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P. moutan rosea is a fine rose-coloured double variety, and 

 produces very splendid flowers. 



P. moutan papaveracea produces veiy large white flowers, 

 with pink centres. This splendid variety frequently bears 

 flowers from nine to eleven inches in diameter. 



Beside the above, are several others of various colours, 

 some of which are semi-double. 



TULIP. 



" For brilliant tints to charm the eye, 

 What plant can with the Tulip vie? 

 Yet no delicious scent it yields 

 To cheer the garden or the fields ; 

 Vainly in gaudy colours dressed, 

 'Tis rather gazed on than caressed." 



The Tulip is a native of the Levant, and has been in cul- 

 tivation nearly three centuries. It may be justly entitled the 

 King of Flowers, #>r the brilliancy and endless combination 

 of all colours and shades. The varieties of the Tulip are 

 very numerous, and are divided into different classes. Those 

 cultivated in regular beds by amateurs are rose-coloured, 

 bybloemen, and bizarres. There are a great many beautiful 

 varieties, denominated Parrot Tulips, which have notched 

 petals, striped or diversified with green ; and also some very 

 dwarfish kinds, both single and double, which are generally 

 cultivated in parlours and green-houses. 



Mr. T. Hogg, of Paddington, near London, has published 

 a work, entitled ' A Treatise on the cultivation of Florists' 

 Flowers/ which comprises the Tulip, Carnation, Auricula, 

 Ranunculus, Polyanthus, Dahlia, German and China Asteis, 

 Seedling Heart's Ease, and New Annuals. In that work, 

 which is dedicated to Queen Adelaide, the author remarks 

 that the cultivation of the Tulip is one of the most fascina- 

 ting and pleasing pursuits imaginable, and that when " The 

 Tulip mania has fairly got hold of any one, it sticks to him 



