Tulip gorgeous for a week or two, especially when they last till the 

 Effects and purple Flags are out. Other good sorts are : 



Colour Gesneriana major or spathulata the largest of all the 



Tulips, with dazzling scarlet petals and a deep 

 blue base. Massed together they are magnificent 

 and are well worth growing in quantities. 

 Elegans scarlet pointed petals and reflexed. 

 Elegans alba, similar in form but white with narrow 



carmine edge, most exquisite. 

 Gesneriana aurantiaca maculata, red-orange with a 



dark -brown base. 

 Lion d' Orange. 

 La Merveille, orange and red. 

 Two useful white Tulips are : 

 Dame Blanche. 

 La Candeur, double. 



For mauve and purple, grow Blue Flag and the many 

 toned Darwin Tulips. All sorts of queer soft shades of mauve 

 and lilac and purple not seen in other flowers are to be found 

 in these besides the exquisite pinks and cherry-reds of such kinds 

 as Margaret, Clara Butt, and Salmon King. We have a pretty 

 border of Darwins with a Pansy called Coquette de Poissy 

 which makes a beautiful carpet for them, being of the same odd 

 pink-mauve as the Tulips. 



Then there are still to be mentioned the Parrot Tulips with 

 strange torn petals and most brilliant colouring, but inclined to 

 weak stalks and drooping heads : the Bizarres, various shades of 

 red with yellow and orange flakes ; the Bybloemens, white with 

 flakings of lilac and purple ; the Roses with flakings of rose and 

 red on a white ground, and such little treasures as T. Sylvestris, 



