THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
December 1 , 1842. 
THE DAHLIAS. 
WITH PORTRAITS OF SIR R. SALE AND RIVAL YELLOW. 
The illustrations of these flowers are given at an early period 
this season, in order to furnish our distant readers who are pur¬ 
chasers of the new dahlias, with a description of some of the 
best of this year. The subjects of the present plates are two 
seedlings of 1841, raised by Messrs. Smith of the Cambridge- 
Heath Nursery, Hackney. 
Sir Robert Sale needs no recommendation of ours, it has had 
great publicity given it during the past season, at all the me¬ 
tropolitan shows besides several provincial, and is admitted to 
be first rate; this flower and Turvill’s Essex Triumph, and 
Mountjoy’s Virgil, are decidedly the finest varieties in then 
class we have yet seen. Rival Yellow is a flower of which 
we have high expectations; it has scarcely yet been seen in the 
perfection w 7 e believe it capable of attaining ; a good yellow is a 
flower still much wanted, as there is not one at present that we 
are acquainted with which can be depended on : of Rival Yellow 
we have a high opinion. In no former season do we remem¬ 
ber the difference so striking between the country growth of 
dahlias and those grown in the immediate neighbourhood of the 
metropolis; the latter have been subjected throughout the greater 
part of the season to the annoying and destructive attacks of 
the thrip, and though the effects of these pestiferous insects may 
have been felt in some parts of the country, the majority of cases 
occurred in the vicinity of London, and in addition to this the 
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