Tulips 



evaporating and it will end the struggle by dying of a 

 broken heart. These look more like some Star-of-Bethle- 

 hem than a Tulip, so I feel the real Tulip season commences 

 with the appearance of T. Kaufmanniana. Plant it six 

 inches deep at least, and leave it alone, and every March its 

 large, water-lily-shaped flowers should herald in the Tulip 

 days. It varies from white to crimson, and on the way 

 can be pure rich yellow flushed outside with red. Many 

 varieties have been selected and named ; aurea and coccinea 

 the two finest are very dazzling and wonderful when 

 fully open in the sunshine. I believe in all its forms it 

 has the deep yellow base that helps to make it look like a 

 water-lily on land. T. dasystemon has a somewhat similar 

 appearance on a smaller scale. It is dwarf, and a good 

 bulb will bear several flowers which are pure glistening 

 white when open, with a very bright yellow centre, but 

 when closed they are dull and green and still look like 

 some small Nymphaea bud. 



It is a charming plant for the rock garden, and is easy 

 to grow. T. linifolia and T. Maximowiczii are so much 

 alike that it is very hard to distinguish them, but one need 

 not grumble at whichever comes under either name, for 

 both are brilliant scarlet with a black base, of beautiful 

 salver shape when open, and have the neatest possible 

 habit and narrow leaves with waved margins. They do 

 not increase much, but keep in health for many years if 

 occasionally lifted and cleaned by the removal of some of 

 their old jackets. A very curious tuft of woolly hairs orna- 

 ments the top of the bulb, and is worth noticing. Batalinii 

 is very closely related to these two, and differs chiefly in 

 the colour of its flowers, which are of a lovely soft butter- 

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