THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE. 



DECEMBER, 1841. 



MISCELLANEOUS LNTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foyei2;n Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



English Dahlia Exhibilionx for 1S41. — We presume that we can- 

 not occupy a few pages of our Majinziiie more acceptably to a 

 portion of our readers, particularly to all amateur cultivators of the 

 dahlia, than to jrive some account of the dahlia cxhihiliiuis which 

 have taken place in Enulaiiil the past autumn. The season appears 

 to have heen unusually favoialile for an ahundant liloom, an<l, from 

 the reports which have already reached us, we juil<;e that the exhi- 

 bitions were superior to any thiui; ever hefore seen: this, of course, 

 was to he expected, as the continued i)rojiress which the dahlia \s 

 makin<j towards |)erfection, and the consequent necessity of dis- 

 cardiuir all the oliler and inferior kinds, which do not come up to the 

 standard of heauty, must have rend(,'rcd the shows of the [»ast au- 

 tumn uncommonly brilliant and splendid. Thus, while our own 

 exhibitions have l)eeu ruined by the un|troi)itious weather, so that 

 cultivators have not been able to test the merits of many of their 

 newest and rarest kinds, it will be some jjratification to learn how 

 high the same varieties stand in the estimation of the English flor- 

 ists and amateurs. 



In giving a syno[)sis of the various societies which have held their 

 dahlia shows, we shall follow the same plan whi(di we have ado|)te(l 

 in previous years, that is, to ^ive the names of the flowers which 

 were contained in the stands which gained the highest prize at each 

 of the several societies. It wouUl be a long and laborious task to go 

 over and select out individual kinds which have gained the most 

 prizes, yet, so far as we can do so with certainty, we shall name a 

 few, which api)ear to have been more successful than others, in car- 

 rying off prizes. 



In addition, we shall also name a few of the new seedlings of 

 1840 and 1841, which have been awarded premiums as varieties of 

 superior excellence; but these are fewer than ia previous years, as 

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