ON THE CULTIVATION OP TULIPS. 



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These seven(y-two prizes were selected from nearly five thousand 

 flowers, and were in the main good blooms, but here and there a fault 

 miglit easily be detected, of which a word or two hereafter. 



Gibbon's Sable Monarch, Princess Royal, Maid of Orleans, Pilot, 

 Van Amburg, Sir H. Pottinger, Dixon's Virginia, and Slater's Mayor 

 of Manchester are all new northern flowers, and I believe Naylor's 

 Edgar and Turner's Lord Denman. Gibbon's Sable Monarch is a 

 fine deep-feathered byblomen, good cup and clean base; his Princess 

 Royal a fine flamed byblomen, perfectly clean ; his Maid of Orleans a 

 fine byblomen, broke from the same breeder with a pure bottom ; his 

 Pilot is a flamed bizard, good cup and very pure ; liis Van Amburg 

 a flamed bizard, good cup and substance, a good round petal, it opens 

 creamy, but soon clears out, and is a good thing ; all these I can re- 

 commend to you (indeed you must have them), having" seen them, 

 thougii not in their best state, owing to tlie season not having been so 

 propitious as could have been^wished ; tlie traits in their character fore- 

 tell their future usefulness. In a conversation I liad with the raiser, 

 who introduced himself to me while going round the tables of blooms, 

 I find they are to be procured at a very reasonable rate, much lower 

 than new Tulips are generally sold at, owing to the breeders having 

 been for some years sold out and in a great many hands. Tiiere are a 

 quantity of this person's seedlings that liave been broke, viz., Salvator, 



