374 BUECK'S XEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



beautifully broken with shades of purple and a variety 

 of colors. They are from different breeders. 



Bizarres, from the French, odd, or irregular. Ground 

 yellow ; from different breeders, and broken with a va- 

 riety of colors. 



Paroquets, or Parrot Tulips. The edges of the petals 

 are fringed, colors, brilliant crimson and yellow, with 

 shades of bright green ; but still they are held in no sort 

 of esteem among florists." 



Double. These are of various brilliant red, yellow, 

 and mixed colors, but, like many other double flowers, 

 are deemed monsters, and not appreciated by flower fan- 

 ciers, although they have an elegant appearance, from 

 their upright, tall, and firm stems, and crowns of large, 

 peony-shaped flowers ; and, when scattered with the Par- 

 rot Tulips among the small shrubs and other plants, in 

 the borders of avenues and walks, or planted out in 

 separate beds, they have a pleasing effect. 



Breeders are such as have been procured from the seed, 

 and consist of one color, which is red, purple, violet, gray, 

 brown, black, yellow, or some other individual color, 

 without any sort of variation. These are cultivated in a 

 rather poor and dry soil, and become broken or variegat- 

 ed, in from one to twenty years, and produce new varie- 

 ties ; but so uncertain is the prospect of a favorable re- 

 sult, that but few persons are willing to make the experi- 

 ment, by raising Tulips from seed, as probably not one 

 in a thousand, after so many years of patient cultivation, 

 would exhibit anything remarkable or new. For this 

 reason, a new and superb Tulip commands a high price 

 at the present time in Europe. 



When a Tulip has broken, the colors are unchangeable, 

 when properly managed, and it is perpetuated by offsets 

 from the parent bulb. Tulips become deteriorated by 

 improper culture, by feeding them too highly with stimu- 



