The Dahlia: An Early History
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In 1934 Marshall Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, compiled a list of Dahlia cultivars containing more than 14,000 names. This number represents an astonishing average of over 100 newly named cultivars during each of the 143 years since 1791, when dahlias were first brought into cultivation in the gardens of Spain following their arrival from Mexico. Today dahlias are among the most familiar and cherished subjects of gardens in all parts of the globe. Interest in the garden dahlia has, in its brief modern history, generated the founding of dahlia societies on both sides of the Atlantic, with memberships in the thousands; produced an industry with annual revenues in the millions of dollars resulting from the sale and exchange of living plants and seeds; spawned horticultural shows designed exclusively around home-grown and professionally grown dahlias on the local, reigonal, national, and even international levels; and created scores of books and hundreds of published articles covering dahlia history, cultivation, and the classification of the garden forms as well as the more formal taxonomy of the wild species. Despite such intense interest and attention, the history of
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تاریخ انتشار 2006