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cultural Society, last fall, does not apjiear to have gainer] but very 

 few prizes. Rienzi, Marquis of Lothian, Duchess of Richmond, Sir 

 H. Fletcher, Bhindina, R<isetta, Topaz, Victory, have been very 

 successful flowers, and cuhivators sliouid not give up a great many 

 of the ohl ones for the 7ieiv ones, which are so highly praised, but 

 two thirds of which prove worthless. A great numl)er of the dah- 

 lias which were sold out in England, last spring, at £10 and £5 for 

 dry roots, and 10s. 6d. and 7s. Gd. for pot plants, will be thrown 

 wholly out of cultivation another season. It is folly for amateurs 

 who grow only forty or fifty plants, to discard good oUI ones, to make 

 room for varieties which they know nothing of, only from those wiio 

 are interested in selling the plants. 



Among the new varieties brought out last spring, which ap[)ear to 

 have successfully competed for prizes, are the following: — Lee's 

 Bloomsburv, Widnall's Argo, Cox's Defiance, Beauty of the Plain, 

 Pickwick, "Danecroft Rival, President of the West, Whale's Phe- 

 nomenon, Bishop of Winchester, Windsor Rival, Rouge et Noir, 

 Countess of Pembroke, Dodd's Grace Darling, Windmill Hill Rival, 

 Nicholas Nickleby, Girling's Contender, Miss Johnson, Bree's Rosa, 

 Metella, &c. These, we believe, can be relied upon as first rate 

 flowers. Probably not a half a dozen others are equal to the older 

 varieties. 



A large number of varieties are advertised to be let out in the 

 spring, and many of them at high prices for dry roots. A few have 

 been successful in gaining prizes as seedlings, but a majority of them 

 have no other reconnnendation than that of the grower. Several of 

 the provincial societies have refused to award prizes to seedlings, 

 nnless they possessed |)ro|)erties nmch nuperior to the old sorts: and 

 if all the societies should |)ursue the same course, and the jiublic 

 purchase only such as have been successful flowers, cultivators would 

 not lie subjected to the disappointments which so often take jilace. 

 The names of some of the new varieties, now for the first time 

 sold ont, in dry roots, are as follows, with the prices annexerl: — Cox's 

 Revenge, brinistone yellow, £10; Maid of Bath, white, tipped with 

 purple, £10; Beauty of the yilla<:e, maroon, £10; Burnham He- 

 ro, dark crimson, £10 ; Widnall's Eclijise, scarlet, £lO; Scar- 

 let le Grand, scarlet, £0; Wheeler's Maria, rose, £4; Walters's 

 Uui(iue, white, with lavender edge, £5; Tyler's Speedwell, prim- 

 rose, £10; together with many others at £3, £2, &c. Plants deliv- 

 ered in May will be 15s. to 10s. 6d. each. 



A writer in the same paper we have been quoting from, has given 

 a list of Jiflij-three of the very best dahlias, cultivated in England 

 last year, the names of which are as follows: — 



*Duchess of Richmond, *Sprinirfit'ld Rival, Duke of Wellington, 

 Beauty of the Plain, *Lewisham Ilival, *Hope, *Glory of Plymouth, 

 E::y|iiian Kinir. Hylas, *Royal Siandaid, iiobert Burt, Le Grand 

 Bainliue, Nit-holas Nii-kleby,'Amato, Cox's Defiance, Ovid, "^Knight's 

 Victory, *Ne Plus Ultra', Sussex Rival, Metella, Conservaiive, 

 Bloomsbury, Advancer, Windsor Rival, Queen of England, Grace 

 Darling, Maria, *Rienzi, President of the West, *Suffi)lk Hero, 

 *Con(iuctor, *Uni(iue, Widnall's Argo, *Piu-ple Perfection, Climax, 

 Diomede, Ruby Sujjerb, *Contender, Miss Johnson, Sir Fred. John- 



