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BULLETIN 797, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



The largest and most popular after the single earlies are the breed- 

 ers.^ The flowers are self-colored except the base. They are divided 



into Dutch, English, and Darwins — the 

 Dutch with a cup-shaped flower, the Eng- 

 lish with a hemispherical flower, and thei 

 Darwins with a rectangular-based flower. 

 The Dutch and English breeders are again 

 subdivided into three divisions: Roses, 

 which are pink to red in color, the ground 

 or tissue of the petals below the epidermis 

 being white; Bybloemen, which are purple 

 to violet and also have a white ground ; and 

 Bizarres, which have shades of scarlet to 

 bronze with a yellow ground. 



As stated elsewhere, the broken tulips 

 are subdivided the same as the breeders 

 from which they are derived. Their irregu- 

 lar distribution of the epidermal colors 

 superimposed upon white or yellow grounds 

 gives very brilliant and attractive efl'ects. None of the varieties, 

 however, are as vigorous as the breeders from which they are derived. 



Fig. 29. — Narcissus Poeticus 

 Ornatus (Poeticus group). 



Fig. 30. — The Double Van Sion narcissus. Experimental planting at Bellingham, Wash. 



SECTION I. 



Early flowering. (In full flower before the end of April.) 

 A. Dug van Tlioll. — The earliest of all. Single dwarf, rarely exceeding 6 inches 

 in height. May be had in a variety of colors and comnwnly listed as Due 

 van Tholl red, Due van Tholl white, etc. 



1 The single earlies are also breeders. 



