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the dahlia are the following: — Cavanille's f, 'Icones 

 Plantarum qua &c v in Hortis (Hispania) hospitau- 

 tur," printed at Madrid in 1791, and subsequent 

 years. "Mernoire sur la cellure des Dahlias, £c. par 

 Mons. Thouin," in the third volume of the Annates 

 da Museum* published at Paris in 1S04. A commu- 

 nication from Mr. Buonainti, librarian to Lord Hol- 

 land, on the dahlia, printed at the end of Macdon- 

 ald's " Gardener's Dictionary " this appears to have 

 been written about July 1806. "Observations on 

 the different species of Dahlia, &c./ J by Mr. Salisbury, 

 read April, 1808, before the Horticultural Society. 

 " Observations on the Culture of the Dahlia in the 

 northern parts of Great Britain," by Mr. "Wedge- 

 wood, read before the Horticulral Society in Novem- 

 ber, 1808, and published, together with the preced- 

 ing, in the first volume of the Society's Transactions. 

 The dahlias are described and noticed by Professor 

 Willdenow, of Berlin, in his (: Enumeratio Plantarum 

 Horti Regis Botanici Berolinensis," printed at Berlin, 

 in 1809 a and in this he refers to the plates and des- 

 criptions of the Hortis Berolinensis, in which they 

 had been figured a short time before : and to his edi- 

 tion of the Species Plantarum of Linneeus. "Note 

 sur la Georgina (dahlia),'" by Mons. De Candolle, in 

 the 15th volume of the Annates de la Museum, printed 

 in 1810. Instructions for the cultivation of the 



