THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



English friends a list of the Darwin tulips he 

 considers the best. These are the ones: Clara 

 Butt, salmon-pink; Crepuscule, pinky lilac; Faust, 

 deep violet; Giant, deep purplish-crimson; La 

 Candeur, ivory-white; La Tristesse, slaty blue; 

 Madame Krelage, rosy pink; Margaret, soft pink, 

 almost blush; Mr. Farncombe Sanders, rosy 

 crimson; Prince of the Netherlands, cerise-car- 

 mine; Raphael, purplish violet; and Haarlem, a 

 giant salmony orange-red. Five of these I have 

 grown. The man to whom this list was given, a 

 distinguished judge of flowers, comments on the 

 evident partiality of Mr. Krelage for the rich 

 deep-purples, as shown by these choices of his 

 own. 



Last spring Miss Jekyll wrote of her pleasure 

 in some beautiful varieties of tulips, Darwins and 

 Cottage both, sent her as cut blooms by a well- 

 known grower. And I was so charmed with her 

 description of these, especially with what she said 

 of the purple and bronze tones of some of them, 

 that I cleared out a lot of shrubbery to make room, 

 and planted last fall the following groups: Ew- 

 bank and Morales together, Faust, Grand Mo- 

 narque, Purple Perfection, and D. T. Fish; Bronze 

 King, Bronze Queen, Golden Bronze, Dom Pedro, 



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