gg A FEW WORDS TO TULIP-GROWERS. 



size above named, plants raised from cuttings in this country arc 

 found to bloom when quite small. It is a trailing, perennial shrub, 

 branching numerously. It strikes very freely from cuttings, and 

 grows rapidly. It is a very interesting plant, whether allowed to 

 trail or secured upright to a stake or trellis. It deserves a place 

 wherever it can he grown. 



ARTICLE II. 



A FEW WORDS TO THE AMATEUR TULIP-GROWERS WHO 

 READ THE CABINET. 



by mr. william harrison, secretary to the felton florists' society. 



Gentlemen, 



As our Tulip beds are again fast approaching their gay perfection, 

 and as the old established grower will soon again have another op- 

 portunity of inspecting his old favourites, and the younger growers 

 the pleasure of inspecting and criticising their newly-imported va- 

 rieties, perhaps you will excuse me if I again remind you of the great 

 importance of taking correct notes of the properties of your best 

 varieties, and of the great benefits you would confer upon the cause 

 of Floriculture by furnishing accurate " Descriptive Catalogues " of 

 the principal varieties grown in your respective neighbourhoods. This 

 seems to me to be a subject of so much importance to the Tulip- 

 grower, that I trust you will excuse me for again bringing the subject 

 before your notice. I cannot help thinking that every one who wishes 

 well to his brother florists will, without any hesitation, come forward 

 and furnish his mite of information on so interesting a subject ; and 

 I take this opportunity of saying, that I think the thanks of all Tulip 

 fanciers are especially due to Mr. John Slater of Manchester, and 

 " A Warrington Correspondent," for the readiness with which they 

 adopted my suggestion last summer and came forward to furnish the 

 catalogues which appeared at pages 206 and 272 of last year's Ca- 

 binet. These catalogues throw more light on the properties of the 

 Tulips mentioned in them than all the articles put together that I 

 have seen in former volumes of the Cabinet and other periodicals ; 

 and it now remains entirely with yourselves to elucidate the subject 

 yet further, for Mr. Slater truly observes that " the cataloguing of 

 Tulips will take more than one season to accomplish it." 



