ON THE CULTIVATION OF TULIPS. 



105 



whicli confirmed tlie old adage, " Out of tlie frying-pan into the fire." 

 I was told some time since by an old, extensive, and good cultivator 

 in the west of England, that he had not changed the mould of his 

 Tulip-beds for twenty years. His garden-ground was what was 

 usually termed stiff; and every year after his bulbs were taken up he 

 covered iiis beds with a coating of fresh cow-dung, which in the course 

 of the summer was well incorporated with his stiff' stuff, and from my 

 own knowlerlije he never iiati to find fault with his blooms. I have 

 now nearlj-^ dotie with experiments. One more for your guidance. If 

 before your buds burst into bloom, you may see some that bid fair to 

 be too heavy in colour, you may tie the stem to a stick, and about 

 three inches from the bloom, with a sharp penknife cut a slit about 

 two inches in lengtli through tlie middle of the stem ; it will draw off 

 the sap from tlie bloom, which will greatly conduce to the bloom 

 coming clean and finely marked. I think for this time I have said 

 enough, and shall attend to your other questions in my next. 



Respectfully yours, 

 Manchester. Dahl. 



List of Byhlomens that have gained Prizes in the North in the last 



Three Years. 



Bienfait . 

 Ambassador . 

 Gaystitta . 

 Buckley's Beauty 

 Grotius . 

 Buckley's 46 , 

 Wolstenholm's Byb. 

 Beguet 

 Fair Flora 

 Violet Winner . 

 La Mere Brune . 

 Czarina, or Empress 

 Lancashire Hero 



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"Washington 

 Regina 



Mungo 

 Countess of Flanders 

 Due de Bourdeaux 

 Grand Financier. 

 Lady Durham 

 Mai t re Partoute . 

 Sportsman 

 Lysander Noir . 

 Bell's Violet . . 

 Sang de Bocuf 

 Bellona . 

 Eclipse . 

 Lilliard . 

 Incomparable Virpo 



ussia 



It . 



120 

 26 



1 

 lo 

 16 



1 



2 

 86 



2 

 20 



4 

 13 



7 

 40 



1 

 16 



1 

 12 



1 



2 

 18 



2 



1 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 10 

 35 



Violet (Waller's) . . 

 Alexander Magnus . , 



Daphne 



Sable Rex .... 

 Violet Fond Noir . 



Tout 



Pyramid of Egypt . 



La Belle Narene 



Ogden's Seedlings 



Peai'son's Alexander 



Roi de Siam 29 



34 

 15 



1 

 17 

 20 

 26 



4 

 54 



1 



1 



Atlas . 



David 



Queen Charlotte . . . . 

 Prince Eli . . . . . 

 Duchess de Modena , . . 

 Gad's Magnificent . . . 



Demoroe 



Sampson 



Maid of Orleans (Gibbons's) 

 Gibbons's Grace Darling 



Great Western 



Van Amburgh 



• Criterion . . . . 



Prince Albert . . . 



Venus 



. Sir Henry Pottinger . 



Lady Flora Hastings . 



Princess Charlotte . 



3 

 4 



13 

 6 

 1 



11 

 4 

 1 



12 

 6 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 5 

 1 

 1 

 6 



13 



