42 REMARKS ON AN ARTICLE 



ground streaked with violet, &c. ; whereas Tulips are more properly 

 divided into three classes: 1. Hoses: white grounds, with rose or 

 cherry colour flame, or feather ; 2. Byblomens : white grounds, with 

 violet or purple flame, or feather ; 3. Bizards : yellow grounds, with 

 chocolate, dark brown, and nearly black flame, or feather. They are 

 denominated flamed Roses, Byblomens, Bizards, when the stripes of 

 colour descend boldly from the top edges of the petals two-thirds of 

 the way down the middle toward the bottom ; and are called fea- 

 thered Roses, Byblomens, Bizards, when the colouring is finely 

 pencilled round the margin of the petals ; the centre and base of 

 each petal being pure ground colour, either of white or yellow. 



Secondly ; Mr. F. says, " Bizards were esteemed forty or fifty years 

 back, but are looked on less favourably at present." This is incor- 

 rect, if applied to cultivators in this country. Who has ever grown 

 or even seen a Polyphemus, or Strong's King, Shakspeare, Mar- 

 celhis, Bolivar, and fifty others might be named, that would think 

 less favourably of the class of Bizards than of the finest that can be 

 selected from the other two classes ? The fact is, that in every good 

 bed of Tulips in England, those having yellow grounds constitute at 

 least one-third of the number, and several amateurs of note grow two- 

 fifths bizards, and think their beds look richer, and are improved 

 by it. Varieties possessing every requisite qualification for exhibi- 

 tion are found as numerous, if not more abundant, in this class than 

 in the other two. 



Thirdly; the next statement I shall notice is — "The Tulips 

 called Dutch are the only ones now admitted into a choice collection, 

 and of these there are now about 700 good varieties." This may be 

 correct if applied to the Continent, but the " choice collections " here, 

 are formed by the possession of flowers that have been raised from 

 seed and broken into colour, by the late Mr. Clarice of Croydon, and 

 Messrs. Lawrence, Rutley, Goldham, Williams, Middlecott, James, 

 Walker, and others. I have known some hundreds of Dutch Tulips 

 with names sent over, and cultivated here for " good varieties " one 

 season, and then discarded * by growers near the metropolis, and in 



* The writer would not intimate here that all Dutch sorts are valueless, for 

 Louis XVI., Ambassador, Old Catafalque, Comte de Vergennes, &c. &c. are of 

 Dutch origin; but the hundreds of sorts imported at '• moderate prices" are 

 dear at any price : they are not worth the carriage across the water. 



