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with their numerous flowers, prolong the beauty of 

 the borders, until the frost sets in. The finest col- 

 lection of Georginas, as well as Pelargoniums, that 

 I have seen in Bedfordshire, all cultivated in the 

 highest state of perfection, is, unquestionably, in the 

 Garden of Henry Seymour, Esq. at Woburn. It 

 formerly abounded in numerous species of rare Cape 

 and Tropical plants, which were cultivated by the 

 late Honourable Mrs. Seymour, whose scientific 

 knowledge, Mr. Sweet has commemorated in the 

 Genus Seymouria. The Garden laid out by this 

 Lady, is the most admirable little design of the kind 

 that I have ever seen ; the disposition of the various 

 flower beds, and different pieces of rock-work, con- 

 nected with trellising, and iron arches, are so ju- 

 diciously arranged, that, I trust, it will be long 

 preserved as a perfect model, on a small scale, of 

 English Gardening, in the nineteenth century. 



who first published an account of this plant; (the genus was, 

 also, named by Willdenow Georgina, in compliment to J. G. 

 Georgi, a Russian Botanist, as the name Dahlia was previously 

 occupied by a different plant.) 



They were, at first, supposed, in Spain, to be an esculent vege- 

 table ; but it is now believed that the root is unfit for the table. 



