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sca One Flower terminates the Stalk, and it is a The Filaments are fhort, though the Buttons April. 
very fine one; the Ground Colour is yellow, and 
on this is laid a vaft deal of Crimfon: this is not 
‘thrown in Blotches, as in many Kinds, but fpread 
out naturally in a kind of Rays, as if laid on by 
~ Art; the Work of a Needle. 
Thus much is certain and invariable in this 
Tulip, but a great deal of accidental Change is 
feen in it. 
Lemon-Peel, fometimes perfect gold ; and tho’ 
the Red has always the fame Crimfon Ting, it 
| chaffy Fragments in a double Row. 
varies in Degree from very pale to very deep. 
Hence arife thofe numerous feminal Variations 
of this Plant, which is itfelf no more than a Va- 
riety from the original Species we have juft 
-~nam’d; yet thefe are all diftinguifh’d by Gardeners 
Names, the Titles of their Matters, « or the coarfe- 
_ Rovings of their Fancy. 
~ in a very agreeable Succeffion. 
Seafon, in which the Flower firft makes its Ap-— 
pearance, prevents it from opening in hafte, or 
As the Colouring in this Flower is very fine, 
Nature has fhewn it alfo to great Advantage, and 
foon lofing its Beauty. 
The Colours firft fhew themfelves on the Cure: 
fide of the unopen’d Flower, and are faint in this 
Appearance; by Degrees they glow with much more > 
Life and Spirit; and when we have many Days 
admir’d them in this State, the Petals feparate : we 
fee into the Flower; and we think lightly of the out- 
fide Streaks and Bluthes, from Comparifon with the 
embroidered Tinés within. 
ag opens flowly, and the Colours glow more 
intenfely as the Flower admits the Sin and Air: 
at length the Petals fpread themfelves wide afun- 
der, and for a Week longer we have the full Difplay 
of the higheft Colouring. After this, the Shades 
faint 5 
and Lights lofe themfelves.; the Colours grow 
and the Flower foon after fades. Its Du- 
_yation is very confiderable ; I have feen it in the 
feveral Stages of Beauty, a Month. 
The Characters of the Tulip we have had Occa- 
-fion to name already, and they are in no Species or 
Variety more obvious or diftinét than in this. 
Six very long and large Buttons fhew themfelves 
in the Centre, and refer the Plant to the Hexan- 
dria, and in the Midft of them appears a large 
three parted Stigma, or Head, which being fingle 
in the Body, and fix’d upon a fingle Rudiment of 
a Seed-veffel, declares it one of the Monogynia. 
The yellow is fometimes as pale as_ 
The Cold of the 
large; and this Stigma has no Style: but we 
have told the Student, that thefe terminating 
Parts are to be counted, and the Buttons and 
the Stigma remark’d for Chara¢ters, when thofe 
flender Parts which naturally fupport them, are 
deficient or inconfpicuous. 
The reit of the Tulip Character confifts in the 
Flower having fix Petals, and no Cup, and the 
Seed-veffel being three-fquare, long, and divided 
into three Cells, with flat Seeds, feparated by 
Culture of this Turtp. 
~The Management of this Tulip muft be the 
fame in general with that of the other earlier Kinds 
of which we have fpoken ; and it will be explain’d 
more at large in a fucceeding Number devoted to 
the Tulip Kind. 
What is particularly to be regarded in the Cul- 
ture of this elegant Flower, mutt be to give it a. 
Situation where it is defended from the rough 
Winds, but has not too much Sun; in this we 
confult the long Duration of the Flowers; for the 
Sun makes them fade. 
The Gardener needs not to fear its fuffering 
for want of the genial Influence of that common 
Parent of Flowers; for Experience in our own 
Gardens, and elfewhere, what we have feen, and 
what we read, jointly declare that it defies the 
Cold. 
; ‘ 
I have try’d the Experiment between a warmer 
and a mote fhady Bed; and have found the 
Flowers, where there was more Sun, faded ten 
Days fooner than thofe in the Shade ; and that the 
Colouring was better in Proportion as there came 
lefs full Sun upon the Bed. 
In the more Northern Parts of Europe no 
Species flowers fo well. There is a ereat Va- 
riety of this Kind in Rufia; and the Multitude of 
fine Tulips in the common Gardens of Denmark, 
are principally from this Stock. Thefe were the 
Tulips mention’d by Mr. Hensuaw, in his Ob- 
fervations on Denmark, which the-Public owes to 
Dr. Bircu, more faithful than nice in his Col- 
leCtions *, 
* Hift. of Royal Society. 
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