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outside ; so that the Tulip-bed, when in iiower, looks like a 

 hank of bloom. The small offsets are planted in separate 

 beds until they grow large enough to plant in the principal 

 beds. They are raised from seed to produce new varieties, 

 and they multiply by offsets, which come of themselves. The 

 seeds may be sown in pans or wide-mouthed pots in the early 

 spring or the autumn, and placed in a garden frame : they 

 will come up, and about June turn yellow^ and die down, but 

 little bulbs w'ill have formed. Some take them up and replant 

 them, but if they are not too thick they may be left until the 

 next year. They will be live or six years before they bloom, 

 and then perhaps only show one colour, instead of being 

 striped ; they are then called breeders, and ma}^ bloom of self- 

 colours some years before they break into stripes. They are 

 an imposing flower, and w hen very good will bear a high price 

 until the sort is widely propagated. The early Tulips are 

 becoming numerous, rich in their varied colours, and truly 

 valuable as spring flowers. Thirty or forty varieties may be 

 found sufficiently distinct to be seen at a distance, but they 

 are only border flowers. The Van Thol Tulip, a distinct 

 early sort, is the T. suaveolens : this blooms naturally in April, 

 and is very well adapted for forcing even much earlier than 

 this. Few of the other species are cultivated except as 

 curiosities. 



TUTSAN. See Andeos.emum. 



TWEEDIA. [Asclepiadaceas.] Greenhouse perennial 

 twiners, with neat pretty fiowers. They are raised from cut- 

 tings in sand under a bell-glass, with a little bottom heat. 

 When the cuttings have struck root they should be potted 

 in three-inch pots, in a compost of two parts sandy loam and 

 one part turfy peat, with proper drainage, made with broken 

 potsherds one-fourth up the pot. The pots may be placed 

 out of doors in the summer time in the shade, where their 

 roots cannot strike through into the ground. The plants 

 must be topped to make them throw out lateral shoots, and 

 when the first pots are full of roots they may be planted in 

 pots eight inches across, and the proposed trellis or support 

 on which they are to grow may be put to them : an upright 

 pillar is as good as anything, formed of wire, and the plant 

 should be trained round and round it. The bloom will come 



