Plate 339. 



NEW VARIETIES OF PERNETTYA MUCEONATA. 



Hardy-berried plants are now very popular, because so useful for outdoor decoration 

 during the winter months. The new varieties of Pernettya now figured are great acquisitions 

 to this valuable group of plants. They were recently exhibited at the October meeting of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, and to one of them — lilacina — (fig. 2), a First-class 

 Certificate of merit was awarded. The names of the others suggest the colours of the berries 

 they bear, which are large, and produced with great freedom. 



These new varieties were raised by Mr. Lennox T. Davis, Oglesgrove Nursery, 

 Hillsborough, county Down, and they are the result of other seedlings obtained in the first 

 instance from P. mucronata angustifolia. The varieties exhibited by Mr. Davis at the meeting 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society in October last (inclusive of those figured) were only a part 

 of many varieties produced in almost endless shades of colour in the berry, and of different 

 habits of growth ; pink, blush-coloured, and almost white berried types being among them. 



The great value of these new varieties lies in their thorough hardiness, in their dwarf 

 spreading habit of growth, and in their character of bearing berries in rich profusion. Some 

 of the Pornettyas are ver}^ shy of bloom, but these new varieties are in remarkable contrast in 

 this respect. The many uses to which they can be put, will readily suggest themselves to 

 our readers. 



Plate 340. 

 SINGLE DAHLIAS. 



These Single Dahlias, produced by Mr. Henry Cannell, nurseryman, Swanley, Kent, 

 at the meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society on the 17th of September last, were 

 favourably received, and attracted so much attention, that First-class Certificates of merit 

 were awarded to two of them, viz. Paragon and Lutea. The first named (fig. 1) is a very 

 old variety, and can be found in Dahlia Catalogues as far back as 1839 ; the petals are dark 

 purplish maroon, distinctly edged with magenta purple, gradually deepening to a darker 

 shade. Lutea (fig. 2) is said to be a variety of D. coccinea, the colour bright lemon yellow. 

 Cervantesi (fig. 3) is something in the way of Paragon, but with a narrower edging of colour. 



It is said that these Single Dahlias are very free-blooming, consequently they are likely to 

 become popular as decorative objects and for cutting from as well as for border purposes. It is 

 considered they will be welcomed as an acceptable relief to the formal-shaped blossoms of 

 the high-class double-flowered varieties, which have become too massive for ordinary cut- 

 flower purposes. The most remarkable circumstance connected with these forms is, that a 

 Single Dahlia, rejected by florists of nearly half a century ago, as distanced by the then half- 

 formed double varieties, should re-appear at this distant date, when the Double Dahlia 

 is comparatively perfect in shape, and receive a First-class Certificate of merit. 



