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cued, to become one of the most admired classes. 



Late tulips were themselves divided some three 

 hundred years ago into four classes breeders or 

 self-flowers, that is to say, all of one color : bizarres, 

 bybloemens and roses. A peculiarity of tulips is 

 that in cultivation a seedling blooming for the first 

 time is generally self-colored; then, after a few 

 years they have been known to wait three dec- 

 ades there will be a change to a feathered state. 

 The lower part of the petals remains as before, 

 but there will be marginal pencilling and wide and 

 narrow stripes or blotches. Bizarres are the ones 

 with yellow bases and markings of red, maroon 

 and brownish shades ; bybloemens are white, marked 

 with purples that grade to what is called black, 

 and roses are white with many shades of pink 

 and red markings. 



From this race has come a comparatively new 

 one, the Darwin, which some amateurs regard as 

 the finest of all. Certainly it is a noble race, well 

 calculated to send into ecstasies of delight any 

 one who has seen an exhibition of the star va- 

 rieties say twenty-five specimens of each, mag- 

 nificent in form and color and the stems more than 

 two feet long. The Darwins are selfs, or nearly 

 so; some of them are shaded, shot or edged with 

 another tone and the centre may be white, blue or 

 black. No tulip colors are more exquisite. 



When the Darwins "break" into a lasting varie- 

 gation they are known as Rembrandts. These are 

 very strikingly blotched, striped or flamed and vie 



