My Garden in Spring 



yellow, but also in increasing well by offsets. Seedlings 

 vary in colour a good deal : I have had buff, salmon, and 

 orange-coloured forms, and one almost as scarlet as linifolia, 

 but the base was a light slate grey, not nearly so deep in 

 colour as in linifolia. It is quite possible, though, that these 

 colour varieties may be hybrids. One of them was selected 

 some years ago and named Sunset, and received an award 

 at a Temple Show, and I was delighted when I found its 

 exact counterpart among some of my seedlings. T. Batalinii 

 is one of the few Tulips that will sow itself in the rock 

 garden. T. firaestans is a great beauty of pure scarlet, and 

 when robust bears two or more flowers on a stem. Two 

 varieties of it are known, and the earliest and best is called 

 var. Tubergeniana. It makes such an early appearance above- 

 ground that it is best planted in a sheltered position facing 

 west or south-west, where it will not be tempted into growth 

 too soon, and the morning sunshine will not fall on its downy 

 leaves while they are still frozen. I have a clump in the 

 rock garden sheltered by some dwarf conifers that in most 

 seasons flares out in its glowing vermilion before one has 

 such a Pomegranate-blossom colouring elsewhere in the 

 open. T. primulina is a refined little many-flowered species, 

 and very charming when open in sunshine, but is rather 

 shy about showing off its charms, and too green outside 

 to make much show when closed. T. stellata is the 

 Himalayan representative of the well-known T. Clusiana, 

 the Lady Tulip, and like it runs about too much at the 

 root making small bulbs, and therefore seldom sends up 

 enough flowers. When they do appear they are very 

 lovely, star-shaped and of a soft sulphur shade, with a 

 deep red base and rosy tints on the outside of the segments, 

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