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liiViaccce. 

 \jil'iiiin fcs/dceinn, which we noticed in onr last volume, 

 (IX. p. 1 85.) is figured in Pa.r. Mng- BoL^ Vol. X. p. 22i, 

 where a highly finished drawing is given. In addition to 

 what is stated in onr previous notice, we learn the following 

 in relation to the treatment of the species: — "Pioperly 

 managed they arc amone the noblest flowers we y-ossess. 

 Yet good specimens are far from frequent. The principal 

 thing that they require is rich, but light soil; such as an 

 open, fresh loam, with a proportion of rotten dung incorpo- 

 rated. The latter both enriches the other earth, and serves 

 to keep it light. They should not be grown more than one 

 or two years in the same soil. In nniltiplying this, and the 

 rest of the species, a single scale, taken from the bull :s, will 

 sufiice to produce a young plant; and some clever propaga- 

 tors will even make four or five plants of each scale, by 

 slitthig it into as many pieces. {Pax. Mag. Bot.. rVov.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



RemarTxS on new Dnhlxaa. — The Dahlias enumerated by " A Subscriber" 

 are some of the most uncertain bloomers in cultivation ; and if he suc- 

 ceede.l with them in the year 184?, the chances were that he failed in the 

 followinir season. Sussex Rival I should not advise him to retain in a 

 limited collection; it is seldom good, and is too small. Fanny Keynes 

 never was, even at the best, more than a second-rate flower; it is of a 

 com non color, and totally destitute of style or character. Ruby was a 

 good flower in its time, but is quite gone by ; it is too much quilled for 

 the present d^y ; besides, it is thin and wai ting in color. Egyptian King 

 is a good flower when in perfection, but is very uncertain. Scailet Defi- 

 ance never was trood. altiiough it sometimes f)romises well early in the 

 season; later, it becomes quilled, flat, and deeply-serrated on tlic edge of 

 the petal. I noticed, during the year 184?, that every Dahlia, of which 

 the color had any tendency to scarlet, was deeply notched — indf ed to so 

 great an extent, as to give the petal the appearance of a saw ; the inden- 

 tures were, in some instances, more than a quarter of an inch derp. This 

 di 1 not happen to dahlias of any other color than red or scarlet : nor did 

 it ao-ain occur during the season just past, even in the flowers in which it 



