2fy Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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Horticultural Society. 5th. Observations on the culture of the 

 Dahlia in the northern parts of Great Britain, by Mr. Wedg- 

 wood, read before the Horticultural Society in November, 

 1808, and published together with the preceding, in the first 

 volume of the Society's Transactions. 6th. The Dahlias are 

 described and noticed by Professor Willdenow, of Berlin, 

 in his Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinen- 

 sis, printed at Berlin, in 1809 ; and in this he refers to the 

 plates and descriptions of his Hortus Berolinensis, in which 

 they had been figured a short time before, and to his edition 

 of the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus. 7th. Note sur les Geor- 

 gina (Dahlia) by Mons. De Candolle, in the 15th volume 

 of the Annales du Museum, printed in 1810. 8th. Instruc- 

 tions for the cultivation of the Dahlias, in France, are given 

 by Mons. Dumont de Courset, in Le Botaniste Cultiva- 

 teur. 9th. Figures of different varieties of the Dahlias, with 

 some observations on each, have, at various times, been pub- 

 lished in the Paradisus Londinensis, the Botanist's Repository, 

 the Botanical Magazine, and the Botanical Register, to all 

 of which I shall have occasion, hereafter, more particularly to 

 refer. 



The Genus, as is stated in several of the above works, was 

 named in honour of Dahl, a Swedish botanist ; some objec- 

 tions were at first made to this name, under an erroneous 

 impression, that it had already been appropriated to another 

 Genus ; and a further objection was taken to it, from the 

 similarity of its sound to Dalea, a genus so named after our 

 countryman Dale : the first of these objections induced 

 Professor Willdenow, in his Species Plantarum, to apply 

 to these plants a new name, that of Georgina, (after 



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