TUBEROSE—TULIP, 281 
unable to support themselves. The leaves do not appear 
until the vines are several feet in length. The flowers 
are very showy, and produced in the greatest profusion. 
Half a dozen tubers, planted at the end of the center 
bench of a greenhouse, will present a mass of bloom sev- 
eral feet square. This is the only one of the class that 
is worthy of cultivation, and it should always be seen in 
the conservatory. 
TUBEROSE. 
See Polianthes Page 258. 
TULIP. 
Tulipa. 
Few plants show so plainly the florists’ skill in selec- 
tion and cross-fertilization as the Tulip. Like the Glad- 
iolus, it has been improved in nearly every respect, with- 
out losing the respect of the systematic botanist. It is 
true that in the garden Tulips there are a few double 
forms, ‘‘vegetable monsters,” as Linneus termed all 
double flowers; but they are, relatively, few, and the 
taste for them is on the decline rather than on the in- 
crease. Among the true admirers of the Tulip the 
double forms meet with but little favor; where flowers 
are grown simply to show a mass of color, without re- 
gard to form or structure, as in our public parks, the 
double Tulips answer a very good purpose, because they 
are showy, and last longer than the single forms. As 
flowers begin to be appreciated for their intrinsic worth, 
when we look into them rather than at them, when we 
see all their parts and their wonderful adaptation to each 
other, the beautiful necessity there is for each, our 
respect for double forms will be lost in our admiration 
for the single: flower, perfect in all its parts as it was 
when it first beautified the earth, and there was none to 
admire other than the Power that gave it. 
