TULIPS AND VIOLETS. 



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Tulips are gorgeous plants, and from their more drooping habit of growth are often used 

 for hanging pots and baskets. 



Selection of May-flowering Single Tulips. 



This selection includes several species and supposed hybrids of considerable beauty. 



acuminata, yellow and red, 

 curious. 



Buonaventura, scarlet and gold, 

 elegans, crimson. 



,, alba, white, carmine edge, 

 fulgens, crimson. 



Admiral de Constantinople, scarlet 

 and orange. 



canmnea, rosy carmine. 

 Cordelia, rosy purple. 

 Dorothy, mauve and white. 

 Erguste, bluish heliotrope. 



Gala Beauty, red and yellow. 

 Gesneriana Major, scarlet, black | 



eye. 



Golden Beauty, rich yellow. 

 Golden Crown, yellow and red. 

 macrospeila, scarlet, fragrant. 



Selection of Parrot Tulips. 



Crimson Beauty, crimson. 

 I Large Yellow, yellow. 



Selection of Darwin Tulips. 



Early Dawn, rosy lake. 

 Firebrand, brilliant scarlet. 

 Glow, bright vermilion. 



Loveliness, satiny rose. 



Picotee, white, rose edge, 

 retrottexa, yellow, 

 sylvestris, yellow, fragrant, 

 viridiflora praecox, green and 

 yellow. 



Perfecta, yellow and scarlet. 



May Queen, rosy lake. 

 Phyllis, white, shaded lilac. 

 Scarlet Beauty, orange scarlet. 

 Sultan, rich maroon. 



Selection of Tulip Species. 



These flower at various times, and present much variety in habit and form 



australis, yellow, 

 biflora major, cream. 

 Clusiana, white, red stripes. 

 Didieri, vermilion. 



Kaufmanniana, rosy white. 

 Kolpakowskiana, vermilion. 

 Leichtlini, red and white, 

 lanata, scarlet. 



linifolia, scarlet. 



maculata, crimson and black. 



,, alba, white. 

 Greigi, various, orange -scarlet to 

 yellow. 



To these may be added acuminata, Gesneriana Major, sylvestris, and viridiflora prsecox, for which see list of 

 May-flowering Single Tulips. 



prsecox, crimson, 

 persica, yellow, 

 saxatilis, rose, 

 suaveolens, scarlet, 

 violacea, carmine red. 

 vitellina, primrose. 



1 THE VIOLET. 



" Sweet Violets" are varieties of Viola odorata, and are welcomed by every one on 

 account of their delicious perfume as well as for the beauty of their flowers, com- 

 paratively small though these are. In winter and early spring the violet is especially 

 acceptable, and a great deal of pains is generally taken with its culture in these seasons. 

 For flowering during the winter under glass the double Neapolitan varieties are pre- 

 ferable to the Eussian section. Not only do they produce far more flowers in a given 

 time, but double violets are most appreciated. They cannot be relied upon to stand 

 unprotected through a severe winter, whereas the Russian type is not often much injured 

 and seldom killed outright — another good reason for giving up all the available glass 



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