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REVIEWS. 
REVIEWS. 
The Annual Dahlia Register for 1836, containing particulars of 
the introduction of the Dahlia into this country ; mode of cultivation, 
and management ; the properties of a good fower ; arrangement of 
stands for shows, show flowers, fyc. ; and upwards of ffty highly 
coloured f guves of dissimilar Dahlias, consisting chiefly of very su¬ 
perior new fowers, with catalogues of growers. Also specimens of 
several old flowers, with an alphabetical index of seven hundred varie¬ 
ties of the Dahlia; and an account of exhibitions held in England 
and Jersey in 1835. By an Amateur. H. and W. Wright, Hay- 
market. 
This is, indeed, a splendid publication, and must have cost a consi¬ 
derable sum in getting up. To the lovers of this now extensively cul¬ 
tivated and fashionable flower, the book will be a great treat. Above 
fifty of the finest varieties are lithographed by Hullmandel, accurately 
drawn, and beautifully coloured; and as they are represented, the re¬ 
gularity of the petals is astonishingly exact, and more like the reflec¬ 
tions in a kaleidoscope, than the regularity of nature. No doubt the 
figures are faithful, and the execution reflects very great credit on the 
artists employed, whoever they may be. 
Nor are the pictures all; many very excellent rules for their culti¬ 
vation are given in the shape of extracts from Mantel's Floriculture , 
and from the Horticultural Journal. In the preface the author states, 
a We have figured nothing in this work but what has passed our 
own hands, which were taken from blooms while in perfection, and 
may be relied on as true and correct specimens of the original flowers 
they represent. If the advantages we contemplate should be derived 
by our friends through the medium of this work, which we hope will 
be the case, we have in contemplation such arrangements for our next 
publication as, we have no doubt, will be more satisfactory to them, 
and of greater utility to the public.” 
Thus it appears that the present is only the first of a series with 
which we are to be treated. Undoubtedly, if the dahlia rage conti¬ 
nues, and if cultivators continue to be as successful in raising new 
varieties, as they have been during these last seven years, there is 
ample room for a Dahlia Annual, and we wish the scheme every 
success. 
Every public dahlia grower should have a copy, if for no other 
