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keep them living ; and then they are suddenly 

 transported to the richest soil, abounding- with 

 food and moisture. Sometimes, to change the 

 climate effectually, florists send their tulips to 

 be grown for a year or two twenty miles or 

 more from the place where they were raised, and 

 then they are brought back to their natiYe air. 

 This laborious and unscientific mode of pro- 

 ceeding is, however, now rapidly giving place 

 to a proper method of hybridising ; after which 

 the young bulbs are brought forward bv means 

 of bottom heat, water, and frequent sniffings, 

 so as to flower and break the second or third 

 season. Florists' tulips are generally divided 

 into four tribe?, viz. — 1. Bizarres, which have 

 yellow grounds shaded with dark red or purple, 

 and which are subdivided into flamed, in which 

 the red or purple is in a broad stripe or band, 

 rising from the bottom of the petal ; and 

 feathered, in which the dark colour forms a 

 marginal edging to the petals, descending into 

 them in various little delicate feathery veins : 

 2. Byblcemens, having white grounds, shaded 

 with violet or dark purple, and also subdivided 

 into flamed and feathered : 3. Roses, havinc 

 white grounds, shaded with rose-colourorcherry- 

 red, and divided into flamed and feathered : and, 

 4. Selfs, beino- either a pure white or yellow. In 

 addition to these, the French have Baguettes, 

 very tall-stemmed tulips, the flowers of which 

 are white, striped with dark brownish red ; 

 Baguettes Rio-auts, which resemble the former, 

 but have shorter stems and larger flowers ; and 

 Flamands, which are nearly the same as Bybloe- 

 mens. The Dutch have also a kind they call 



