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Remarks on the cultivation of the Tulip. 



tivator has an ample field to show his skill; in the proportion 

 as good taste in the distribution of the various colors is dis- 

 played, will be the success; no rule, therefore, can be laid 

 down, that is not subject to some improvement; but, as a gen- 

 eral principle, a bed should consist of an equal number of 

 roses, (ro.,) bybloemens, (byb.,) and bizarres, (biz.,) and 

 should be planted in the following order: — 



Row 1. 



Row 2. 

 Row 3. 

 Row 4. 



This general principle should be continued throughout the 

 bed, whatever may be its extent. It is in the selection and 

 arrangeir.ent of the different varieties, of the three classes, 

 that improvements can be made; and this can only be accom- 

 plished as the beauty and habit of the new and various sorts 

 become known to the cultivator, either by cultivation or re- 

 putation. Persons, therefore, who wish to cultivate this 

 beautiful flower, would do well to purchase ten rows or more, 

 properly arranged by some well known and experienced flo- 

 rist. With the ofl^sets, and by the purchase of a few new 

 varieties yearly, a bed may be extended to any desirable 

 length; it being customary to grow duplicates of many of the 

 fine sorts, in the best beds. When tulips are purchased in 

 rows, they are usually duplicated in somewhat the following 

 manner, viz: — 



[* It may not he inappropriate to arid, for the information of some 

 of our readers, that tulips are divided into classes, viz: — 



I. Bizarres — having yellow grounds, shaded with scarlet, red, or 

 purple. 



II. Bybloemens — havinsf white j^rounds, shaded with violet orpur|)Ie. 



III. Roses — havinff white grounds, shaded with rose or cherry red. 



IV. Selfs. — All plain colors, either yellow, white, red, or purple, 

 the two latter being termed breeders. 



Mr. Walker does not notice selfs in the arrangement of his bed 

 above, thougli he enumerates two in his selection for a bed of ten 

 rows. They may occasionally be introduced in the place of the 

 others; and when they arc first rate flowers, with good shaped cups 

 and clean colors, particularly the yellow, they make a pleasing cou- 

 trastj and add to the variety of the bed. — Ed.] 



