A Gardener's Notebook

Dazzling Dahlias – 45 in a series – L’Œillet de Chine Royal Dahlia Botanical Print from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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from Revue horticole. 1922

(machine translation)

THE ROYAL CHINESE CARN should be mentioned among the specialists who have still contributed to the composition of this remarkable contribution, MM. Joly, Barnaud, Nigon, Aussel, Dozol, etc. We were happy, in the toasts that we had the honor to make in the name of the jury, during the banquet accompanying each of these exhibitions, to congratulate the coastal horticulturalists for the great effort they had made and the joy that ‘he had known how to bring visits to China did not quite follow the sumptuary revolution of his European counterpart, he was nonetheless the one who followed him more closely in the importance of his improvements. Its practically annual duration did not allow it much and, moreover, its Hours, although large and richly colored, have neither the smoothness nor the value of those of the Florists’ Carnation as cut flowers.

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