most successful new dahlia has been Davis's Maid of Bath, 

 which has been shown in winning stands as follows: — 



Tournament, Cattleugh's 17 times 



Maid of Bath 51 tunes 



Fanny Keynes, Keyne's 30 " 

 Eclipse, VVidnall's 29 " 



Admirable, Sparry's 29 " 

 Burnham Hero,Church's 28 " 

 Scarlet Defiance 28 " 



Highgate Rival, Stein's 17 



Constancy, Keyne's 16 



Haidee, Wildman's 15 



Queen, Widnall's 14 



Bridesmaid, Brown's 13 



"The most fortunate raisers of dahlias, therefore, taking the ag- 

 gregate number of prizes obtained by their flowers in the above 

 thirly-six, will be, 1st, Mr. Whale; 2d, Mr. Cormack; 3d, Mr. Spar- 

 ry; 4th, Mr. Low; 5th, Mr. Widnall; 6th, Mr. Dodd;— the first four 

 having two flowers each, Mr. Widnall three, and Mr. Dodd one. 



"Those who wish to form or arrange their collections, with the 

 view to the possession of constant flowers, have a very good practi- 

 cal guide before them; the above having proved themselves, if not 

 the best in every respect, at least the most available for showing. 



"Some will no doubt another year decline, and their jilaces be sup- 

 plied with the new sorts, many of which have not been so generally 

 grown, nor, of course, exhibited in so great a mniiber of stands. 

 This was the case last year with l^e Grand Baudine. Another con- 

 sideration is, that the season that just past, having been unfavorable 

 for hard eyed flowers. Glory of Plymouth may be mentioned as an 

 examjile, having been shown, perhaps, oftener during the present 

 year than ever since it was raised: and the cause that has operated 

 in fivor of the harder flowers has notoriously tended to make the 

 soft ones thinner than usual, and to show the eye more than might 

 otherwise have been the case. Some discretion may therefore be 

 fairly exercised in this respect when the other properties have been 



