. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 36 CASSELL'S POPULAR GAEDENING. hardly anything else is desired in the way of sym- metry, doubleness, and colour. There are now in cultivation five distinct classes of Dahlias: viz., Show, Fancy, Bedding, Bouquet, and â Single. These distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, and it is difi&cult to define them in popular terms. The Show varieties comprise all self-coloured flowers, and those having dark-coloured tips. To the com- position of a Fancy Dahlia, two or more distinct colours are essential. There are Fancy Dah- lias, and striped Fancy Dahlias :
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 36 CASSELL'S POPULAR GAEDENING. hardly anything else is desired in the way of sym- metry, doubleness, and colour. There are now in cultivation five distinct classes of Dahlias: viz., Show, Fancy, Bedding, Bouquet, and â Single. These distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, and it is difi&cult to define them in popular terms. The Show varieties comprise all self-coloured flowers, and those having dark-coloured tips. To the com- position of a Fancy Dahlia, two or more distinct colours are essential. There are Fancy Dah- lias, and striped Fancy Dahlias : if the varie- gation is in the form of stripes or flakes, whether the light or the dark preponderate; if the variegation con- sists in the edges or tips of the florets differing from the general or ground colour, then the relative 'position of the colours determines whether a bloom is a fancy flower or otherwise. Thus a white, yellow, or any pale variety, edged, tipped, or laced with a dark colour, after the manner of the Picotee, is denominated simply an edged, tipped, or laced Dahlia; but "when this disposition of colours is reversedâ , when the florets of a dark flower are tipped with a light colourâthe variety so marked is termed a tipped Fancy Dahlia. But of late years Show and Fancy Dahlias have approximated so closely' together, that it will soon be difficult to set up an intelligible distinction between them. The Bedding Dahlias are dwarfed free branch- ing varieties, flowering freely, and bearing their flowers well above the foliage upon erect stems. The Bouquet varieties are also known as Pompon Dahlias: they have quite small and very double flowers ; they are produced with wonderful freedom, and last well when used in a cut state. Some are of rather tall, some of quite dwarf growth. The Single varieties being now so popular, are too well known to need description, and numerous group. they are now a very. Single Striped Dahlia (Union Jack). Culture of the
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