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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
house, till it is seen by the end of the shoots which will flower; they 
are then potted into strawberry-si zed pots, (thirty-twos) in a mix¬ 
ture of peat and loam for flowering. Mr. Brown has them to flower 
beautifully, when the plants are very small.— James Brown, Jun. 
A Description of a Garden-Scraper. —The following is a 
figure and description of a garden-scraper, (Fig. 16) made of hard 
wood, which is found to answer exceedingly well. I understand, 
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they have been long known on the Continent, perhaps they may 
have been seen by some of your readers, but as they have never been 
noticed, either in your Register, or the 
Gardeners’ Magazine, I thought it 
best to send a figure, being satisfied, 
that if they were known, they would 
be more generally adopted in this 
country. Fig. 17, is a section, 1, 2, 3, 4, are the bars fixed in 
a frame about two feet long; the bars are one inch thick, by two 
inches deep, and are placed about two inches apart, so that the gra¬ 
vel falls through betwixt the bars. It might be made of cast-iron, 
the bars being hollow. M. Saul. 
Levick’s Commander in Chief Dahlia. —The engraving of 
Mr. Levick’s New Dahlia, inserted in the Register of last month, is, I 
think, a very imperfect delineation.* It is a very splendid flower indeed, 
and as you may not have seen it in bloom, I hope this description 
will not be unacceptable. It grows about six feet high, and is a most 
abundant flowerer. No Dahlia, I am acquainted with, will produce 
more in one season, and none or scarcely any of the flowers are ever 
hid in the foliage : the colours are the most lively I ever saw, the 
ground colour is bright scarlet, richly striped with dark maroon, oc¬ 
casionally the latter forms the ground colour of the flower; when 
this is the case, the flowers are striped with scarlet mixed with flames 
of a fiery orange, but the former are the prevailing colours. It is a 
very double variety, seldom or ever producing a single or semidouble 
flower. It was raised in 1831, and took the first prize in the Shef¬ 
field Horticultural Meeting of that year, and again in 1832; and a 
drawing of it was taken by Mr. Thos. Gray, of Pitsmoor.— J. Revell. 
* Although we had never seen the plant in flower, yet we were satisfied from 
the accounts of it given to ns by our friends, that it was a very splendid variety. 
