176 WILD FLOWERS OF 



and may be obtained, most likely, from all commer- 

 cial florists " to order" by any person anxious for 



initiation in Tulipology. 



,. s. d, 



Rose Brilliants 2 2 



Ponceau Tres Blanc (Dutch) 2 10 



Julianna 5 5 



Grand Rose Imperial 10 10 



Pompe Funebre 1010 



Lac (true) 1515 



Pandora 21 



Shakspeare 21 



Parmegiano 50 



Groom's King William IV 50 



In this list 50. appears as the maximum price, but 

 still purer or rarer gems may be had higher ; for a 

 tulipomauiacal friend, whose name often appeared in 

 the records of horticultural shows, once told us he had 

 been asked 70. for " Fanny Kemble," and that there 

 were a few bulbs that mounted up in the scale even 

 to 150 ; which I should think with DIOGENES of old 

 though on a different matter, was paying rather too dear 

 for repentance ! It must be observed, however, that 

 some amount of time and trouble is necessary to raise 

 tulips from seed, the only way to get new varieties of 

 value, and that numerous efforts may be made before 

 a really superior flower worth notice can be obtained. 

 Indeed the manufacture of " florists' flowers" is an 

 affair out of the genuine pale of botanical research, 

 and not unfrequently forces nature and all parties 

 concerned in the operation of bringing out something 

 new, to be very much out of humour; for bickerings, 

 jealousies, and disputes with rival growers generally 

 contrive to come out at the sa/ine time, with the new 

 and too highly laudated bloom. Field Botanists in- 



