can be arranged with them, tones which harmonise or vivid May. 

 contrasts. There is a large colour key to be played on pink- Colour of 

 mauves to rich brown and red purples, and almost black : lilacs Tulips 

 which are called blue, they have so much more blue than red in 

 them : white, palest lemon to clear bright yellow and orange : soft 

 rose-pinks or full deep reds, magenta, crimson, salmon, and 

 flaming orange-vermilion : and then beside all these self-coloured 

 ones are all the marvellous combinations in a single flower. 

 What can be more remarkable than Zomerschoon yellow 

 splashed with salmon-red, or more vivid than Greigei^ or more 

 lovely than Rose Pompon, semi-double lemon shaded to pink at 

 the tips of the petals ? The names to be mentioned with honour 

 are almost endless, and a sight of the bunches exhibited at the 

 May Horticultural Show fills the gardener with envy. I am 

 told that most of these many and lovely varieties were originally 

 started in Holland, sold by the raiser to English growers and 

 kept as much as possible out of the hands of the neighbour- 

 ing Dutch gardeners for mercantile reasons ; certainly many 

 kinds exhibited here are not to be found in the best Dutch 

 catalogues, an extra reason for supporting the home industry 

 and buying in England or Ireland. 



It is often said that May, when Spring is over and Summer 

 not yet fully come, is rather a poor month for flowers, but a 

 few shillings expended on these late Tulips will fill the garden 

 with beauty. Although new sorts are expensive, some indeed 

 almost prohibitive in price owing to the stock being still so 

 small, many old ones are extraordinarily cheap and can be got 

 from 2s. to i os. or I2s. a hundred. 



To ensure yellow in the garden when the Daffodils have 

 faded, plant 



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