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called "arched" and "ribbed," often extend from this 

 broad stripe to the extremity of the leaves, the color 

 generally appearing strongest in the inside petals. A 

 Tulip with this broad colored stripe, which is sometimes 

 called "beamed,*' or "splashed," is, at the same time, 

 "'feathered" also. It is called "feathered" when it is 

 without this broad stripe, but yet having narrow lines 

 joined or detached, running up the center of the leaf, 

 sometimes branching out and curved towards the top, 

 and sometimes without any spot or line at all ; the petals 

 are feathered more or less around the edges or margin, 

 inside and out; the penciling, or feathering, is heavy or 

 broad in some, and light and narrow in others, some- 

 times with breaks or gaps, and sometimes close, and con- 

 tinued all around. 



Rose, or Rosy on White. — Variegated with rose, 

 scarlet, crimson or cherry color, on a white ground ; and 

 the feathered rose is to be distinguished from the flamed 

 by the rules already mentioned ; the rose is very often 

 both feathered and flamed. Of the three classes here 

 named, the last is decidedly to be preferred ; its colors 

 are more in harmony with the season ; they are spring- 

 like and cheery, while the others, though gorgeous and 

 rich, seem better fitted for autumn. 



Selfs. — These are the Breeder, or Mother Tulips; 

 the flowers are without markings, but with a yellow base, 

 the upper portion of the petals being self-colored, brown, 

 red, purple, scarlet, white, yellow or rose, with every 

 shade these colors are capable of producing; it is even 

 claimed that in this class has been found some that are 

 black. 



In the four classes it is much better, because 

 cheaper, to buy mixed bulbs : they are all grown from 

 named sorts, or, at least, they are mainly so. and will 

 give as much satisfaction as the higher priced sorts. If 

 we could have but one class it would be the Selfs, as we 



