THE DAHLIA. 
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right. If any shrivel or commence rotting, or 
there is any danger of losing them, let them be 
set to work immediately, to get a cutting or 
two from them before they are quite gone. 
A FEW" GOOD DAHLIAS. 
Antagonist, white, (Bragg;) Essex Triumph, 
dark, (Turville;) Admiral Stopford, dark, 
(Trenfield ;) Mrs. Shelley, rose ; Standard 
of Perfection, deep crimson, (Keynes;) Sir J. 
Stuart Richardson, rose shaded, (Sharpe) ; 
Lady St. Maur, white tipped, (Brown;) Queen 
of Roses, fine rose, (Widnall;) Nonpareil, deep 
scarlet, (Girling;) Bermondsey Bee, (Girling;) 
Beeswing, purple or claret, (Drummond;) 
Cleopatra, pale yellow, (Atwell ;) Gloria 
Mundi, (Gebherd ;) Lady Leicester, mottled 
orange; Sir E. Antrobus, rich red, (Keynes;) 
Princess Radziwill, white, w T ith deep purple 
tips, (Gaines;) Marchioness Cornwallis, white, 
faintly tipped, (Whale ;) Marquis of Ayles- 
bury, rosy purple, (Spary;) Queen of Per- 
petuals, lilac, (Girling;) Captain Warner, 
shaded crimson, (Girling;) Biondetta, orange 
buff, shaded, (Foreign;) Athlete, rosy lilac ; 
Beauty of Sussex, (Mitchell;) Princess Royal, 
straw tipped with purple, (Hudson;) Van- 
guard, shaded crimson; Queen of Sheba, blush 
or white, (Wilkinson;) Berryer, dark, (Turner;) 
Scarlet Gem, (Turner ;) Yellow Standard, 
(Keynes;) Rosette, pale rose, (Girling;) Gold- 
finder, crocus yellow, (Bushell;) Victorine, 
pale rose, (Bushell;) Miss Vyse, white tipped, 
(Turner;) Lady of the Lake, white tipped, 
(Keynes;) Golden Fleece, buff orange, (Han- 
sard ;) Louis Philippe, crimson, (Turner ;) 
Andromeda, dull yellow, with pink tips, (Col- 
lisson ;) Star, very bright, tipped blood-red 
(Bragg.) 
A FEW OF THE BEST FANCY DAHLIAS. 
Admirable, Queen of the French, Coquette, 
Madame Watchy, George Clayton, Adolphe 
Dubras, Roi des Points, Minerva, Hermione, 
Ludwig Pemsl, Mad. Chauviere, Master Men- 
zer, Ober Justizrath, Judy, Glory of Dahlias, 
Adonis, Miss Peel, Master Merryman. 
THE NEW DAHLIAS FOR 1848. 
The new dahlias for May next do not pre- 
sent very attractive features ; there are very 
few, if any, first-rate, but many useful and 
some popular varieties. We shall not pretend 
to recommend one more than another, but en- 
deavour to describe all that are to be submitted 
by the principal growers, or that have appeared 
at the leading exhibitions. If we omit any 
it will be for the want of the names being 
given, or the absence of any point worth 
mentioning. 
The Queen of England. — A flower ex- 
hibited in an overgrown state, and therefore 
to all appearance above the medium size, and 
proportionably coarse, but very gay in colour? 
double and symmetrical, eye rather loose, face a 
little flat, deeply marked edge of rich lake. 
If we may give an opinion founded on its over- 
grown state, we should say that grown mode- 
rately it would be a very showy and useful 
variety. 
Walter Hilson. — Grown over much, and 
therefore larger and coarser than it ought to 
be ; a brilliant orange, brighter than any other 
of its class, outline moderate, petals small and 
close, very symmetrical, face rather flat. A 
flower that would be infinitely better grown of 
a moderate size, but evidently overdone at 
the shows. 
War Eagle. — Colour bright red, outline 
pretty fair, the flower double and symmetrical, 
size medium or rather under, to all appearance 
likely to be a useful though not a very novel 
variety. 
Nell Gwynne. — A buff or rather dull- 
shaded primrose, without being first-rate in 
any particular point, sufficiently good in most, 
to show as a variety ; face tolerable, centre 
passable, altogether very distinct and symmetri- 
cal, and may prove a useful flower in a stand 
of twenty-four, where there is generally too 
many in a class. 
Compacta. — Rosy lilac. A flower very 
little shown, good outline, well cupped, almost 
inclined to quill too much, but likely to be 
very useful in its class ; size medium, colour 
desirable, and may be caught as an excellent 
flower, very double and tolerably compact. 
Amy. — A tipped flower, very showy, the 
purple being distinct, and though not a first- 
rate outline, very likely to be useful on account 
of the scarcity of even second-class light 
flowers. 
Belted Knight. — A sort of shaded flower, 
in which there are deepest yellow approaching 
to orange- salmon colour, and occasionally 
white. A fancy flower, very bold and showy, 
outline not first-rate, face inclined to flatness, 
but desirable on account of its novelty. 
Hamlet. — A mottled flower, in which 
bright crimson predominates. One of the 
novelties of the season, which possesses, to a 
certain degree, most of the requisite qualities, 
without being extraordinary in any of them. 
A flower that will be grown pretty generally 
by exhibitors. 
Boule de feu. — Bright scarlet, quills a 
good deal and petals scarcely touch, size me- 
dium, general form good, very double and 
symmetrical, centre a little sunk, and may be 
called a good thick flower ; shoulder rising 
almost too much, which gives the fall to the 
centre. 
Crocus. — A very bright yellow, average 
form, but nothing very extraordinary, size 
medium, tolerably double and symmetrical, 
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