JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVI April, 1915 No. 184 
THE DISPLAY OF TULIPS AT THE GARDEN 
With Plate CLVI 
n late April and May the tulips make their appearance, the 
ae varieties flowering up to the early part of May, the cottage 
varieties coming a little a followed by the Darwins late in the 
n Now. 
arly 
the ee ee pee ones being found among the earl 
and cottage forms while the soft more delicate shades occur 
among the Darwins. 
One of the most striking tulip displays last year was in the 
court of conservatory range No. 1, an illustration of which is 
here presented. The tulips used were all of the early flowering 
feet and contains about 1,200 Pubes the flowers a ah crimson. 
The bed to the left and th 
and one half by six feet, and hold res 600 bulbs of Tulipa 
chrysolora which has flowers of arich yellow. The long center 
d is fifty nine feet by nineteen feet. A border three and one 
half feet wide is planted with La Reine, a pure white variety, 
about 2,300 bulbs being required. The center is filled ae 
Cottage Maid, one of the most beautiful of pink tulips. 
2,800 of these were required. Each lateral bed paralleling Ae 
(Journal for March (16; 43-66) was issued April to, 1915] 
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