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DAHLIA 



la Tete d' Or, Evadne, Mrs. E. C. Monroe, Iridescent, 

 Wilhelm Miller, Black Beauty, Grand Duke Alexis, 

 Nymphsea, Oriental, Orange Scarlet. 



Show : Storm King, A. D. Livoni, Model of Perfec- 

 tion, Willie Garrett, Hone-st John, Ernest Krebig, 

 Psyche, Bird of Passage, Oakfleld, Arabella, La Prance, 

 Princess Bonnie, 

 Queen of Yel- 



clad, Carol, Fairy 

 Queen, Catherine, 

 Sunshine, Little 



ganta. Elfin, Miss 

 Lou Kramer, Le 

 Petit Jean, Bes- 

 .sie, Tom and 

 Teddy. 



Singles are val- 

 uable for this pur- 

 pose, especially 

 St. George, Ami 

 Barrillet, Ada, 

 John Downie, 

 Evelyn, Isaac Pit- 



ited 



Lady, 



For Borders 

 and Medges. — No 

 special list of va- 

 rieties cau be re- 

 668. Dahlia Merckii. commended for 



See the Botauieal Magazine, 1841. this purpose, as 



plate 3878. '' *^ largely a 



matter oi taste. 

 Othek Purposes. — Dahlias are used for many other 

 purposes, and are grown in many other forms with 

 pleasing effect. Some train the tall varieties on trel- 

 lises in espalier form; many train them to tall supports, 

 while others spread them out on the ground and peg 

 them fast, to give the appearance of a bed of large- 

 flowering pigmies. The latter form is quite unique and 

 satisfactory, as plants of some of the varieties grow un- 

 usually well and bloom profusely. The Fancy Dahlia 

 Uncertainty and Cactus Dahlia Dellcata are typical 

 varieties that seem to do better in this form than any 

 other. 



Enemies. — Dahlias are generally remarkably free from 

 enemies, but in some localities the tarnished plant bug 

 (Lt/gus pratensis) makes success impossible, as there 

 practical remedy. This bug is chiefly responsible 



for the blasted buds and 



669. Bellis perennis. 



ded flowers. It pierces 

 the young buds, shoots, and 

 sucks the sap. The shoots 

 curl over, blacken, check the 

 growth of the plant, and 

 new side shoots are stimu- 

 which often meet the 

 same fate. Consult Bulletin 

 47, Mo. Esp. Sta. 



Lawrence K. Peacock. 



recommended 

 d Higgins : 

 <r (Ifiifrril Purposes.— 

 I ■ I>a\\ Ti. Robin Adair, 

 1 "i' Ailiriis, Madam 

 /.nlr-. .Madge Wild- 

 thv, Miss Miller, A. 

 I). Livoni, Mary D. 

 " Halleck, Snow, Bird 

 of Passage. Cham- 

 pion RoUo, Dr. J. P. 

 Kirtland. 



Fancy .■ Rev C. 

 W. Bolton, Young 

 America, Mrs. J. 



DAIS 



Downie, Rev. J. B. McCamm, John Forbes, Mrs. Brown- 

 ing, Keystone, Frank Smith. 



Pompon: Burning Coal, Eurydice, Daybreak, Phoebe, 

 Lillian, Purity, Sunbeam, Little Bessie, Brunette, Fash- 

 ion, .Snowclad, Virginale, Rosalie, Hedwig Polwig, Cath- 

 erine, Guiding Star, Aillet's Imperial, Alewine, Vivid. 



Decorative : Grand Duke Alexis, Wm. Agnew, Juno, 

 Bowery Girl, Josephine, Lyndhurst, Perle de la Tete 

 d'Or. 



Cactus: Matchless, Bertha Mawley, Mrs. Bennett, 

 Harmony, Edelcactus. 



For Exhibition. — Show: Miss Cannell, Wm. Powell, 

 Duchess of York, Harrison Weir, John Walker, R. T. 

 Rawlings, Kaiser Wilhelm, Muriel, Pearl, Alice Emily, 

 James Vick, Emily Edwards, A. D. Livoni, Wm. Paw- 

 cett, James Service, Madge Wildfire, Mrs. Langtry, 

 Hector, John Lamont, J. T. Saltmarsh. 



Fancy: S. Mortimer, Dorothv, Sunset, Young Amer- 

 ica, Champion R..11,,, Cn.ial Grant, Mrs. J. Downie, 

 Lottie Eekfor.l, S;,!;,,,,:,,!.!. r, Prince H.-nry. Matthew 

 Campbell, Duchrss .,i AII^■tIl\ . 

 Rev. J. B. .M.rannn, .1. ' 

 Forbes, Frank Smith, K 



Cactus : Matchless, Ernest 

 Glasse, Mrs. Bennett, John 

 Welch, Harmony, Gloriosa, 

 Mary Hillier, Beatrice, 

 Prince of Orange, Mrs. A. 

 Peart, Starfish, Green's Gem, 

 John Roach. 



Decorative : May Pictor, 

 Wm. Agnew, Oban, Juno, 

 Lancelot, Amphion, Bowery 

 Girl, White Swan, Marchioness 

 of Bute, Perle delaTeted'Or, 

 Rayon d'Or, Wilhelm Miller. 



Pompon: Burning Coal, Eu- 

 rydice , Phoebe, Eleganta, Min- 

 nie, Lillian, Hilda Searl, Hen- 

 rietta, Mars, Purity, Ernest, 

 Sunbeam, Mattie Mourey, 

 Snowclad, Virginale, Rosalie, 

 lolanthe, Hedwig Polwig, Lit- 

 tle Hermon, Golden Gem, 

 Raphael, Alewine, Aillet's Im- 

 perial. 



For Cut-flowers.- Cactus : 

 Beatrice, Ernest Glasse, John 

 Roach, Harmony, Matchless, 

 Edelcactus, Starfish, Green's 

 Gem. 



Decoranve: Grand Duke 

 Alexis, C. W. Bruton, Alpha, 

 Wm. Agnew, Nymphsea, Jose- 

 phine, White Swan, Lynd- 

 hur.st. Bowery Girl, Oban, 

 Perle de la Tete d'Or, Rayon 

 d'Or, Bennett Goldney. 



Pompon : Alewine, Purity, 

 Eurydice, Sunbeam, Rosalie, 

 Guiding Star, Phoebe, lolan- 

 the, Minnie, Lillian, Golden 



DAIS (Greek, pine torch ; 

 application not obvious ) . 

 ThymelceAcea. This genus 

 contains a tree that yields a 

 strong fiber, and is also rarely 

 cult, for ornament, especially 

 in Fla. and S. Calif., and pos- 

 sibly in one or two northern 

 conservatories. It has* Ivs. 

 resembling the Smoke Tree, 

 Ehus Cotinus.and bears long- 

 stalked umbel-like heads of 

 starry pink fls., with floral 670. Ox-Eye Daisy or White 

 parts in 5's. The genus has Weed-Chrysanthemum 

 half a dozen species, all from Leucanthemum (X H). 



