TULIPA. 



E her with the little wavy-leaved dwarf star-Tulip of blood-scarlet, 

 called T. UnifoHa, and the 6-inch taller butter-belled or pale citron T. 

 batali ; hing of that harbing i T. Kaufrnanniana, 



which sits almost close on the bare earth in wi< -:;lies of flui 



rose and pearl and salmon and cream in the early morning of the year, 

 as if they were evoked memory springing through the soil, of some 

 summer sunset of long ago on far-off unforgotten snows. T. Hageri 

 quickly increases into a close and many-stemmed clump with masses 

 of long and very narrow bright-green rather wavy-edged leaves 

 lying straight outstretched upon the ground ; while from the clump 

 a number of fat 6-inch stems, each carrying a single bold and 

 erect little starry bell, which in the type is of a rather blunted fire- 

 copper-colour outside, though scarlet and black-blotched within; but, if 

 you import your bulbs from Parnes, where it grows with T. orphanidea, 

 they may often give you strange breaks of the most ravishing sunset- 

 rose or irradiated apricot, of a rich and melting purity unparalleled 

 for tender richness in the race. Catalogues offer a form called 

 T. Hageri nitons, which is a more flaming variety of the species indeed, 

 but is no relation to these last. 



little beauty of only 3 or 4 inches, and specially free 

 with its flowers, which are wide bells of a uniform rosy-purple within 

 and without, blotched with black at the base. The leaves are narrow- 

 oval, sickle-twisted and outspread upon the earth, and the plant may 

 be found high up in clayey places in the Alps of the Cilician Taurus. 

 T. Lownei continues the beautiful dwarf tradition of the group into 

 b we are now come. It is only 3 inches high or so, and very free, 

 no less than the last, with its gaping bells, beside the snows of Lebanon 

 and Hermon. It has, in fact, all the look and habit of the last, but 

 the flowers are of soft whitish tone inside, and the reverse of the three 

 outer segments is darker in tone of purple than the purple reverse of 

 the three inner ones, which, with the white inner surface of the bell, 

 gives great richness and variety to the little flowers., springing three or 

 four from one bulb in April. 



T. bithynica is the species called in gardens T. acuminata and 

 T. cornuta. It stands near T. pulcheUa in general habit, but departs 

 uom it wholly for the worse, being a plant of some 10 inches or a foot, 

 with very long pointed tails to all the flower-segments, which are dull 

 red outside and scarlet within, brave and erect in April and 



This is found beside tl Trans aucaeda, Cadmus of 



.. and is the T. tur-: • authorities, but not the true 



T. turcica, Roth., which is a form of T. syhestris — unless indeed it bo, 

 according ch, a gard< pment of this same T. bithynica. 



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