TALKING ABOUT TULIP FAVORITES 



Approved Varieties for Present Needs 

 DERRILL W. HART 



'OMEHOW I had a prejudice against 

 ~) Tulips during the first years of my 

 *&^J experience as an "amateur" gar- 

 si^T^ dener. Just why it would be im- 

 possible to say, but I resisted for several 

 years; and then, one spring I fell heir to a 

 spell of sickness. A kind neighbor brought 

 me a pot of bright red Tulips, and of course 

 they had an unfair advantage over a sick 

 man. Still I wasn't quite ready to give in. 

 I planted the bulbs in my garden rather 

 through a sense of economy than the desire 

 to have Tulips, and promptly forgot all 

 about them. Bright and early the next 

 spring they showed up — every last one of 

 them. I was so thrilled that my prejudice 



DON PEDRO 



A popular brown-maroon-bronze 

 Breeder, suitable for planting with 

 yellow and orange shades (24 inches) 



PRINCE OF ORANGE 

 Perhaps the nearest ap- 

 proach to a real orange 

 in Breeder Tulips. 

 Effective with light pur- 

 ples (24 inches) 



MATCHLESS 

 A violet-rose Dar- 

 win that enhances 

 the tones of yellow 

 in the Breeders. 

 (Note, there is no 

 yellow color in any 

 Darwin variety) 



was overcome and I determined to have a 

 "collection" of Tulips. I got the fall bulb 

 catalogues as soon as the dealers could send 

 them out — and my first order contained 

 ten varieties of twenty bulbs each. I 

 waited impatiently for the first warm days 

 of spring but, alas! only about a dozen 

 bulbs came out of the ground. Well, I 

 certainly gave that bulb dealer the dickens 

 — but it was fortunate that I examined 

 my Tulip bed before I sent him the letter 

 1 wrote. I found that a thriving* family 

 of mice had taken an apartment in a mole 

 dug-out and Madam Mouse had prescribed 

 Tulips twice each day as a means of solving 

 the winter menu. 



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JOHN RUSK1N 

 An honored favorite Cot- 

 tage of long standing, 

 blendingsalmon.old rose 

 and yellow (16 inches) 



ECLIPSE 

 Bright scarlet that 

 outshines many of its 

 associate Darwins; and 

 one of the very long 

 stemmed kinds (32 

 inches) 



CITY OF 

 HAARLEM 



Glowing in scarlet, 

 and making 30 inch 

 stems easily, it is one 

 of the most showy of 

 the Darwins. Has a 

 white base 



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