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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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improved their positions—namely, of the Shows ;—Burgundy, James 
Service, Mr. Harris, Imperial (new), and H. Turner ; and of the Fancies : 
—Flora \V 3 ^att, Rev. J. B. M. Camm, Hercules, J. Lamont, E. Peck, and 
Rebecca (new). On the other hand, owing no doubt in a great measure 
to the unfavourable conditions of the past season, it will be noticed that 
James Vick, A. Cramond, and G, Smith among the Show Dahlias, and 
Mrs. A. Halls and J. M'Intosh amongst the Fancies have considerably re¬ 
ceded from the places which they last year occupied. 
SHOW DAHLIAS. 
No. of times 
shown. 
Name. 
When 
sent 
out. 
Raiser’s name. 
Colour. 
1883 
1884 
Tot. 
19 
24 
43 
Henry Walton. 
1873 
Keynes . 
Yellow and purple. 
21 
21 
42 
Hon. Mrs. P. Wyndham 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Yellow and scarier. 
18 
21 
39 
James Cocker . 
1871 
Keynes . 
Purple. 
15 
18 
33 
William Rawlings . 
1881 
Rawlings ... 
Purple. 
IG 
15 
31 
Goldfinder. 
1881 
Fellowes ... 
Yellow and red. 
15 
IG 
31 
Joseph Ashby. 
1879 
Turner . 
Orange. 
18 
12 
30 
James Vick . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Maroon. 
13 
17 
SO 
Shirley Hibberd . 
1881 
Rawlings ... 
Crimson. 
14 
15 
29 
Ethel Britton . 
1880 
Keynes & Co. 
White and purple. 
IG 
13 
29 
Prince Bismarck. 
1879 
Fellowes ... 
Puce. 
12 
14 
2G 
Mrs. Harris . 
1873 
Harris. 
White and lilac. 
C 
19 
25 
Burgundy. 
1877 
Turner . 
Puce and purple. 
10 
15 
25 
Royal Queen .. 
- 
Eckford. 
Cream and crimson. 
9 
14 
23 
Prince of Denmark. 
1881 
Fellowes ... 
Maroon and crimson. 
10 
12 
22 
Flag of Truce . 
18G8 
Wheeler. 
White and lilac. 
11 
11 
22 
John N. Keynes . 
1871 
Keynes . 
Yellow. 
14 
7 
21 
Alexander Cramond ... 
1872 
Keynes . 
Maroon. 
9 
12 
21 
Mrs. Dodds . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
White and lilac. 
12 
9 
21 
Vice-President. 
— 
Keynes . 
Orange. 
12 
8 
20 
John W. Lord . 
1877 
Keynes . 
Buff. 
7 
12 
19 
Clara . 
1879 
Rawlings ... 
Peach. 
G 
13 
19 
James Service . 
— 
Keynes . 
Crimson. 
10 
8 
18 
Julia Wyatt. 
— 
Keynes . 
White. 
7 
11 
18 
Rev J. Goodday. 
1879 
Rawlings ... 
Maroon and purple. 
10 
7 
17 
John Bennett . 
1875 
Rawlings ... 
Yellow and scarlet. 
G 
11 
17 
John W’yatt. 
1877 
Keynes . 
Scarlet. 
5 
12 
17 
Mr. Harris. 
1881 
Rawlings ... 
Scarlet. 
G 
10 
IG 
Herbert Turner . 
— 
Turner . 
White. 
4 
9 
IG 
Ovid . 
1874 
Turner . 
Purple. 
7 
9 
IG 
George Rawlings. 
1882 
Rawlings ... 
Maroon. 
7 
8 
15 
Mrs. S. Hibberd . 
1877 
Rawlings ... 
Cream and pink. 
G 
8 
14 
Lord Chelmsford. 
1880 
Keynes & Co. 
Maroon. 
2 
11 
13 
Imperial. 
1883 
Keynes & Co. 
Purple. 
5 
8 
13 
Modesty. 
1881 
Feilow’es ... 
Blush. 
5 
7 
13 
Thomas Goodwin . 
— 
Goodwin ... 
Maroon. 
8 
5 
13 
Walter H. Williams ... 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Scarlet. 
5 
7 
12 
Constancy . 
1878 
Harris. 
Yellow and lake. 
5 
7 
12 
George Dickson . 
1882 
Keynes & Co. 
Chestnut. 
8 
4 
12 
Pioneer . 
1882 
Fellowes ... 
Black. 
G 
5 
11 
Criterion . 
— 
Edwards ... 
Rose. 
8 
3 
11 
Emily Edwards . 
1879 
Keynes . 
White. 
9 
2 
11 
George Smith . 
1879 
Rawlings ... 
Magenta. 
5 
6 
11 
Rosy Morn . 
1879 
Keynes . 
Rose. 
7 
3 
10 
Annie Neville . 
— 
Keynes . 
White. 
7 
3 
10 
Duke of Connaught ... 
1879 
Keynes . 
Crimson. 
5 
5 
10 
H. W. Turner . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Yellow and crimson. 
FANCY DAHLIAS. 
IG 
23 
39 
Gaiety . 
1879 
Keynes . 
Yellow, red, and white 
15 
IG 
31 
Mrs. Saunders . 
— 
Turner . 
Yellow and white. 
14 
14 
28 
George Barnes. 
1878 
Keynes . 
Lilac and crimson. 
11 
13 
24 
F.anny Sturt. 
— 
Pope . 
Red and white. 
12 
12 
24 
.John Forbes. 
1882 
Keynes & Co. 
Fawn and maroon. 
G 
17 
23 
Flora Wyatt. 
— 
Keynes . 
Orange and red. 
9 
14 
23 
Rev. J. B. M. Camm ... 
— 
Keynes . 
Yellow and red. 
11 
10 
21 
Henry Glasscock. 
1875 
Keynes . 
Buff and crimson. 
7 
13 
20 
Hercules . 
1877 
Keynes . 
Yellow and crimson. 
2 
17 
19 
John Lamont . 
— 
Keynes . 
Maroon and black. 
10 
9 
19 
Miss Browning. 
1880 
Keynes & Co. 
Yellow and white. 
11 
8 
19 
Oracle. 
1877 
Fellowes. 
Yellow and crimson. 
7 
11 
18 
Egyptian Prince. 
— 
Keynes . 
Orange and red. 
8 
10 
18 
Professor Fawcett . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Lilac and brown. 
7 
10 
17 
Chorister . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Fawn and crimson. 
5 
12 
17 
Hugh Austin . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Orange and red. 
5 
11 
IG 
Florence Stark. 
1879 
Keynes . 
White and purple. 
5 
11 
16 
Miss L. Large . 
1876 
Keynes •. 
Yellow and crimson. 
10 
4 
14 
Mrs. N. Halls . 
1881 
Rawlings ... 
Scarlet and white. 
2 
10 
12 
Edward Peck . 
1881 
Keynes & Co. 
Lilac and maroon. 
10 
2 
12 
Jessie McIntosh . 
1880 
Keynes & Co. 
Red and white. 
2 
10 
12 
Rebecca . 
1883 
Keynes & Co. 
Lilac and crimson. 
and Mr. J. Burrell (of the firm of J. Burrell & Co.) for their kind 
assistance in helping me to take down the names of all the Dahlias 
throughout the Show. To the former I am also indebted for additional 
particulars respecting the raisers’ names and the dates of introduction. 
Every one of those varieties against which no date appears in the above 
tables were, I am informed, sent out prior to 1877. I shall feel much 
obliged to anyone who will supply these missing dates. 
In conclusion, I wish to take this opportunity of stating that in the 
course of next month I intend submitting to your readers a 
somewhat similar analysis, upon which I have been long en¬ 
gaged, of the Roses most frequently exhibited in recent years. 
—E. M,, Croydon. 
BOUVARDIAS. 
What a mistake it is to grow Bouvardias in heat when 
much better results may be obtained by growing them in cool 
frames. Yet we often see them treated as stove plants and 
subjected to a high temperature, which only produces rank 
soft growths, which flower very indifferently. To obtain really 
fine plants they must be grown in a cold frame, as under this 
treatment firm short-jointed wood is made, which in turn 
produces flowers of first-rate quality. The plants grown in 
this way at Moncreiffe have afforded abundance of flowers 
during the past two months, and will do so for some time yet. 
Few flowers are more suitable for cutting to make bouquets 
or fill glasses and vases, and seeing their flowering may be 
extended over three or four months, the Bouvardia is a plant 
that is really well worth a little trouble to secure it in good 
condition. Some of the best varieties for general purposes are 
Alfred Neuner, Hogarth, Bridal Bouquet, Dazzler, Vreelandi, 
and Bride’s Blush.— Caledonian. 
At . the two exhibitions I find that altogether 2140 Dahlias were ex¬ 
hibited—that is to say, 144G Shows and G97 Fancies. That there is no lack 
of good Dahlias is evidenced by the fact that no less than 180 different 
Show and 60 different Fancy varieties were staged at the Crystal Palace this 
year. 
My best thanks are due to two prominent exhibitors in the trade 
classes—Mr. W. H. Williams (of the firm of Keynes, Williams & Co.) 
HOT WEATHER AND FRUIT. TREES. 
While I may have misinterpreted “ A Thinker,” and at¬ 
tributed to him opinions which he does not fully entertain, 1 
am not prepared to admit the same in regard to Mr. Abbey 
who I am glad to see “A Thinker” does not support uncon¬ 
ditionally ; in fact his views and my own are not greatly 
divergent. 
Mr. Abbey’s article on page 191 is one of those skilful 
literary productions from which sentences may be culled to 
refute anything. I did not credit your correspondent with 
the sentence he quotes from my letter, but if his deductions 
are not what I stated—namely, “ That the scarcity of fruit of 
the past few years has been more the result of immature wood 
in autumn than of frost in spring,” the following, which 
appears the keynote of his article, is meaningless:—“The 
trees may form fruit buds, give promise of abundant crops by 
profusion of bloom, yet the fruit fails to set, or, if setting, 
drops off before taking the first swelling. This is a consequence 
of last year’s imperfect development of the buds and imma¬ 
turity of the wood.” That is a precise statement, and it is em¬ 
phasised ; for he goes on to say “ the future is not more hopeful 
unless we have favourable weather for the ripening of the 
wood and development of the blossom buds.” That is Mr. 
Abbey’s case—the kernel of his whole communication when 
divested of the surrounding husk ; and I say it is not sus¬ 
tainable. I maintain firmly that the fruitless seasons of the 
past have not been the “ consequence” of immaturity of the 
wood in autumn, but that frosts in spring have been far more 
destructive. 
Fruit trees have been laden with the finest of blossom year 
after year, yet no fruit has followed ; but stunted trees in 
orchards and healthy well-fed trees in gardens have been 
alike barren because of severely inclement weather during the 
blossoming period and of nothing else. 
Then as if clinching his argument on the paramount im¬ 
portance of ripened or stunted wood, we are asked to “ com¬ 
pare the growth and resulting crops of trees in orchards with 
those in the richer soil of gardens and under the manipulation 
of the cultivator.” Wliat does that mean ? It cannot mean 
anything else than that immature wood in autumn is more 
fatal to the crops than frost in Spring. But I dissent from 
the dictum that stunted trees are the most fruitful, since there 
are thousands of them fruitless now, while younger healthier 
trees under the “ manipulation of the cultivator ” are bearing 
fruit. 
I do not believe in stunted trees, nor am I satisfied that 
mere hardening of the wood is conducive to fruitfulness. I 
can see any day leafless fruit trees in an orchard on eravel, 
the wood is as hard and stunted as can well be imagined : but 
trees in the garden are still green, yet the growths being thin w 11 be 
sufficiently ripened, and, frost permitting, the trees will yield better 
crops than the starved and “ hard ” wooded orchard examples. 
Then what is the cause of fruit being more plentiful in the north than 
the south this year ? Is the barrenness of the Kentish orchards the 
“consequence’’ of immature wood last autumn, or of frosts during the 
blossoming period ? If the votes of cultivators were taken the majority 
