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latter are nearly always bold, black-eyed 
beauties with such a wild grace that in August 
I urged our readers to try the cheaper sorts 
on a large scale for naturalizing in long grass. 
The most promising of this type is T. 
Tubergeniana, which is said to be the largest 
of all known tulips. The petals are claimed 
to be four and a half inches long. This 
would make the flower nine inches across at 
its moment of greatest expansion. It is 
described as orange-crimson, with a black 
blotch. Last year the bulbs of this newest 
giant cost $2.25 each on the other side. 
This enormous flower seems to eclipse 
T. Wilsoniana, which was the sensation of 
tgor. Itisa blood red flower two and three- 
quarters inches long, but it has never been 
adequately described. 
THREE WITH INTERMEDIATE PETALS 
Tulips are either all sharp-petalled, or all 
round-petalled, or else the outer petals are 
sharp and the inner ones round. To this 
last class belong three huge red-flowered 
species T°. Micheliana, Fosteriana and ingens. 
The first of these (Micheliana) can be told 
at once from all other tulips by the brown 
stripes on the leaves which gradually dis- 
appear as the leaves mature. The petals 
become three inches long. ‘There is a black 
lanceolate blotch at the base of each petal, 
with either a broad border of yellow or only 
a faint trace of the latter color. The bulbs 
would cost about $2 a dozen here. 
The cheapest of these very new tulips is’ 
T. Fosteriana, said to have a four-inch 
petal of dazzling scarlet. The centre may be 
either yellow or maroon. It cost only $9.50 
a hundred on the other side last year. 
Another big red flower is TZ. ingens, 
scarlet-vermilion with a black blotch which 
sometimes fills the base of each petal and 
sometimes is reduced to a spatulate blotch, 
but is never bordered with yellow. A 
peculiarity of this flower is the broad soft 
yellowish band on the outside of the flower. 
The petals are said to be four inches long. 
THE NEWEST LATE YELLOW SPECIES 
No late yellow-flowered tulip of importance 
been discovered 
has since 1889, when 
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Foster’s tulip, a red flower said to have petals four 
inches long 
. in both fall and spring catalogues. 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
T. Batalini, from 
Bucharia, was des- 
cribed. Itisa pale 
yellow blossom with 
an orange eye, and 
is sald to attain four 
and a half inches 
in length. But the 
trade seems to 
know nothing of so 
large a flower. It 
regards Batalini as 
a species for the 
rock garden which 
more than makes 
up for the smallness 
of its flowers by its 
freedom of bloom. 
It is said to grow 
only eight inches 
high and could be imported for about 
$1.50 a dozen. 
I can see no reason why we Americans 
should part with our hard-earned money 
for any other species of tulips discovered 
since 1873. Time seems to have declared 
against 7. Kolpakowskiana and Ostrows- 
kiana. Judging from the colored plates, 
the only one I should be sorry to lose is 
T. Alberti, a red flower only two inches long, 
but having a dark blotch of unique shape. 
All the other blotched tulips I know, carry 
their dark color down to the base of the 
petal, but this one is yellow at the base and 
the yellow is bordered by a reddish brown 
deeply indented blotch. The total effect 
is indescribable; one must see the Bofani- 
cal Magazine, plate 6761. This unique 
tulip I suppose can hardly be had for love 
or money. I have searched catalogues with- 
out end for a price on it. 
Unique marking of Albert’s 
tulip 
An Ever-blooming Yellow Calla 
By Henry Maxwett, Conn. 
HERE was great interest in the world 
of floriculture about fifteen years 
ago when the first good yellow calla was 
introduced, and small bulbs sold for twenty- 
five dollars each. Prior to the introduction 
of the golden calla, there existed a so-called 
“yellow” calla (Richardia hastata), but the 
color was only a greenish yellow, while that 
of Richardia Elliottiana maintains a rich, 
lustrous yellow for two weeks before the 
flower becomes greenish with age. These 
flowers are often four to five inches across. 
Bulbs of the golden calla can now be 
bought for from fifty cents to a dollar and 
a quarter each, depending upon the size. 
The first bulbs that reached this country 
were about as big as marbles, but it is now 
possible to obtain bulbs four inches in 
diameter. 
The bulbs of the golden calla are offered 
If you 
wish to grow them as house plants, procure 
them in late fall, pot them and keep them 
rather dry until the roots develop. When 
the pots are all filled with roots, the tops 
will suddenly start into growth and will 
bloom in ten or twelve weeks, or about the 
middle of April. 
NovEemMBeER, 1908 
The following notes are contributed by 
Mr. Joseph Tailby, of Wellesley, Mass.: 
“The golden calla makes a good house 
plant. A strong, well-ripened bulb should. 
produce two or three flowers, the second 
flowers appearing as the first ones are 
fading. It flowers but once in a season,, 
but will retain its foliage until the middle 
of August. From early ripened bulbs it 
could be brought to flower by January, 
if grown in a night temperature of about 
60 degrees. As it roots from the top of 
the bulb, it should be placed deep in 
pot. The soil should be of good maiden 
loam with a little sand and one-third well- 
decomposed manure and plenty of drainage. 
“For outside culture, I plant the bulbs. 
the same time as potatoes, at the end of 
April or the first of May, setting them six 
inches deep. The main object is to get 
them well rooted before the hot weather 
sets in. I leave them in the ground until 
the tops are cut down by the frost, digging 
them about the last of October. I dry 
them well before storing in a cellar of a 
temperature not lower than 4c degrees — 
45 degrees is better. I was the first to 
flower this plant in the United’ States, 
paying ten guineas for two bulbs, and was. 
awarded a silver medal by the Massachusetts. 
Horticultural Society about seventeen years. 
ago. 
“T have some very fine seedlings of my 
own breeding. They are larger in flower 
and stronger in constitution. They vary 
in color from deep yellow to white. The 
Mrs. Roosevelt was my first hybrid. It 
was raised from alba macalata crossed with 
Elliottiana.” 
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The flowers of the golden calla last two ‘or three 
weeks, and are often five inches across 
