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though not to be met with in every garden, have yet some 
zealous cultivators. 
There are some varieties, such as the early Duc Van 
Thol, yellow, white, and red; the Clarimond, the Parrots, 
and the Double Tulips, which belong, properly’ speaking, 
to the general cultivator, The genuine tulip-grower. des- 
pises these, and will not suffer them to enter his select bed. 
In England, the florists’ tulips are arranged under four 
classes. 1. The Bizarres, which have a yellow ground 
marked with purple or scarlet.. 2. The Byblemens with a 
white ground, marked with violet or purple. 3. The Roses, 
with a white ground, marked with rose or cherry color. 
4. The Self or Plain-colored tulips, which are of one uni- 
form color, and are chiefly valued as breeders. The byblo- 
men class includes most of those tulips which are held in 
high estimation in Britain; but the rose or cherry colored 
are perhaps the most pleasing. 
The properties of a fine late tulip, as specified by Mr. 
Hogg, are the following, somewhat abridged. The stem 
should be strong, erect, thirty inches high : the flower large, 
of six petals (sepals), which should proceed almost. hori- 
zontally at first, and, turning up, should form an almost 
perfect cup, with a round bottom, rather widest at top. 
The three exterior petals should be rather larger than the 
three interior ones: the limbs of the petals should be 
rounded, and freed from every species of serrature. The 
ground color of the flower at the bottom should be clear 
white or clear yellow; and the various rich colored stripes, 
which are the principal ornament of a fine tulip, should be 
regular, bold, and distinct at the margin, and terminate in 
fine broken points, elegantly feathered or penciled. There 
are other refinements upon which florists are not quite 
agreed: and it must be confessed that their standard of 
