Plate 383. 



DAHLIA YUAREZII. 



This very remarkable Dahlia was exhibited by Mr. Henry Cannell, the Nurseries, 

 Swanley, at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on September 16; it 

 attracted considerable attention from the botanists and horticulturists present, and 

 received a Botanical Certificate of Merit. The Gardener's Chronicle regards it as "a new 

 type of Dahlia altogether, a sort of Sea Anemone among Dahlias, with long crimson- 

 scarlet pointed petals, like the tentacles of an Actinia — a striking novelty, christened 

 temporarily the Cactus Dahlia, and which may be the parent of a new strain." 



This singular Dahlia came from a firm of Dutch nurserymen, who derived it some few 

 years since from a French nurseryman, and suppose it to have been imported from Mexico. 

 We are further told by the Gardener's Chronicle that " the culture of this singular variety 

 is precisely the same as for other Dahlias. It forms a dwarf, compact-growing plant, the 

 first flowers produced being among the foliage, and not well thrown up above the leaves. 

 Such is all the information we are enabled to glean up to the present respecting this 

 Dahlia." We are indebted tc Mr. Cannell for the subject of our illustration, so well 

 sketched by Mr. Fitch. 



Plate 384. 



NEPENTHES OUTRAMIANA. 



This very pleasing Pitcher Plant is a garden hybrid raised between N. Sedeni and 

 N. Hookeri, and represents one of the most distinct crosses yet obtained. Mr. Fitch is to 

 be congratulated on the excellent drawing he has made of this fine plant. The pitchers 

 are of medium size, broad at the base, tapering into a cylindrical neck, green, thickly 

 dotted with small reddish-brown dots, and with pencillings of the same here and there, 

 and furnished with two narrow, finely-toothed wings. 



We presume Nepenthes Outramiana was obtained by Mr. B. S. Williams, Victoria 

 Nurseries, Holloway, who exhibited it at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 on October 14 last, when it was awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. It is one of 

 several valuable hybrids that have been obtained of late years : Messrs. Veitch & Sons 

 having contributed several new types of rare merit. The Nepenthes represent some of 

 the most singularly beautiful forms in the whole vegetable kingdom, and a collection of 

 them is a sight full of interest to the horticulturist. 



