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the Cactus Dahlia, an omission to mention my own work and the work of 

 my predecessor, the late Mr. Walter Williams, whom so many Fellows of 

 the E.H.S. reckon amongst their departed friends, would savour of a 



Fig. 226. — One of the karly forms of Cactus Dahlias. 



false modesty. Our firm (Messrs. Keynes, Williams & Co.) had for some 

 forty or fifty years paid special attention to the raising of new Dahlias of 

 the Show, Fancy, and Pompon types, and seedlings to the number of 



