68 Foreign jyotices. — England. 



en's Pearl, Unique, Cowpn's Pompous, Rival Sussex, Miss Masters, 

 Purple Perfection, Sir H. Fletcher, Dodd's Mary, Ne Plus Ultra, 

 Rienzi, Charles XII., Eva, Middlesex Rival, Knight's Victory — to 

 Mr. Garrod. 



Wrexham Horticultural Society. — Best twenty-four blooms, viz: — 

 Metropolitan Perfection, Duchess of Portland, Topaz, Purple Per- 

 fection, Duchess of Devonshire, Suffolk Hero, Mr. jSeeld, Russian 

 Gladiator, Annot Lisle, Countess of PenihroUe, Marq\iis of Lothian, 

 Dodd's Mary, Grace Darlin<j, Bhuidina, Advancer, Stuart VVortley, 

 Vitruvius, Beauty of the Plain, Munfjo Park, Sykes's Diana, Cox's 

 JJefiance, Napoleon, Unique, Bontisholl — to Mr. Bernard. 



Birniinghani Grand Dahlia Show. — Best twenty-four hlooms, viz: 

 Hylas, Cambridge Hero, Queen of Sarum, Grace Darling, Blooms- 

 bury, Duchess of Richmond, Regina, H(>|)e, Sykes's Diana, Mar- 

 quis of Lothian, Nicholas Nickleliy, Essex Rival, Sutiblk Hero, 

 Lady Deacon, Horwood's Defiance, Eva, Lady Middleton, Girling's 

 Coiuender, Windmill Hill Rival, President, Ne Plus Ultra, Windsor 

 Rival, Widnall's Jlrgo, Unique — to Mr. Bragg, of Slough. 



It will be seen that we have italicized the names of Widnall's Ar- 

 go, and Cox's Defiance; this has been done to show more readily 

 the number of prizes which each have gained. They were both 

 brought outlast year, and were called the "Rival Yellows," from the 

 fact that both Mr. VVidnall and Mr. Cox exhibited the blootns in 

 considerable numbers, in the fall of 1839, and there was a difference 

 of opinion respecting their merits; each of them undoubtedly fine 

 flowers, but some claiming for Mr. Widnall's the best properties, 

 while others alleged that Defiance was the best and most constant 

 bloomer. So far as we are able to form any judgment, between the 

 number of |)rizes gained by both, and what has been stated in the 

 Gardener's Gazelle and Horlicullural Journal, we are inclined to 

 think that there is little choice between them, and that Argo is full 

 as good a flower to rely u|)on as Defiance. The latter was cultivat- 

 e<l by an amateur, in the vicinity of Boston, last season; it fl(>\^ere(l 

 tolerably freely, but there was not a bloom upon it fit to be shown; 

 a majority of them were single and semi-double. The coming sea- 

 son will set the matter at rest: our o])ini(ni is, that there is no choice. 

 It will also be observed, that among the dahlias uhich gained the 

 premiums, none were more successtVil than Ansel's Unique, Suflolk 

 Hero, Eva, Hope, S|)ringfield Rival, and Dodd's Mary. Anseli's 

 Unique has been |)articularly successful, and has taken the jjrize in 

 the yellow class, when shown in single blooms, over Widnall's Jlrgo. 

 Sufl^blk Hero and Eva are in almost every stan<l, from the class of 

 one hundred, through all the stands of filty, thii ty-six, twenty-fom-, 

 twenty, eighteen, twelve, nine, six, three, to a single bloom. Mac- 

 kenzie's Perfection, a flower we have always grown anil admired, 

 has been in some of the best stands, as will be seen above: no Amer- 

 ican dahlia ever raised, possesses as good a tbrm as Perfection; if 

 the color was better, it would stand almost unequalled. Hedley's 

 Perfection, which our cultivators have not been able to bloom at all, 

 has been placed in a great number of the winning stands; this should 

 encourage amateurs to try it another season. Gaines's Prinuose, 

 which was admired at the dahlia show of the Massachusetts Horti- 



