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and not a few of them have taken prizes at the English 

 and American exhibitions. In making this selection, 

 several superb varieties are omitted, not because they 

 are undervalued, but for the sake of brevity, which, 

 in a work of this kind, must be consulted. Those 

 marked A, are considered the very tallest, six feet and 

 upwards. Those marked B, from five to six feet. 

 Those ranging between four and five'feet, are marked 

 C, and the dwarfs are marked D. This plan is adopted, 

 because it is difficult to ascertain the exact height 

 they will grow to, even in one uniform soil and situa- 

 tion. The descriptions that follow having been taken 

 by different persons, whose soils and situations are 

 also various, a difference in the height of the plants, of 

 a foot or more, may sometimes be observed. Those 

 marked * obtained the greatest number of prizes at 

 the various Floricultural and Horticultural exhibitions 

 in Great Britain. There are, perhaps, a hundred more 

 in this list not far beneath them, and some equally 

 worthy of the star or asterisk, but none are marked 

 except those which won ten prizes and upwards. 



CATALOGUE OF DOUBLE DAHLIAS. 



Amanda, delicate pink, C 

 Agrippina, mottled, with rosy lilac, [superb,] - D 



Aurantia Pallida, beautiful orange and red, - C 



Aurantia Speciosa and Speciosissima, both beautiful fine 



orange, Q 

 Anne Boleyne, shaded lilac and white, - - D 

 Altro Purpurea, two varieties, superba and spediosa, C 

 Agamemnon, (Widnall's), rich ruby with fine cupped petals,C 

 Barrett's Susannah, exquisite purple, flower very compact, A 

 Brewer's Rose d' Amour, deep rose tip'd with white [excellent] A 

 Brewer's Peerless Orange, scarlet orange, - C 



Beauty of Chiswick, scarlet, B 



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