tions. As in the whole reason of gardening: = 

 taste = is the great factor. 



Broken (Striped) Tulips. 



From the Darwins are the Rembrandt-Tulips 

 arised, and from the Dutch Breeders the Bizar- 

 res, the Roses and Violettes. It happens some- 

 times that, for reasons up till now unknown, all 

 of a sudden in a bed of tulips of the same colour 

 one or sometimes more appear with stripes 

 white or another colour. They were then called: ; 

 broken tulips, because the unity colour was 

 broken. Amongst those sports of the Darwins and 

 the Dutch Breeders are wonderful specimen of [ 

 beauty. They form again a type by themselves 

 and attract the eye of every connoisseur by their 

 form and colour. They are really marvellous 

 flowers of a great charm. The Rembrandts, Roses 

 and Violettes tulips are rose red, mauve or violet ' 

 striped or marbled white, the Bizarres are striped 

 or marbled yellow. 



The most successful planting of this kind of 

 tulips is in round beds, each containing 25 50 

 bulbs, along the edge of the lawn, separated by 

 a yard of turf. 



A few other types of Tulips. 



,,The Parrot Tulips are for a bold arrangement 

 of strong colouring, and few flowers give so 



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gorgeous an effect, and they twist and tumble 

 about in a way that help their manipulator to 

 dispose them in natural-looking, informal- 

 looking, informal groups." 



So we read once in an English garden paper. 

 Quite so but our advice is to plant the Parrot 

 tulips partly between, partly in front of shrubs 

 and not on beds as they are inclined to ,,flop 

 down", Bulbgrowers - - however - - have suc- 

 ceedeed in growing Parrots of a sturdier habit, 

 but they are still a novelty. Those, of course can 

 be planted in beds, and produce then a wonder- 

 ful effect, because of the large fantastically 

 formed flowers. 



One of those novelties is ,,Fantasy", a sport of 

 the Darwin ,,Clara Butt", and is of the same 

 colour: a beautiful salmon pink. 



Lily-flowered Tulips are also a novelty. They 

 are crossings of the Cottage Tulip retroflexa and 

 the Darwins. One of the first was Sirene, of a 

 glorious satin pink with curved petals just as we 

 see that in some lilies. It is a splendid acqui- 

 sition and fine for bedding. Adonis (vivid pink), 

 Alaska (golden yellow), Artemis (bright carmine 

 rose) etc., although beautiful, have not that 

 charm that Sirene has. 



Mendel Tulips, crossings of the short-stemmed 

 and early Due van Tholl and the long-stemmed 

 and late Darwin, are the latest novelty. They 

 are very beautiful, but very expensive. The flo- 



