BULBS 273 



E. Best Varieties for Forcing. The following bulbs are good 

 varieties for forcing. A few kinds (see Group b) will flower if kept 

 in bowls of water with enough pebbles to hold them upright. 



a. Forcing in soil. 



Tulips — early single: 

 Due Van Tholl (various colours) 

 Duchesse de Parma (crimson with yellow 



margin) 

 Chrysolora (yellow) 

 Cottage Maid (pink) 

 Flamingo (pink) 

 Vermilion Brilliant (scarlet) 

 Joost van Vondel (striped, red and white) 

 Proserpine (deep rose with metallic petals) 



Medium-flowering tulips: 

 Thomas Moore (orange) 

 Yellow Prince (yellow) 

 White Swan (white) 

 Rose Grisdelin (pink) 

 Pottebakker (scarlet, yellow, and white) 

 Couleur Cardinal (dark crimson) 



Double tulips for forcing: 

 Boule de Neige (white) 

 Murillo (pink) 

 Crown of* Gold (yellow) 

 Imperator Rubrorum (scarlet) 



Cottage Tulips: 

 Bouton d'Or (chrome yellow) 

 Carnation (white margined carmine) 

 Elegans alba (creamy white) 

 Fairy Queen (rosy lilac) 

 Inglescombe Pink (soft rosy pink) 

 La Candeur (silvery white) 

 Striped Beauty (silvery rose) 

 Vitellina (primrose to creamy white) 



Darwin Tulips: 



For late February or early March: 

 Bartigon (deep red) 

 Pride of Haarlem (purple rose) 

 William Copeland (lavender) 

 William Pitt (dark red) 

 Rev. H. Ewbank (light lavender) 



For late March and early April: 

 All names in above 

 Dream (dark lilac) 

 Europe (vivid red) 

 Massachusetts (silvery pink) 

 White Queen (white, flushed pink) 

 Harry Veitch (brown red) 

 Princess Elizabeth (deep pink) 



Psyche (pink) 



Sieraad van Flora (vivid rose) 

 Farnecombe Sanders (fiery scarlet) 

 Mme. Krelage (dark pink) 



For late April or early May: 

 Clara Butt (shell pink) 

 Baronne de la Tonnaye (bright rose) 

 Gretchen (soft pink) 

 Loveliness (bright rose) 

 Nora Ware (lilac) 



Hyacinths {in order of earliness): 

 Garibaldi (deep crimson) 

 Hein Roozen (white) 

 Lady Derby (rose pink) 

 Yellow Hammer (creamy yellow) 

 Buff" Beauty (pale yellow striped with 



straw) 

 Corregio (white) 

 Count Andrassy (lavender blue) 

 Enchantress (porcelain blue) 

 General de Wet (soft light pink) 

 Pink Perfection (mauve rose) 

 La Grandesse (white) 

 Oranjeboven (pale salmon-tinged rose) 

 King of the Blues (dark blue) 

 Etna (dark rose) 



Large trumpet Narcissi: 

 Emperor 

 Empress 

 Golden Spur 

 Horsfieldi 

 Mme. de Graaff 

 Olympia 

 Silver Spur 

 Victoria 

 W. P. Milner 

 William Goldring 



Medium trumpet narcissi: 

 Sir Watkin 

 Barri conspicuous 

 Poeticus ornatus 

 Sea Gull 

 White Lady 



Double narcissi: 

 Van Sion 

 Orange Phoenix 



