Aucust 30, 1919.1 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
113 
Колдаш». "сй 
No. 1705.—8A TURDA Y, AUGUST 30, 1919. 
ENTS. 
` Books, notices of— Cattleya Warscewiczii 
igan’s vari idus 
Medicinal herbs and Wi; ety .. . 114 
poisonous plants ... 120| Laelio-Cattleya 
onias and  Pelar jid Rhodope ... 114 
Н ка at Glasnevin Dendrcbinm 
129138 amoenum „. 114 
* Farm Crops and stock Laeli ttl 
on the home , 1 
23 Saxon ... = s 114 
“educa: Pelargonium crispum 
.. variegatum ... eee 
tional exhibits at ... 118 riegat. 120 
morial Prize, Potash salts from 
ose 118| Germany .. ... 119 
vegetable Rats, destruction of ... 11 
аы M pers Foppies in sea 
san 
on wed condition o е 115 
Shropshire Horticul- 
ps yis 1 e Society 118 
ет сіеііеѕ:— К 
ьм рс Е Horticul- 
115 ЕУ 122 
үч m yal Horticultural... 120 
ary— eet Peas 114 
James М.М’ mm ds US Гас growing in the 
_ Daniel Roberts 123| Unite d Kin ngdom Ae i 
notes an Tr: айе Note . 123 
nings— Tulips and t eir ways 113 
aius grandi: npe 114 Week's s work, деа 116, 117 
itleya Da Damaris . 1l14|We pad fd 
 &Cattleya hybrids — ... 114 den ei ity die m tas 
vtr niii ec 
са cat eo 11 
CD. .11 
121 
225:22/0118, 1141-115, 116 
TULIPS AND THEIR WAYS. 
90. 
(Concluded iin p- J 
: h question of the 
smooth or 
that differ 
collected 
stem, at any rate, forms | 
j Ew no other элү are found among wild 
A = ewe in which I am led " disigree 
of the 
ps as T. Di ierii, 
vs the evidence 
ed species are not really wild Tulips 
is cat forms that have escaped from 
Semi-cultiy 
oa 
in identical form 
Figs. 54 and 
r of these 
of each variety. 
me 
very example 
above-mentioned Armenian Tulip there is a 
lips. ere is no variation Jena Хз» ; : e xd E 
idual s imens of each kini simuar basa lation 18 ways found amon 
"à or toda Mida E UN wild plants. There is seldom any distinct basal 
among bulbs that have increased by vegetative, blotch in yellow ulips, t the = of the 
as opposed to sexual, increase. In othe 8, ape = er d eost s h bip А А 
2 f these so-called species is the g of ew ле. о galatica have, however, faint 
one garden seedling, which has increa 26 E ae те ig ht, 
seeds but by offsets. If we remember that, can ope Gps ый ун E 
the “tills meddle “wis At iu height m Pie, sider as wild species any Tul f which all the 
it'alao raged; though less -virulently, in Northern known рес ens ght : tical ен PAN 
Italy, and, if we remember, too, that in those and of w ich the in ivi ual р show no 
ays no seedling was any account unless it variat оп. We sh sid ет as ape vege- 
“broke " into a striped or “flamed ”. form, it ative increase of one original gai en-raised 
will not surprise us to think that these red bulb, and the acceptance of this afer ca will 
PER ы g forms were disca rd БЕРЕ greatly x m : of Tulips to which 
x е can е ran 
бегун no Комек ees is easy for criticism to be түү but 
less easy to be constructive. Yet is diffic ult 
to see how to make more tha: (зби бна z 
the known species of T It is easy 
separate off the few species from the Far КА 
kin to Т. edulis апа Т. erythronioides, which 
are distinguis y their long-beaked ovaries 
and by their extremel ort, round anthers. 
The er species can then be divided into two 
sections, according as the filaments of the 
anthers are, or are not, hairy at ги his 
hairiness may be аз obvious 
sylvestris, where the base "fs ‘iinet is 
uch ат and densely covered with fi 
hairs, ог as difficult to (9 is 
some of the Greek and species, such as 
T. Hagerii and T. Orphanidea. But e hairs 
are alway esent іт” cert, species, and this 
is far as on discover at oe the only 
cha ich we can separate the 
of two 
ЕШР Чай КОД ыыр Е 
54.—BASAL BLOTCHES OF TULIPS 
(1) Tali me — NE on creamy 
yeliow, (2) T. nsis ; — bluish green 
stdin n; on s 
lonis years ago 
an Vom ot 
rted 
This year I have iced the 
variatio wild s ens of i, ina 
species the hills near e eir in Asi 
Minor, and in another from Armenia, which 
could be obtained years ago as T. arm 
In each of these wild species there was infinite 
variation in the ings, I have no 
hope soon to have raised to 
‘acter 
ud majority 0 p Tulips etm Ж ог ле 
natural d 
i 
produce a idi ы wi ith as many as eight 
or ten чир 
һег rw those species, of which the 
s 
o 
These examples show that nnot rely on 
the stem of a for help in classification, 
and a further instance is found in the Tibetan 
form of T x in which the stem never 
appears to ore than inch above th 
soil. The fir i is polen with that of the well- 
known T. Clusiana. Unfortunately I hav only 
single bulb of this less form, and so have 
i ‚ for appa- 
It would be interesting to obt 
of this stemless form, in order to raise seedlings 
and see whether they, too, would be stemless 
questions involved in the understan 
of the ose ipe of Tulips are probably 
for all 
d pes 
one ours are likely to occur 
б oa the € LL 
of бг Х б Т. 
Kaufmanniana cr in the ena | er of T. 
