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embrace much variety of colour. The varieties of Due 

 Van Thol and Pottebakker are largely used for early 

 bloom, but other good varieties are Bacchus, Canary 

 Bird, Keizerskroon, Mon Tresor, and Proserpine. 

 Following these are the popular Artus, Cottage Maid, 

 Crimson King, and many others. As, however, almost 

 all the bulb-dealers give the blooming periods in their 

 lists, it would only take up space unnecessarily to detail 

 them. A special selection of the best for pot work or 

 for forcing would include such varieties as the Due 

 Van Thols, Couleur de Cardinal, Globe de Rigaut, 

 Keizerskroon, the Pottebakkers, Royal Standard, and 

 Samson, all reliable bloomers where they are properly 

 cultivated. 



Double Tulips last a little longer in bloom, but they 

 do not lend themselves so well to the decoration of the 

 garden, and many people do not care for their rather 

 heavy-looking blooms. Good varieties for pots and 

 forcing are Artus, Brutus, Duchess of Parma, Proser- 

 pine, Rose tendre, Thomas Moore, and Van der Neer. 

 For bedding there are Cramoisie superbe, La Candeur, 

 Murillo, Rex Rubrorum, and Titian, besides a number 

 more. Variegated leaved Tulips are pretty in beds, 

 even before the blooming time, but they are not much 

 grown in this country. 



The " Cottage Garden " Tulips grow yearly in favour, 

 and they deserve it because of their beauty and their 

 general hardiness, which enables the greater number to 

 be permanent border flowers. There are a great many 

 of much beauty, and a brief selection is necessarily 

 incomplete. It includes the curious acuminata, Didieri, 

 elegans, Faerie Queen, flava, Gala Beauty, gesneriana, 

 Golden Beauty, Golden Crown, ixioides, macrospila, 

 maculata, Picotee, retroflexa, sylvestris major, vitellina, 

 and York and Lancaster. 



The beautiful species of wild Tulips give much 



