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share value, the inevitable crash came, and the Tulip 

 mania ended, bringing ruin to many a Dutch and English 

 home. 



The Dutch or Early-flowering Bedding Tulips are 

 rarely exhibited as cut flowers, although as pot plants 

 they receive due recognition at Spring Shows. From an 

 exhibition point of view the great value of the later 

 Tulips, and chiefly those known as May-flowering or 

 Cottage varieties, and the tall, substantial Darwin Tulips, 

 has not yet been recognised by Flower Show authorities. 

 These, arranged in vases, make a beautiful and effective 

 display, and under careful treatment the blooms keep 

 fresh several days. Wherever Flower Shows are held in 

 the first half of May these fine Tulips should have Classes 

 provided for them. 



Old English, or Florists', Tulips are, for exhibition 

 purposes, classified as Bizarres, Bybloemens, and Roses, 

 and each class is again divided into flamed and feathered 

 varieties. 



BIZARRES are yellow ground flowers marked with 

 red, brown, or purplish black, the markings being either 

 in the form of a flame or vivid shading of colour, or in 

 the form of a feather ; the colour radiating in pencilled 

 lines from the central bar. 



BYBLCEMENS have a white ground, either flamed or 

 feathered with some shade of purple. 



ROSES have also a pure white ground, either famed or 

 feathered with rose or scarlet shades. 



BREEDERS are seedling Tulips. They are self-coloured 

 and very like the Darwin varieties, but the latter appear 

 to have been fixed, whereas a Breeder tulip is a seedling 

 form that has not yet shown its true character. Seed- 

 lings from Old English varieties will produce self-coloured 

 flowers for several successive years, and during that 

 period they are " Breeders " , but when once they give 

 flowers that are Earned or feathered they are said to 



