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each variety, as that can be easily obtained from any catalogue ; 

 but the lists are briefly as follows : — 



Twenty-four of the best Single Dahlias. — Eclipse, Amos" 

 Perry, Kate, Victoria, Northern Star, Enchantment, Cetewayo, 

 Excelsior, Gulielma, Marion Hood, Miss Roberts, Sunningdale 

 White, Mrs. J. Coninck, Marie Linden, Mr. Kennett, Miss 

 Henshaw, Mikado, Duchess of Albany, Sunningdale Yellow, 

 James Scobie, Walter Ware, W. C. Harvey, Duchess of West- 

 minster, Paragon. 



There are a good many varieties (not included in this list) 

 with flowers of great excellence of form, but of questionable or 

 dreary colours. It has been sometimes suggested that it is 

 desirable to grow some of these doubtful colours to show up by 

 contrast the brighter and more beautiful varieties to even greater 

 advantage ; but the morality of knowingly allowing a rogue to be 

 at large, solely for the purpose of making conspicuous the honesty 

 of other men, can hardly be admitted. 



Twenty-four of the best Pompon Dahlias. — Phoebe (of most 

 excellent habit, freedom, &c), Fashion (very bright, and not tall), 

 Darkness, Fairy Tales, Little Duchess, White Aster (of which 

 Guiding Star is a synonym), Grace, Whisper, Golden Gem, 

 Janet, Isabel, Iseult, Eurydice, Ariel, Vivid, Ernest, Leila, 

 Gem, Mabel, Lothair, Red Indian, Don Juan, Lady Blanche ; 

 Admiration. 



The best of the Pompon Dahlias produce a most gay and 

 decorative effect in the garden, but in the cut state the flowers 

 cannot be entirely acquitted of a certain primness and formality 

 — having neither the grace and lightness of the Single, nor the 

 brilliance of the Cactus Dahlias. 



Twelve of the best Cactus Dahlias. — Panthea (at present the 

 most beautiful and effective, whether in the cut state or in the 

 garden, of all the Cactus Dahlias), Juarezii, Mrs. Hawkins, 

 Delicata, Professor Baldwin, Honoria, Asia, Duke of Clarence, 

 Lady Brassey, Amphion, Glory of Swanley, Robert Maher. 



Of the above, as has been already mentioned, Amphion hides 

 its fine flowers among its foliage, and if the selection be made 

 with a view only to effect in the garden, Amphion might be 

 replaced by King of Cactus, which is very showy on the plant, 

 though rather coarse for use in the cut state. 



Twelve of the best Decorative Dahlias. — Glare of the Garden 



