GARDEN TULIP. 71 



The usual way of placing the bulbs in the 

 bed is by a regular mixture of the kinds, so 

 that two of a kind or colour shall not stand 

 together, and this for the purpose of giving 

 variety. But regular mixture is not variety. 

 Instead of a bybloemen, bizard, rose, &c. con- 

 stantly repeated in the same row, and then crossly 

 placed in the next, and again in the third, it 

 would be better, perhaps, that the different kinds 

 were grouped together ; not so much from such 

 disposition being agreeable to Nature, because a 

 flower-bed is too artificial an object to receive 

 any such character, but because it would be 

 more convenient for the purpose of comparison. 

 In looking" at tulips, we compare those of the 

 same kind with each other — bybloemens with 

 bybloemens, bizards with bizards, &c. ; and, 

 therefore, to see their identical or comparative 

 excellencies, they should be placed in juxta- 

 position. But as this is merely a matter of per- 

 sonal taste, it may be done properly either way. 



Description of a Jine Tulip. The florist's 

 taste differs from that of the common observer; 



