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with other blooms of Bouton d'Or, Jaune chrome 

 moyen No. 1, petals edged with No. 3 of the same 

 color, seemed a more perfect description. I give 

 the two for accuracy's sake. The black anthers 

 of Bouton d'Or add appreciably to its interest. 



A tulip of far paler yellow than Bouton d'Or 

 is Moonlight, another cottage tulip, so elegant, 

 so distinguished, as to relegate Bouton d'Or at 

 once to a sort of tulip bourgeoisie. Moonlight is 

 beautifully named, with its pale tones of yellow 

 and charmingly proportioned flower. The gen- 

 eral tone of Moonlight in the chart is Jaune citron 

 No. 1 or Jaune primavere No. 1; within its petals 

 Jaune soufre No. 4 prevails. 



While among the yellow tulips, Sprengeri, the 

 latest of all tulips to bloom, must not be over- 

 looked. Tulipa Sprengeri, to be sure, is not yel- 

 low; it is an orange-scarlet and thereby related 

 to the yellows (Orange de Mars No. 2, edges of 

 inner petals Orange rougeatre No. 1). The out- 

 side of each outer petal is flamed through the 

 centre with Rouge cuivre. This tulip I have 

 growing among close-packed roots of a pearl-gray 

 German iris, name unknown. The two come into 

 flower simultaneously; the tulip is quite as tall 

 as the iris, and the twx> flowers are strikingly 



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