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Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Dahlias and Dahlia Exhibitions of 1845. — Agreeably to our^ usual plan 

 for some years, of giving a summary of the dahlia culture at the close of 

 each season, we now add such information as we have been enabled to 

 glean from the periodicals of the day. The Gardener^s Gazette, which in 

 years past has been the organ of the fancy, has not reached us, and there 

 is no other periodical which devotes the same care to the publication of the 

 reports of exhibitions. In the dahlia season of 1844, we had the satisfac- 

 tion of being present at one of the greatest shows held that year, and we 

 gave our account of the new dahlias, last year, from our own notes, re- 

 corded on the spot. We now gather our information from the Gardener'' s 

 Chronicle, but we have the pleasure of adding thereto, the notes of an ama- 

 teur friend, to whom we are indebted, which will keep the fancier well 

 informed in respect to every new variety. 



Only the reports of four or five societies of any note have been published, 

 but among them is that of the South London Floricultural Society, promi- 

 nent for its encouragement of the dahlia, 



Ipswich HorticiiUural Society. — For the best 12 dahlias, the premium was 

 awarded to Mr. Girling for the following kinds : — M. Regnon, Cleopatra, 

 Beeswing, Mrs. Shelly, Standard of Perfection, Antler, Bermonsdy Bee, 

 Gloria Mundi, Capt. Warner, Bridesmaid, Admiral Stopford and Princess 

 Royal. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society. — For the best 24 dahlias the premium 

 was awarded to Messrs. Dickson & Sons, viz : — Bermonsdy Bee, Antler, 

 President of the West, Gloria Mundi, Nonpareil, Standard of Perfection, 

 Rouge et Noir, Princess Royal, Antagonist, Paul Pry, Dazzle, Beeswing, 

 Prince of Waterloo, Admiral Stopford, Lady Harland, Marquis of Lans- 

 downe, Mrs. Shelly, Sir Robert Sale, Bathonia and Burnham Hero. 



York Horticultural Society. — For the best 24 dahlias, the premium was 

 awarded to Mr. Backhouse, viz : — Standard of Perfection, Mrs. Shelly, 

 Prince Albert, Albion, Beeswing, Lord Howden, Princess Royal, Essex 

 Primrose, Beauty of Sussex, Backhouse's Ebor, Indispensable, Cleopatra, 

 Alice Hawthorn, Vivid, Perpetual Grand, Marquis of Lansdowne, Maria, 

 Yellow Defiance, Blue Bonnett, Antler, Antagonist, Aurantia, Consola- 

 tion, and Bermonsdy Bee. 



Royal South London Floricultural Society. — We give the whole report 

 upon the Seedlings as well as the first prize for the best 24 dahlias in the 

 Nurseryman's Class, which was awarded to Mr. Turner, viz. : — Perpetual 

 Grand, Princess Royal, Beauty of Sussex, Le Grand Baudine, Beeswing, 

 Alice Hawthorn, Competitor, Admiral Stopford, Indispensable, Beauty of 

 the Plain, Springfield Rival, Aurantia, Gloria Mundi, Ophir, President, 

 Cleopatra, Raphael, Pickwick, Standard of Perfection, Essex Triumph, 

 Mrs. Shelly, Bermonsdy Bee, Mrs. J. Richardson, and Nonpareil. 

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