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HORTICULTURE 



May 24, 1913 



MAY FLOWERING TULIPS. 



Seedsmen wlio sell spring-blooming 

 bulbs will tell you that no class of 

 bulbs has grown in popularity and 

 demand within the last few years as 

 the late or May-flowering tulips. The 

 old-time "breeders" and "cottage" 

 tulips, stately and impressive, have 

 now been reinforced by the new races 

 of "Darwins!" and "Rembrandts" and, 

 once seen, the subtle infatuation of 

 the late-May tulip parade becomes ir- 

 resistible. The weird pastel color 

 tints, at first regarded with indiffer- 

 ence by one long familiarized with 

 the gaudy splendor of the "single 

 earlies," grow on acquaintance, and 

 one soon becomes a devotee. These 

 wonderful flowers are objects to be 

 admired individually. Poised on tall 

 stems. 18 to 30 inches, they demand 

 inspection flower by flower. Then 

 that which at a distance was but a 

 misty grey, dull tawny buff or slaty 

 blue, assumes an irresistible blending 

 of pure tones and, looking into the 

 heart of the half-opened flower, the 

 very atmosphere seems all illumined 

 with effulgent color. Yet in mixed 

 mass planting these flowers have a 

 harmonizing quality rarely found in 

 any promiscuous tulip planting and 

 the varieties may be used indiscrimi- 

 nately without any fear of color dis- 

 cordance or clash. 



We had the pleasure, a few days 

 ago, of viewing a very choice collec- 

 tion of these May-flowering tulips in 

 which are represented all the classes 

 as well as many of the finer tulip 

 "species," at the trial gardens of 

 Chester Jay Hunt at Montclair, N. J. 

 The plantations are artistically ar- 

 ranged and have the advantage of a 

 superb setting and background of 

 garden trees and ornamental shrub- 

 bery and a stroll among them in com- 

 pany of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, both of 

 whom are evidently infatuated with 

 their work, is a delightful privilege. 

 We have noted below a few of the 

 varieties that impressed us most 

 strongly among the several hundred 

 named sorts there shown. Some of 

 those here mentioned are not yet on 

 sale, but the majority of them may 

 be procured from any of the general 

 seed houses represented in HoRTi- 

 cuLTtniE's advertising columns and 

 there are, of course, many other varie- 

 ties, equally desirable, of which lack 

 of space prevents mention at this 

 time: 



Velvet King: dark maroon purple, often 

 carrying an extra petal or two: a fine 

 forcing flower. 



Bronze Queen (Breeder) syn. Biscuit; 

 Clio; butt, golden tironze Inside; a desir- 

 able forcer. 



Grand Monarcli (Darwin); violet purple, 

 with white centre. 



Alice; mahogany edged with bronzy yel- 

 low. . ,., 



Whistler (Darwin) ; maroon crimson, witn 

 blue base. . . , , 



King Harold (Darwin); glowing ox-blood 



red 



Professor Rauwenhof (Darwin) ; cherry- 

 rose with salmon glow inside. 



Fulgens (Cottage) ; a glorious crimson, 

 with white eye. 



Sunset (Darwin); yellow, recurving 

 petals; preferable to Golden Crown. 



Fawn (Cottage); opalescent pink and 

 nearlv fawn overlaid; a lovely thing. 



Ingleseombe Tellow (Cottage): canary 

 yellow; known abroad as the Yellow Dar- 



^ Miss Willmott (Cottage): primrose petals 

 pointed and recurving; a distinct form and 

 good late forcer. 



Rosy Gem (Rembrandt); rosy-lilac striped 

 carmine and feathered white. 



Caracalla (Rembrandt)- white, flamed 

 and feathered carmine. 



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C'arinata Rubra (Species); dark crimson, 

 each petal with a central stripe of apple 

 green; a very unusual combination. 



Avis Kenuicott (Cottage); chrome yellow 

 with black base; very long petals. This 

 variety is said to have originated in an old 

 American garden and after being discov- 

 ered it was^ taken to Holland and there ex- 

 ploited. 



Zomerschoon (Darwin); apricot rose, 

 tlaked white; said to be 250 years old, but 

 yet very scarce. 



Marconi; dark violet purple; enormous 

 flower. „ , , 



Louis XIV (Breeder); dark purple, flushed 

 bronze with broad margin of golden brown. 

 ■•The aristocrat of the race."' Very scarce 

 and high. 



Jupiter (Bizarre); flamed and feathered 

 dark maroon. 



Pride of Ingleseombe (Cottage); a soft 

 and dainty misty color. 



Massenet: syn.. The Dove (Darwin); 

 creamy white, flushed pale pink; remark- 

 able blue centre markings; the whitest of 

 the Darwins. 



Semele (Rembrandt); white feathered 

 with rosy lilac, reminding one of old 

 cliintz. . 



Rafael (Darwiui; dark plum: rich and 

 stately. 



•Tubilee (Darwin): blue purple: a Krelagc 

 novelty. 



Walter T. Ware (Cottage); the deepest 

 and richest yellow among late tulips; petals 

 pointed and reflexing. 



Viking (Darwin); lustrous dark purple 

 with lavender edge. 



La Fiancee (Darwin); old rose, petals 

 paler at edge. 



Remembrance (Darwin); pale slaty purple 

 with silvery margin; unique. 



Ilersogin von Hohenberg (Darwin); me- 

 talic violet, edged pale lavender. 



.Tulienne (Rembrandt); white, violet and 

 dull crimson in fantastic blotching. 



Albion (Breeder) ; pale lavender. 



Princess Elizabeth (Darwin); soft 

 pink. 



Judas Macaabeus (Rembrandt) 

 feathered crimson. 



Wallv Moes (Darwin): pale pink with 

 delicate lavender pencilling on edges. 



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Lui'ifer iP.reeder): terra-cotta vermilion. 

 Mr. Hunt has a sport of this strongly 

 marked and feathered with a deeper color. 



satiny 

 violet, 



Washington, N. J., May 19, 1913. 

 Our two advs. have surely paid us 

 well. We have received several large 

 orders who have mentioned HORTI- 

 CULTURE and probably many who 

 did read our advs. in HORTICUL- 

 TURE have failed to give credit. 



ALONZO J. BRYAN. 



