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pure white; Firefly, brilliant orange, and Re- 

 troflexa, a bright yellow tulip with recurved 

 petals. 



Late-flowering tulips are again divided and 

 flowers of tire sub-group are known as Show or 

 Florists' tulips. In this division are the bi- 

 zarres, byblcemens, and roses. The bizarre has 

 a yellow ground with red, brown, scarlet or 

 crimson shades. The bybloemen has a white 

 ground upon which markings of black, brown, 

 lilac, etc., show. The rose possesses a white 

 ground upon which bright markings of pink, 

 scarlet and crimson show. Breeder or "moth- 

 er" tulips, or selfs, bear flowers without 

 markings, but with yellow bases, the upper por- 

 tion of the petals being self-colored white, rose, 

 scarlet, red, brown or purple. The Darwins 

 belong to the self-colored group and are im- 

 proved "mother" tulips, as a matter of fact, 

 surpassing in color and brilliancy all other 

 tulips. The l>est of these — and no garden can 

 have too many — are Ouida, carmine-red ; Nau- 

 tica, purplish-rose; Kate Greenaway, white and 

 lilac-rose ; Faust, purple-black, and Buffon, 

 rosy-lilac. These ' ' show ' ' tulips are the flowers 

 which years ago caused the famous tulip 

 "mania" in Europe. At that time tulips sold 



