DAH'LIA SUPER'FLUA. 
DAHLIA. 
Blood-red, short disk, Anemone-flowered variety. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA SUl’EBFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
COBYMBIFERiE . 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
5 feet. 
Aug. Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1789. 
No. 297. 
The name of our present universally admired genus 
has imfortunately been subjected to change, and 
doubts on the propriety of using Dahlia or Georgina 
are continually heard. Some truly English hearts 
have yielded a preference to the latter, believing it 
to have been adopted in honour of oim late revered 
sovereign, George III. in whose reign it was intro- 
duced ; but this is not the fact ; it was chosen in com- 
pliment to a Russian botanist, named Georgi. Dahl 
was a botanist of Sweden. 
It is said that a genus has already been established 
under the name Dahlia, but such genus is certainly 
unknown to England. The character implied by the 
trivial name, superflua, has proved, as we formerly 
expected, inconstant; and another name, pinnata, 
which has been partially adopted, implies a character 
that is also variable. Specific distinction is, perhaps, 
unimportant, for we really believe that our gardens, 
at present, possess but one true species. 
The Anemone, and Globe, fiowered varieties pos- 
sess novelty and beauty; we, therefore, give a list 
of them, and an estimate of their worth ; soliciting 
indulgence for variation of quality and opinion. 
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