Colour and stems ; the latter have, as a rule, larger and looser flowers, 



Grouping with long-pointed petals, 3^ inches in length, frequently 



of Tulips vei 7 sweet scented, and their stalks are often not strong 



enough to support the large flowers without bending slightly. 



The ring of colour at the base of the petals is an additional 



beauty; copper pinks will be found to have a cool green 



eye, and rose pinks a peacock, deep blue, or a clear white, while 



some yellows, like Ixloides, are touched with black. 



Unlike Daffodils the other chief spring flowers which 

 confine themselves to all shades from cream to orange, Tulips 

 may be used to carry out almost any scheme of colour. They 

 may give delicate, low-toned effects, or the most brilliant, 

 according to the taste of the garden painter, but this diversity 

 of colour makes it all the more necessary to be careful in 

 selecting the varieties. The sketches at Wisley, though 

 painted from Tulips grown only in stiff lines to try their 

 special qualities, show what a brilliant blaze of scarlet and 

 crimson may be obtained, or how telling a contrast of cool deep 

 mauves and rich purples. 



By selection of the varieties, and skilful grouping with 

 other plants, their beauty can be greatly enhanced. There are 

 wonderful shades of salmon and copper pink, as in Inglescombe 

 Pink and Hobbema, which are exquisite with the creamy ViteUina^ 

 or with such a dark bronze as Sultan. The two former are 

 also beautiful with the cool blue mauves and purples, but if 

 placed near a red mauve the beauty of all is spoilt. There are 

 lovely rose pinks which blend also with purples and bronzes, 

 but need to be separated from the copper pinks. I prefer to 

 divide the former into three groups, soft pinks with petals 

 flushed from cream to shaded rose, such as Suzon, the brighter 



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