124 THE TULIP. 
NeEMoPHILA MACULATA.—This new species we recently figured ; it 
blooms very freely, grows rapidly, and its lovely flowers please all 
who see it. It ought to be in every flower garden. Its well-defined 
rich violet-blue spots produce a beautiful contrast with the white ground. 
AzALEas.—The finest kinds at the exhibition at Chiswick, Royal 
Botanic, and the Royal South London shows are the following ; any 
person desirous of possessing the best may rely on their being such :— 
A. variegata, A. exquisita, A. optimata, A. macrantha purpurea, A. 
Bianca, A. Broughtonia, A. delicata, A. Gledstannia, and A. sinensis. 
Numerous others were shown, as will be seen in the account in this 
Number ; but the above were much superior to the others, having finer 
form, and the colours so very distinet in contrast with each other. 
We noticed in our May Number a variety, named the Duke of Wel- 
lington. ‘This ought to be in every collection. ‘The A. sinensis has 
flowers of a bright yellow colour, the upper part slightly spotted. 
THE TU Lurr. 
BY A CELEBRATED GROWER ON THE CONTINENT, 
I am glad to notice that this lovely flower has a share of attention 
given it in the pages of your Magazine. The florists of Great Britain 
have long been celebrated for growing it in great perfection, but not 
equal to what is done by others on the Continent. I have devoted 
many years to its cultivation, on a scale more extensive than any florist 
in your country; and as the period is arrived when the numerous 
varieties of this admired favourite are displaying their unrivalled 
beauties, I forward for insertion in your Magazine some remarks upon 
its history, descriptive properties, and the mode of culture we most 
successfully pursue. 
The Tulip grows naturally on the Savoy mountains, and in the 
neighbourhood of Nice. It furnishes varieties, of which the two prin- 
cipal are, first, Bizarres ; and, second, those on a white ground. ‘The 
first are those which have a yellow tinge, mingled with other colours, 
but entirely exclude white. 
They were in great esteem forty or fifty years back, but are looked 
on less favourably at present. Many persons, however, cultivate them 
still, to form a contrast, by their dark shades of colour, with those on 
a white ground. ‘he last-named kinds, on the contrary, have not the 
slightest trace of yellow. Sometimes, indeed, at the moment of blow- 
ing, a few exhibit a pale shade of yellow; but the rays of the sun soon 
render them of a pure white. ‘These are again subdivided into two 
classes: the first into tulips, on a white ground, streaked with red, 
pink, crimson, &e. ; and, secondly, those on a white ground, streaked 
with violet, amaranth, purple, lilac, &e. The Tulips, commonly called 
Dutch, are the only ones now admitted into a choice collection, and of 
these there are about nine hundred good varieties. 
In order to be admitted into this privileged class, certain conditions 
have been laid down by lovers of the flower, which the Tulip should 
fulfil, and to fail in even a single regulation is sufficient to cause it to 
be rejected.’ ,'These conditions are, first, regularity of form ; secondly, 
