My Garden in Spring 



bronze, black, brown, or crimson, mixing or lying alongside, 

 to form the feathers and flames. This group bears the 

 name Bizarre, and they also can be Breeders or fr. or fld. 

 Sir Joseph Paxton is one of the best, and a good instance 

 of a flower that can appear in all three forms of a Bizarre. 

 The flamed Sir Joseph is one of my greatest favourites, and 

 the colouring is like some grand old piece of buhl, and I 

 keep on turning such a flower round and round to try and 

 settle which of its segments is the most perfectly coloured 

 and the best to place towards me as I dine or write. I 

 believe the love for the English Tulip will some day revive 

 and perhaps grow into a rage, and that the noble little band 

 who keep up its cultivation and the Royal National Tulip 

 Society are doing a great work for future gardeners. How 

 many conversions has this sermon produced ? The outward 

 and visible sign of one is the posting of a letter to the 

 Secretary of the Society (W. Peters, Farcet House, Cam- 

 bridge) asking for full particulars and election as a member, 

 and help in the shape of a few bulbs to start your collection. 

 After the rows of English end we come to Cottage Tulips, 

 a very elastic term, for it includes all the late kinds that 

 are not true species, Darwins or florists' forms. I have 

 too large a collection to be fully described here. 



The beautiful illustration (facing p. 176) shows two of 

 my favourites, but it is hard to pick out any and leave out 

 others in such a wonderful range of colours and forms. 

 Walter T. Ware is certainly the best deep yellow, Louis XIV 

 is a wonderful combination of rich plum-purple and golden 

 bronze, and looks as though shot with the two colours. Don 

 Pedro is a rich brown, John Ruskin long and egg-shaped 

 and apricot-orange shaded with rose and lilac, and as if that 

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