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while this cannot be disputed, it must be granted that their 

 floriferousness takes oft' from the stiffness to a very large extent. 



One can feel nothing but pleasure that every section lias its 

 adherents, as there is room in our gardens for them all, and it 

 would be a thousand pities if either of them was allowed to die 

 out. So long as they all have their keen partisans, so long will 

 they be widely grown and highly appreciated. As to their value in 

 the garden it were an impossibility to speak too generously, for 

 from the middle of August until the end of September, and often 

 much later, the gardens of England would be bare indeed did 

 they not contain a considerable quantity of Dahlias. 



Fortunately they are plants of the small as well as of the large 

 garden, and many of us have seen blooms in the cottagers' enclosures 

 that would in no sense have been out of place in any exhibition in 

 the country. In numbers they could not have competed with 

 those of a Walker, a Mortimer, a West, a Turner, or a Keynes, but 

 individual examples there were whose inclusion in a stand from 

 either of these sources would have brought no disgrace thereto. 



Selections of Dahlias. 



Twelve Show Varieties, 

 Colonist, chocolate and 



fawn. 

 Dr. Keynes, rich buff. 

 Duchess of York, lemon, 



edged pink. 

 J. T. West, yellow edged 



purple. 

 John Walker, white. 

 Maud Fellowes, pink, 



shaded purple. 

 Mrs. Gladstone, paleT3lush. 

 Mrs. Langtry, cream and 



crimson. 

 R. T. Rawlings, clear 



yellow. 

 Victor, dark maroon. 

 William Powell, primrose. 

 Wm. Rawlings, crimson 



purple. 



Twelve Fancy Varieties. 

 Buffalo Bill, buff, striped 



vermilion. 

 ' Dorothy, fawn and 



maroon. 

 Duchess of Albany, orange 



and crimson. 

 Emin Pasha, yellow, 



striped crimson. 

 Frank Pearce, rose, striped 



crimson. 

 Goldsmith, yellow, striped 



crimson. 



Fancy Varieties, con- 

 tinued. 

 Matthew Campbell, buff 



and crimson. 

 Mrs. J. Downie, orange 



and scarlet. 

 Mrs. Saunders, yellow and 



white. 



Rev. J. B. M. Camm, 



yellow and red. 

 T. W. Girdlestone, lilac, 



striped maroon. 

 Watchman , yellow, striped 



crimson. 



Tiuenty - Jour Cactus 

 Varieties. 



Ajax, orange and buff. 



Alpha, white, flaked 

 purple. 



Britannia, salmon, shaded 

 apricot. 



Clara G. Stredwick, 

 salmon, shaded yellow. 



Cornucopia, reddish sal- 

 mon. 



Eva, white {see p. 87). 

 Gabriel, crimson, tipped 

 white. 



Galliard, crimson scarlet. 

 Island Queen [see p. 91). 

 J. H. Jackson, maroon. 

 J. W. AVilkinson, rosy 

 crimson. 



