SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



540. TUBEROSE, common. -Lat. Polyanthes tuberosa. 

 Fr. Tubfreuse cultivee. A green- house perennial plant, 

 about three feet high, and a native of the East Indies. 

 Blows a white flower in August and September, and has a 

 very powerful scent. Propagated by the offsets, which are 

 separated from the principal root every year, as it blows, 

 generally, but once. The offsets should be planted in a 

 hot-bed, and they blow in about two years. Like sub- 

 stantial though light earth. The bulbs of this plant are 

 imported annually, by the florists and seedsmen, from 

 Italy, as are those of the Amaryllis, from Guernsey ; and 

 it is better to buy these and only force them into flower 

 by means of the stove, or hot-bed to begin with, and 

 then the green-house, than to attempt to propagate them 

 from offsets, which are long in coming to perfection. 



541. TULIP. Lat. Tulipasylveslris.Fr.TulipeSau- 

 vage. This is the native tulip, but is so completely 

 eclipsed by the eastern plant of the same name that it is 

 scarcely known, though one variety, the double yellow, 

 is a most desirable border flower, producing handsome 

 large and very double flowers in May. It is multiplied 

 by parting its offsets every year from the mother bulb, 



and likes a lightish soil. TULIP, the florist's Lat. 



Tulipa Gesnariana Fr. Tulipe des fleuristes. From the 

 Levant. A hardy bulb that has occupied the attention 

 of Florists more than any other plant. There are early 

 blowing and late blowing varieties, the former appearing 

 in April, and the latter in May and June ; and as to 

 colours, they match the rainbow. I will mention the 

 names of two or three of the early and the double va- 

 rieties : Earlv blowers, Due van Thol, Clarimond, Due van 



