Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste - Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Rural Embellishments, Pomology, Floriculture, and All Subjects of Rural Life, Literature, Art, and Taste; January to December, 1871 #263202

Our lady readers may desire to plant some good dahlia roots the coming spring. Here is a good selection of twenty-four varieties, sufficient to form a good beginning for any amateur. In our cool fall months the dahlia is our most showy flower, and we esteem it worthy of a place in every flower garden. By some it is considered too gross and coarse, but it has never appeared so to our tastes. It may lack the delicate beauty of the rose, and also its exquisite fragrance, yet its showy bloom and free, flowering habit, with comeliness of plant, are great arguments in its favor.