DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF TULIPS. 33 



ARTICLE V. 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF TULIPS. 



BY MR. JOHN SLATBR, FLORIST, PEACOCK HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE, CHEETHAM HILL, 



NEAR MANCHESTER. 



(Continued from page 17, vol. xi.) 



I nAVE now brought my remarks to a close for the present, and 

 should I be spared another season I purpose to make considerable 

 additions to it. In fact I could have swelled this list to a much 

 greater extent had I taken the descriptions of others, but none are 

 inserted but what have been taken down at the moment, and from a 

 bloom in perfection. I had hoped from the care I had taken I should 

 have escaped any attack, but a discarded F. H. S., well known, has 

 thought proper to stigmatize it in toto, from which circumstance I 

 conclude I may justly claim a little space for a few remarks in reply. 



I fear the individual has had too much of the sovereign eyesalve 

 applied to his organs of sight that has brought a film over them which 

 will require rather irritating ointment, or, in vulgar language, which 

 he best understands, blister ointment, to remove it; and by this ope- 

 ration his eyesight will be so weakened that he will be obliged to go 

 to a first-rate optician for a pair of spectacles with pebbles, the clearest 

 and most transparent, that when Tulips are next season in bloom he 

 may be able to soliloquize over his darling Everard, and see also that 

 tinge in Polyphemus which detracts from the merits of every flower 

 except those raised in the south, and the sight of which throws them 

 into hysterics. I think one who has moved, as he boasts of having 

 done, in the first rank of society, would at least have attended to 

 more propriety of behaviour, and at least have kept from falsehood. 

 He never saw me, and I suppose his knowledge of my judgment on 

 Tulips is taken from what I have written thereon, which will not war- 

 rant his statement, that I did not know Roses from Byblomens. If 

 I have termed any Rose a Byblomen, it is Bacchus ; and if he will 

 refer to the descriptive catalogue, he will read that " it is one of that 

 class of flowers which may be shown in either." When young and 

 opening, it is a Rose; and as it ages, assumes a rosy-violet colour, 

 and will then only show as a Byblomen. 



There are Tulips which are difficult to class : take, for instance, 

 Carlo Dolci : what is its colour when in full perfection of bloom ? the 



