64 MY GARDEN 



month and is a matter of great pride and enjoyment to 

 us, for it is rather rare in American gardens, and truly 

 exquisite. 



What are known in the catalogues as "earlies" are 

 hybrids developed from some natural species. Many 

 of them are sweet scented and they have a thin, almost 

 transparent, quality to their petals lacking in the more 

 robust Tulips of May. I love to plant them in stiff 

 rows along the edges of the borders, for somehow their 

 short stems and stiffly quaint air seems not suitable for 

 planting in friendly groups, or in careless, broadcast 

 fashion. 



Special favourites are Chrysolora, clear yellow 

 rounded flower. Yellow Prince, finely scented. Thomas 

 Moore, splendid red-orange. Prince of Orange, orange- 

 scarlet, scented. Cottage Maid, dainty pink and white. 

 Le Reve, soft rose. Pink Beauty, cherry with white 

 lines. Princess Helen, white. Flamingo, white-edged 

 rose. Coleur Cardinal, rich, deep red. Brunehilde, 

 white with yellow flashes. Wouverman, rich, reddish 

 purple. White Swan, pure white, vase-shaped, blooms a 

 little later. 



Belonging to the "earlies" are some double sorts well 

 worth having, though they are rather heavy-headed and 

 in wet weather are apt to get badly splashed with mud. 

 We grow them in some eight-inch borders under the long 

 grape arbours in the kitchen garden where the paths are 

 of grass, so that when beaten down they rest upon the 



