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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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NEW FANCY DAHLIAS, 
Belle <le Peeq (Miquet); blush edged with yellow, and striped 
with red; fine form. 10s. Od. 
Elegantissima (Mitchel); rose peach, tipped with white. 
10s. fid. 
Gustave (Buck); purple violet, tipped with white; fine. 
10s. Od. 
Mrs. Hansard (Union); yellow, tipped with white; fine. 
10s. Od. 
Pompey (Tassart); orange, striped with crimson; large and 
fine. 7s. Od. 
Princess Charlotte (Miquet) ; violet purple, tipped with 
white ; extra fine ; the best in its class. 10s. Od. 
Tricolor (Turner) ; yellow, tipped with white, and sometimes 
striped with crimson; curious and fine. 7s. Od. 
Vulcan (Tassart); large; red crimson, tipped with white. 
7s. Od. 
SELECT OLDER VARIETIES (price 24s. the dozen). 
Buffalo Girl (Cook); orange salmon. 0 ft. 
Champion (Edwards) ; crimson purple. 3-§ ft. 
1 El Dorado (Salter); canary yellow ; extra fine. Oft. 
Elizabeth (Daniels) ; fine lilac. 4 ft. 
Esmeralda (Batteur); rosy fawn ; extra. 3 ft. 
Fame (Turvill) ; shaded plum ; large high centre, and 
constant. 4 ft. 
Friedensonne (Sieckman) ; clear - yellow. 4ft. 
John Edward (Salter); vermilion scarlet; extra fine. Oft. 
Magnificent (Keynes); mottled amethyst; extra fine. Oft. 
Mademoiselle H. Gobert (Voisenon); clear rose; extra. 4 ft. 
Mrs. Seldon (Turner); clear yellow; extra. Oft. 
Negro (Fellows) ; nearly black. 4 ft. 
Queen of Lilacs (Turner) ; pale lilac; fine form, and excel¬ 
lent show flower. 
- Primroses (Keynes) ; fine primrose. 4 ft. 
- the Isles (Skynner) ; white, tipped with deep 
crimson ; extra fine. 3§ ft. 
Seraph (Fellows); orange saffron; fine. 4 ft. 
Sir F. Bathurst (Keynes); fine crimson; extra fine. 3 ft. 
Snowball (Barnes) ; pure white. 4 ft. 
Snoivjlakc (Dodds) ; pure white. 4 ft. 
Thames Bank Hero (Robinson) ; rich crimson. 4 ft, 
select OLDER FANCY dahlias (24 s. per dozen). 
Admiration (Balleur) ; yellow huff, striped with crimson. 
4 ft. 
Carissima (Salter) ; pure white striped with rose and crim¬ 
son. 3 ft. 
Elizabeth (Prockter) ; rose, tipped with white ; extra. 4 ft. 
Floral Beauty ; rose, tipped with white. 3 ft. 
Forget-me-not (Hooper); rose crimson, tipped with white; 
extra. 
Gaiety (Dodds); orange, mottled with red. 3 ft. 
Highland Chief (Keynes) ; red salmon, tipped with white. 
4 ft. 
Jeannette (Tauvel) ; chesnut, tipped with white, 3§ ft. 
Leuchtende Von Kostritz ; scarlet, tipped with white. 3§ ft. 
Madame Durr; yellow, tipped with white; extra. Oft. 
Mrs. Labonchere (Turner); scarlet, tipped with white. 3 ft, 
Heine du Jour (Batteur) ; orange, striped with crimson. 4 ft. 
select old varieties (12 s. per dozen). 
Andromeda (Collison) ; buff and pink; fine. 4 ft. 
Attraction (Whale); white, bordered with carmine. 
Black Eagle (Simkins) ; nearly black. 
; Beauty (Turner); white and crimson, mottled. 4 ft. 
California (Whale) ; good yellow. 
Earl of Clarendon ; scarlet, bright scarlet orange ; fine. 3 ft. 
Frederic Jerome (Widnall) ; violet purple; fine. 3 ft. 
Gem of the North (Edwards) ; bright purple. 4 ft. 
Golden Drop (Oliver) ; yellow; fine. Oft. 
Grufin (Brandhoff) ; white, tipped with carmine. 
Grenadier (Turner) ; ruby crimson; fine form, and noble 
habit. 5 ft. 
Inimitable (Laloi) ; rosy purple; extra. 4 ft. 
Lord Mayor (Edwards) ; purple crimson. 
Mr. Seldon (Turner); rose purple ; a noble constant dahlia 
of first-rate properties. 3 ft. 
select old fancy dahlias (12s. per dozen). 
Belle de Nogent (Mea) ; scarlet, tipped with white. 
Conspicua (Salter) ; crimson violet, tipped with white. 
Dulcinee (Morat) ; violet, tipped with white. 
Emperor de Moroc (Haidboy) ; brown, tipped with white; 
extra, 
Flora superba (Hooper); yellow, tipped with white ; extra. 
Gasparina (Foursten); maroon, striped with white; extra. 
Minna Trail (Ivuiglit) ; scarlet, tipped with white. 
Miss Blaclmore (Dodds) ; purple, tipped with white ; extra. 
(Eilat Parfait (Pavis); orange, striped with red. 
Picoiee (Pavis); yellow, striped with red. 
Rainbow (Keynes) ; red, tipped with white. 
Striata pcrfecta (Batteur); lavender, striped with rose; 
extra. 
CHARCOAL FIRES FOR SMALL GREENHOUSES. 
As it may be interesting to some of your readers, I will 
state the result of a two winters’ trial of the above, as burnt I 
in a Boughton’s patent stove, which is of nearly the same 
construction as both Carman’s and Joyce’s, excepting that 
the regulator is at the bottom, and that there is a half-inch 
pipe passed through it from top to bottom, thus allowing a 
circulation through it of heated air. 
I. There is no advantage in using the patent charcoal; 
the ordinary kind costing less and answering quite as well. 
2. Use it broken to the size of a walnut, as it lies closer 
and ought to cost less : I give for small Is. (Id. per bushel. 
3. If well lighted, and a moderate draught of ah’, the regu¬ 
lator may be pushed in to within one-fourth its length, and 
then the heat will be more uniform, and it will last from 
eight to nine horn’s before it will require to be refilled. Two 
bushels and. a half serve me for about 250 hours—say 
eleven days and nights. 
Against this there are several disadvantages to be set off: 
1. If in heating the fuel any coal should get mixed with it, 
it gives out a disagreeable sulphurous smell. 2. It causes, 
unavoidably, much dirt and dust, even if always removed to 
be filled up; and it must not be placed in the house until 
the heavy smoke has passed away, thus giving much more 
trouble. 3. You cannot raise a uniform temperature; as 
while when at its height it -will raise the temperature to a 
heat of 00° to 05°, it will afterwards fall to a little above 
freezing before it is quite out; at the same time, experience 
in regulating will go far towards remedying this, but, of 
course, cannot wholly prevent it. 
Taking the pros and cons into consideration, I purpose 
abandoning this mode, as I have the convenience of gas, 
which I have just laid on, having seen it answer very well 
at a neighbour’s. The mode adopted by him in his lean-to 
house of three lights is that of a six-inch tube of iron 
running along the front of the house under the shelf, about 
twelve inches from the ground ; in the centre of the tube is 
a gas-burner, and a small tube at each end of the larger 
tube passing through the wall into the open air, by which 
the consumed and foul air escapes. 
W. D. Paine, Cannonbury Park. 
FEEDING YOUNG CHICKENS. 
As experience is better than theory, I just trespass on 
your time for a few minutes, with a remark with regal'd to 
the poultry yard. 
I for some time fed my young chickens on groats, which I 
was told was the best thing they could have. Great numbers 
of my chickens used to gradually pine away and die out of 
every brood; the reason I could not discover. However, last 
spring, on visiting a farmer, his wife told me, that she had 
long since given up feeding her chickens on groats, as she 
could not insure their being fresh, and when stale they 
griped the chickens, and often killed them. 
I took the hint, and have never since given my chickens 
groats, and they have done remarkably well. I now give 
them boiled rice, or ground barley; the latter I find an 
excellent thing; it is not ground to meal, but broken 
into about the size of a pin’s head. 
H. L. K. 
