Colour and stems; the latter have, as a rule, larger and looser flowers, 
Grouping with long-pointed petals, 34 inches in length, frequently 
of Tulips very sweet scented, and their stalks are often not strong 
enough to support the large flowers without bending slightly. 
The ring of colour at the base of the petals is an additional 
beauty; copper pinks will be found to have a cool green 
eye, and rose pinks a peacock, deep blue, or a clear white, while 
some yellows, like /xzoides, are touched with black. 
Unlike Daffodils—the other chief spring flowers—which 
confine themselves to all shades from cream to orange, Tulips 
may be used to carry out almost any scheme of colour. They 
may give delicate, low-toned effects, or the most brilliant, 
according to the taste of the garden painter, but this diversity 
of colour makes it all the more necessary to be careful in 
selecting the varieties. The sketches at Wisley, though 
painted from Tulips grown only in stiff lines to try their 
special qualities, show what a brilliant blaze of scarlet and 
crimson may be obtained, or how telling a contrast of cool deep 
mauves and rich purples. 
By selection of the varieties, and skilful grouping with 
other plants, their beauty can be greatly enhanced. There are 
wonderful shades of salmon and copper pink, as in Jnglescombe 
Pink and Hobbema, which are exquisite with the creamy Vitellina, 
or with such a dark bronze as Sw/tan. The two former are 
also beautiful with the cool blue mauves and purples, but if 
placed near a red mauve the beauty of all is spoilt. There are 
lovely rose pinks which blend also with purples and bronzes, 
but need to be separated from the copper pinks. I prefer to 
divide the former into three groups, soft pinks with petals 
flushed from cream to shaded rose, such as Suzon, the brighter 
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