Daffodil 



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Dahlia 



For Borders or Pots :- 



Barrii conspicuus. 



Emperor. 



Empress. 



Golden Spur. 



Gwyther. 



Horsefieldii. 



John Bain. 



Marchioness of Lome. 



Master at Arms ( . 



274). 

 Mrs. Backhouse. 



Mrs. J. B. M. Camm 



j>. 275). 

 nanus. 

 Palmerston. 

 poeticus oruatus. 

 poeticus, double. 

 P. R. Barr. 

 Queen Bess. 

 Sir Watkin. 

 telamouius plenus. 

 \V. P. Milner. 



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DAHLIA. 



Description. The Dahlia (ord. Compositse) is 

 one of those indispensable flowers which need no 

 commendation, and which seem constantly to 

 grow in favour. Annually improvements are being 

 made in it, and the changes in form and advances 

 in colour have done much to maintain its popu- 

 larity. At present the Cactus Dahlias are the 

 most admired, but the other sections have all 

 merits of their own. The large, ball-shaped Show 

 and Fancy flowers are very effective, if rather stiff- 



Plicto: Cassell & Company, Ltd. 



DAHLIA Mus. J. J. CROWE, A BEAUTIFUL YELLOW CACTUS VARIETY (gee ji. 2Y8). 



For Naturalising in Grass : 



abscissus. 



biflorus. 



Burbidgei. 



Butter and Eggs, double. 



Cynosure. 



Duchess of Brabant. 



Golden Mary. 



Golden Spur. 



Henry Irving. 



Johnston! Queen of Spain. 



For Hack Gardens : 



Corbularia in variety. 

 cyclamineus. 



juucifolius. 



lobularis. 



Macleaii. 



moschatus. 

 obvallaris. 

 odorus rugulosus. 

 pallidus priecox. 

 poeticus. 

 double, 

 princeps. 

 rugilobus. 

 telamouius plenus. 



nnuiraus. 

 minor, 

 moschatus. 

 Banna. 



triandrus albus. 



looking, in the garden, and the little Pompons are 

 much valued for their profusion of bloom, and 

 for cutting. The parents of our modern Dahlias 

 are believed to have been coccinea, Merckii, and 

 variabilis. The Cactus Dahlias are descendants 

 of Yuarezii. 



Propagation. Named varieties of Dahlias are 

 generally propagated by cuttings produced from 

 the tubers, which are placed in bottom heat from 

 January onwards, under glass, to start them into 

 growth. The tubers should just be covered with 

 soil, but not the crowns, and when the growths 

 have made two joints they are taken off below the 

 lower one and rooted in heat in small pots filled 

 with light soil, singly. They are then grown on 



Dahlia (of Tkunbery, see Trickoclailus). 



