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cued, to become one of the most admired classes. 
Late tulips were themselves divided some three 
hundred years ago into four classes—breeders or 
self-flowers, that is to say, all of one color: bizarres, 
bybleemens and roses. A peculiarity of tulips is 
that in cultivation a seedling blooming for the first 
time is generally self-colored; then, after a few 
years—they have been known to wait three dec- 
ades—there will be a change to a feathered state. 
The lower part of the petals remains as before, 
but there will be marginal pencilling and wide and 
narrow stripes or blotches. Bizarres are the ones 
with yellow bases and markings of red, maroon | 
and brownish shades; bybleemens are white, marked 
with purples that grade to what is called black, 
and roses are white with many shades of pink 
and red markings. 
From this race has come a comparatively new 
one, the Darwin, which some amateurs regard as 
the finest of all. Certainly it is a noble race, well 
calculated to send into ecstasies of delight any 
one who has seen an exhibition of the star va- 
rieties—say twenty-five specimens of each, mag- 
nificent in form and color and the stems more than 
two feet long. The Darwins are selfs, or nearly 
so; some of them are shaded, shot or edged with 
another tone and the centre may be white, blue or 
black. No tulip colors are more exquisite. 
When the Darwins “break” into a lasting varie- 
gation they are known as Rembrandts. These are 
very strikingly blotched, striped or flamed and vie 
