THE 



VOL. v.] 



JUNE, 1882. 



[No. 6. 



TULIPS 



These beautiful flowering bulbs can 

 be purchased at such moderate prices, 

 and be grown so easily, that it is a 

 wonder that every lover of flowers does 

 not have a large bed of them. Their 

 colors are so varied and brilliant that 

 they make a most gorgeous display 

 when planted in masses ; and they are 

 so hardy and grow so readily in any 

 good garden soil that there is not the 

 slightest dijS&culty in their cultivation. 



The earliest varieties will usually be 

 in bloom in the last days of April, and 

 by planting the sorts that come later, a 

 succession of bloom can be kept up until 

 the first of June. The Due Van Thol 

 tulips (Fig. 1), are the first to bloom. 



Fto. 1.— Dvo Vaw Thoi. Tulip. 

 These are both single and double ; the 

 double are all red with a yellow border. 



the single are of various colors — scarlet, 

 crimson, yellow, white, &c. These all 

 grow about six inches in height, and 

 are very showy. After these come the 

 variety known as the Tournesol (Fig. 2), 



Fio. 2.— DoPBLK Tulip or TocRNK8i)L. 



with very large double flowers, yellow 

 or orange and i-ed, which continue for a 

 long tinio without fading. These are 

 followed by Single Eariy Tulii)s (Fig. 3), 

 of many colors, as red, crimson, violet, 

 purple, yellow ; also many of them 

 very beautifully striped, and others 

 edged with white or yellow or red. 



