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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

■ ! ' It ia paid .that>; tjie dahlia, ; after. haying beau " junf ashionable" for' many; years, has of late again gained many friends, who will, the ; M Mall Qaiistte thiriks/be interested to learii that this flower might ; this ! year celebrate the centenary of its introduction into Europe. - In '1871' ; tKe ! Spaniard; Vihbettt; Cervantes "hew;plant, iri Mexico with small red,'violet, or ..orange flowers around a large yellow centre; growing on 0; long thin stalk. Be .. sent a specimen to Senor Bavanilles, the director ; of .the bo-; tanical garden's at Madrid! who gave the flower its present name." From Spain the dahlia was exported all over_ Europe, and came to England at the beginning of the present oentury. For the first 30 years it was cultivated in England in a greater variety than in ahy.other.country, but. later on Germany, arid especially the town of Kostritz; has taken the tot place in the culturo of;dahlias. '

An amusing story is related of M. Dufaure/ one of the representatives ,who' were seized on the'eve of a Frenoh coup d'etat' and imprisoned in Fort Valdrien. . His wife gave bitth.to a son and heir a-few minutes.after, his capture, and next day he asked and obtained from the Minister a releaso -for four j hours on parole, in order that he might visit bis wife. Punctually to the moment he returned to his' prison, but was refused admission, He hurried baok to the office of De Moray for the necessary order, but was told it would not be granted. " You are free," said the Minister," your liberty gives us cause for ho uneasiness,; antf I decline to order your re-arrest." "But I .wish to rejoin my companions, and • I will accept no favour at the hands' of the Government.De Moray was obdurate, and bowed out the disappointed solicitor for imprisonment who werided his way sadly in the direction of his own homo, mentally registering a .vqw,_ that if he were inoarceratod again.for a political ofleneo. nothing should iiuluoe him to ask a seoond time for release onparolo.. '

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