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add manure, fresh soil is all that is necessary " We 

 may observe, in confirmation of M. Fintelman's ex- 

 perience, that dahlias have been grown in the flower- 

 garden at Hylands, on the same soil, without trench- 

 ing, manure, or fresh soil, for many years ; and every 

 year they have attained, though not to the height of 

 16 ft., yet to as great perfection as the dahlias of the 

 Horticultural Society's garden, or as dahlias do attain 

 in this country. (Pruss. Sort. Trans, i.) 



Walls facing the south and the east afford excellent 

 protections to dahlias, therefore they may be used as 

 screens for concealing such walls and other fences or 

 unsightly objects, presenting, as they do, at the same 

 time, a beautiful spectacle to the eye by the variety 

 of their colours, from snowy white to the darkest 

 violet, purple blood-red and blackish blood-red, sul- 

 phur colour, orange, and scarlet, in all their shades, 

 especially if we can contrive to group the colours in 

 masses. 



Although an open situation is essential for the pro- 

 duction of the most perfect dahlias, yet very good 

 flowers of this genus may be grown in the borders of 

 shrubberies, and other confined parts of the pleasure- 

 ground. In such situations, however, it is advisable 

 that only the common and inferior sorts should be 

 thus grown. 



An excellent situation for planting first-class dahlias, 

 and well-calculated to exhibit their flowers to the 



