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the greenhouse during winter for planting out in summer, 

 where they thrive in hot, diy situations. T. percgrinum is 

 the canary-bird flower, and thrives well in the border in sum- 

 mer, producing its yellow, curiously-shaped flowers profusely. 



T. Tom Thumb is a fine variety of T. majics^ forming a clump ; 

 flowers bright-yellow; hybrid; 1859. There are many others 

 of this type. 



Hardy Annuals. — T. majtcs (greater) ; 6 feet ; flowers or- 

 ange-yellow, in July; Peru; 1686. T. majus atrosangiihicum 

 (dark-red) ; 3 feet ; flowers dark-red, in August ; Peru. T. mi- 

 nus (smaller) ; i foot ; flowers orange and yellow, in August ; 

 Peru; 1596. T. peregrimim (canary-bird flower); 6 feet; 

 flowers yellow, in September ; New Grenada ; 18 10. 



Trumpet-Flower. See Bignonia and Tecoma. 



Tuberose. See Polianthes. 



TuLiPA. Tulip. [Liliaceas.] Hardy and very showy 

 bulbs. The variegated Tulips of the gardens are the pro- 

 geny of T. Gesneriana. The bulbs are planted in October 

 or November, and bloom in jSIay. They grow in nothing 

 so well as in plain, good, sandy loam, taken from a pasture 

 with the turf rotted in it ; and it is the custom to dig out 

 the bed from two to three feet deep, that this soil may 

 be placed therein. They are planted six inches apart, the 

 bed being four feet wide, and containing seven flowers 

 across. The tallest flowers, which are known well to the 

 fanciers, are planted in the centre row ; those a little shorter, 

 in the rows next to the middle ; and the shortest, outside : 

 so that the tulip-bed when in flower looks like a bank of 

 bloom. The small offsets are planted in separate beds, un- 

 til they grow large enough to plant in the principal beds. 

 They are raised from seed to produce new varieties, and 

 they multiply by offsets. 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 



