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variety, and among the desirable plants may be named 

 Batalini, biflora, clusiana, Greigi, kolpakowskiana, 

 Korolkowi bicolor, Leichtlini, linifolia, ostrowskyana, 

 persica, praecox, Sprengeri, and violacea. Many of 

 these are capital for the rock-garden. 



The Parrot Tulips are also showy in the rock-garden 

 or for hanging baskets, where the large, fantastic flowers 

 droop over and look very curious with their strange 

 colouring and laciniated petals. They are rather 

 unreliable bloomers. 



The Darwin Tulips are very effective and beautiful 

 flowers. They belong to the breeder class of the 

 florist's Tulips, but are of a strain with more brilliant 

 self-colours than the ordinary breeders. They are 

 good growers, and promise to do well as border 

 flowers. 



The English florist's Tulip, while very fascinating in 

 its way, is not of so much value for the garden as the 

 self-coloured forms, and there are a good many details 

 to be followed by those who wish to cultivate it as it 

 deserves. These will be found in Mr Bentley's work, 

 already mentioned. These English Tulips are divided 

 into three classes with rectified or variegated blooms, as 

 well as another, which consists of what are known as 

 " Breeders," which, like the others, have a stainless 

 base, but have not developed the markings of the other 

 classes. Bizarres have a yellow ground and yellow 

 base, of various shades, with orange, scarlet, crimson, 

 black, or brown markings on the ground ; Bybloemens 

 have a white base and ground, the latter being 

 marked with black, violet, purple, and lilac to lavender ; 

 while the Roses, which have a white base and 

 ground, have the markings of pink, rose, scarlet or 

 crimson. 



