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610 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
T. SYLVESTRIS (growing in woods). Bulb small, with brown scales. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet long, somewhat zigzag. Leaves few and slender, 
glaucous. Flowers fragrant, bright yellow, 2 inches long; segments 
broad, lance-shaped; April and May. 
A large number of species of Tulipa have been introduced within 
the last ten years from Asia Minor, but they are known only to 
botanists and a few specialists. 
The number of these is so great that they have had to 
be organised into classes, and even these classes are increas- 
ing in number. Primarily, we may distinguish a division into Early 
and Late-flowering Tulips. The Early-flowering are divided into 
Singles and Doubles; but the classification of the Late-flowering is not 
nearly so simple. First, these are separated under the heads of Bizarres, 
Byblcemens, Roses, Parrots, and Darwins; second, they are divided into 
Feathered Bizarres, Flamed Bizarres, Feathered Byblcemens, Flamed 
Byblcemens, Feathered Roses, Flamed Roses. But where Tulips are 
raised from seed, there is an early stage in which the flowers are neither 
feathered nor flamed, but are of one uniform (or self-) colour. This first 
flowering takes place when the seedling plant is four or five years old, 
and its colour may be white, yellow, brown, purple, or red; it is now 
termed a Breeder. At some future flowering period—how many seasons 
later is quite uncertain—it may “break” into central markings of 
another colour, and these may be either flame-like or feather-like. It is 
now Rectified, and is placed in the Flamed or the Feathered section of 
its class according to the character of this variegation. 
In Bizarres the ground colour is either lemon or golden yellow, 
and the base of the flower is of clear yellow. Above this clear base is 
laid the flame or feather marks of orange, scarlet-crimson, black and 
brown. If the base is stained with a tinge of green, then, according to 
the rules, all its value as an exhibition plant is gone. 
BYBLG@MENS have a clear white ground and white base, above which 
the variegations are similarly laid in violet, purple, black, pale lilac, 
lavender, and heliotrope. 
RosEs also have a clear white base, and a white or rose ground 
above it, on which are laid flames or feathers of delicate pink, soft rose, 
glowing scarlet, scarlet-cerise, rose-pink, carmine-rose, or the deepest 
crimson. 
Darwins are really late-flowering English “ Breeders,’ which differ 
from the Dutch Breeders in their numerous and striking shades of 
colour, ranging from the lightest to the darkest, and in their long flower- 
stalks, 
Garden Varieties, 
