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shades ; and whether feathered or flamed, is distinguished by 

 the same characters and marks which are pointed out and 

 applied to the Bizarres Tulips. 



A Rose Tulip is marked or variegated with rose, scarlet, 

 crimson, or cherry color, on a white ground ; and the Feathered 

 Kose is to be distinguished from the Flamed by the same rules 

 as described before ; the Rose is very often both feathered and 

 flamed. 



A Self, or plain-colored Tulip, properly so called, is either 

 white or yellow, and admits of no further change ; other plain- 

 colored Tulips, whether red or purple, are called breeders, and 

 are hardly worthy of being exhibited. 



MANAGEMENT OF TULIPS 



To describe minutely the mode of planting a regular bed of 

 Tulips would exceed our limits. Suffice it to state that the 

 name of every bulb should be written in a book, and that they 

 should be so classed as to have the varied colors show advan- 

 tageously. To this end, the tallest should be allotted for the 

 middle of the bed, and others in regular gradation, so as to 

 have the most dwarfish on the sides. The bulbs must be 

 covered with good mould to the depth of three inches from the 

 top of the bulb on the sides of the bed, and about four inches 

 in the middle. Let a spoonful of clean drift sand be used 

 around each bulb, and see that the bed be left sufficiently round 

 from the middle to the edges. The beginner must understand 

 that no unsightly tallies, nor number sticks, are to distinguish 

 the Tulips, but that he must adopt a soft of ground plan, 

 dividing the whole bed into rows of seven bulbs across. For 

 example, write down the names and places of the Tulips in the 

 first row, and continue the same form all through to the other 

 end of the bed. 



