they are grown for exhibition, various contrivances are used for 
shading, etc. 
Great perfection has been attained in the shape and general 
contour of the Dahlia, and one has only to refer to the plates 
of some twenty years back, to see how great the progress has 
been; in fact, so great is it that it is only some novelty in colour 
that now commends itself to the taste of the floral world. This 
Mrs. Bush possesses; no flower of this soft peach hue has been 
obtained since Widnall’s Queen, raised about 1838,which was very 
inferior in shape and size. Mrs. Bush is a full-sized flower, the 
plant growing from four to five feet high, and very robust; it was 
raised by Mr. Bush, of Bath, the raiser of Bobert Bruce , and has 
been purchased by Mr. Turner, of Slough. It received a first- 
class certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society. Messrs. Turner, of Slough, and Keynes, of 
Salisbury, are the 'sources from whence the best Dahlias ema¬ 
nate, as they are not only raisers of seedlings themselves, but 
obtain those of other raisers. Mr. Turner’s new flowers are, in 
addition to Mrs. Bush,—Lord Derby (Pope), Chieftain (Holmes), 
Model (Perry), Delicata (Perry), Una (Turner), Captain Harvey 
(Turner), Cygnet (Turner), Bob Bidley (Turner), and Blondin 
(Turner). Mr. Keynes’s are,— Black Prince ( Keynes), Countess 
of Portsmouth (Rawlings), Donald Beaton (Dodds), Empress of 
India (Rawlings), Goldfinch (Keynes), Imperial (Keynes), John 
Harrison (Harrison), Lady Elcho (Dodds), Maria Carter (Keynes), 
Minnie Dodds (Dodds), Maid of Bath (Hooper), Oscar (Addis), 
Boyal Purple (Keynes), Sir J. Outram (Rawlings). 
