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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING. 



Late or Clay FloVering *' DeCOratiOH Day " Garden Tulips.-Continued. 



rp^OT or Dragon Tulips. 



These belong to the late or May- 

 flowering Tulips, and have immense 

 attractive flowers of singxilar and pic- 

 turesque forms and brilliant and var- 

 ied colors. The petals are curiously 

 fringed or cut, and the form of the 

 flower, especially before it opens, re- 

 sembles the neck of a Parrot. They 

 form extravagantly showy flower 

 beds, an endless variety of form and 

 color, and should be grown in every 

 flower garden in quantities. (.S'^*' cut.) 

 If desired by mail., add 5c. per dozen or 



i,oc. per ICO. Single bulbs mailed free. 



Admiral de Constantinople. 



Large red flowers tipped orange. 3 

 for 10c. , 30c. per doz , $3 25 per 100. 



Monstre Rouge. Very handsome, 

 large, deep crimson scarlet. 3 for 

 10c. , 30c. per doz., $2.25 per 100. 



Monstre Cramolsie. Splendid 

 improvement, deep crimson with 

 large black star-shaped centre, flow- 

 ers and bulbs larger than other 

 Parrots 3 for lOc, 30c. per dcz.. 

 $2.25 per 100. 



Markgraff van Baden. Ye'low, 

 striped with scarlet and green. 3 ^or 

 lOc, 25c. per doz., $175perl00. 



Lutea Major. Large, bright yel- 

 low. 3 for lOc, 30c. per doz., $2.25 

 per 100. 



Perfecta. Yellow, striped red. S 

 for 10c. , 30c. per doz , ^ 25 per 100 



Parrot Tulips, Mixed Colors. 

 2 for 5c., 20c. per di z., $1.50 per 100. 



PARROT TULIPS 



fJeW "Darwin" Tulips 



These brilliant novelties constitute a new race of Tulips, 

 of the self-colored or " breeder " type. They are of Flemish 

 origin, and were raised from seed sown between the 

 years 1860 and 1872, this seed having been saved from 

 the best "breeders" out of the most famous collection 

 in French Flanders, which in turn had been undergo- 

 ing the process of selection in the hands of one family 

 for over a century. 



Darv/in Tulips belong to the late or May-flow- 

 ering section, destined to be extensively grown for bedding or 

 massing purposes. The flowers are very large, of symmetrical 

 form, and are borne on tall, strong stems, often two feet high. 

 They by far surpass in colors and brilliancy anything before known in 

 Tulips. The colors are so glowing and bright that in the sunlight the 

 effect is fairly dazzling. They include almost every conceivable color 

 and shade, from the daintiest blue to the darkest violet, from soft rose 

 to the most brilliant red, and from light brown to what is believed to be the 

 darkest black in the floral world. The magnificent appearance of the beds of 

 Darwin Tulips as we saw them in the introducer's grounds in Holland, in the 

 full flush of their beauty, defies description. 



They have been enthusiastically talked and written about by the horticultural ^ 

 of Europe, and at several exhibitions they have created a sensation. They caused quite 

 a furore at the last Paris Exposition. The six beds in the la%vn surrounding the 

 Trocadero (a place of honor) contained about three thousand bulbs of this strain, and 

 when in bloom they were the admiration of all visitors and ^vere awarded a gold ^^ 

 medal. (See cut.) — - 



Price, Darwin Tulips, mixed colors, 5c. each, 40c. per dozen, 



$2.50 per 1 00. 



:=: Named Varieties of Darwin Tulips. :=: 



Anton de Bary. Rich purplish wine. 

 Buys Ballot. Light carmine red. 

 Coros. Fiery rich blood scarlet. 

 Decamps. Mahogany red. 

 Europe. Bright orange crimson. 

 La petit Blondin. Silvery lilac 



shaded white. 

 Mad Lethierry. Rosy flesh color. 



Price for any of the above Named Darwin Tulips, 8c. each, 75c. 

 per doz., or the collection of 1 2 varieties for 75c.. free by mail. 



Mad. Bosboom Toussaint 



cherry criinson. 

 Prof. Balfour. Dark brownish blood 



red. 

 Prof. McOwan. Violet plue. 

 Reve de jeunesse. Lavender. 

 Terpischore. Heliotrope, shaded 



claret. 



DARWIN TUUP. 



