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round, and their colouring is often unusual ; bronze, purple, 

 lilac-grey, white, dark crimson and rose are the shades 

 chiefly represented. The flowers of the Cottage Tulip 

 are of more graceful outline, long, rather narrow, and 

 tapering, and the colouring brilliant chiefly scarlet, 

 orange-red, yellow, pink, or allied tints. 



Early November is an ideal time to plant the bulbs of 

 these splendid flowers. It is worth while to prepare the 

 ground well for them because, despite the advice of the 

 Tulip specialist to lift the bulbs every season, they may 

 be left undisturbed for several years. If yard manure is 

 dug in the ground it should be put at least 12 inches 

 deep, for it is a mistake to allow the bulbs to come into 

 contact with it. Bone meal applied at the rate of 3 or 4 

 ozs. to the square yard, 8 or 10 inches deep, is an excellent 

 fertiliser to use. Deep planting ;is essential, and the top 

 of the bulb should be not less than 4 inches beneath the 

 soil. May-flowering Tulips sometimes fail owing to the 

 attacks of a fungus, the effects of which are commonly 

 referred to as "fire," and are seen in disfigured and, in 

 a bad attack, ruined foliage. The use of sulphur at 

 planting time seems to be the only preventive that has 

 been recommended. Nothing can be done to cure the 

 malady when the leaves become affected in spring, 

 although spraying wtih Bordeaux mixture is advised. 

 The bulbs ought not to be grown in the same soil for two 

 or three years after having been attacked by this 

 disease. 



There are innumerable varieties of both Darwin and 

 Cottage Tulips. A few of the finest of the former are 

 Harry Veitch, dark crimson ; Margaret, pink ; Isis, red ; 

 Rev. H. Ewbank, heliotrope-grey; Pride of Haarlem, 

 bright carmine ; Clara Butt, rose ; Dream, rosy - helio- 

 trope ; Europe, red ; Loveliness, rose. Among Cottage 

 Tulips one should have Inglescombe Pink; Mrs. Moon, 

 yellow ; Primrose Beauty, cream-yellow ; The Faun, rose 

 and fawn ; Yellowhammer, yellow ; Columbus, yellow 



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