822 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MAY-FLOWERING COTTAGE AND SPECIES TULIPS. 



Report on the Haarlem Tulip Trials, 1901. 



By Ernst H. Krelage. 



The revived and increasing interest in May- flowering Tulips induced the 

 Council of the General Bulb Cultural Society of Haarlem to arrange trials 

 of this class of Tulips last May. The trials were held on May 14 and 21. 

 On the first day sixteen growers sent 321 vases with flowers, and on the 

 second day twenty-six growers were represented by 026 vases. The 

 Nomenclature Committee * inspected all the varieties in order — 



(a) To fix one official name for each variety ; 



(b) If possible, to furnish an accurate description of each variety ; 



and 



(c) To prepare a report for the members of the Society. 



It has been suggested by some of our friends across the water to 

 publish a report of the trials in English for the use of British Tulip- 

 growers and amateurs, and I have much pleasure in preparing such a 

 report. The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. xxv. p. 178, 

 contains a similar report on the Tulip trials held at Chiswick in 1900, 

 and as the Haarlem Committee have tried to keep to the names fixed at 

 Chiswick as far as possible, the two reports complete each another. 



I should say that the report below has not an official character, as the 

 form of the Dutch report proved unsuitable for translation for the use of 

 British readers. I have, therefore, preferred to publish the results of the 

 Haarlem Tulip trial in a more concise fonii by preparing one general list 

 of all the varieties inspected, by completing the descriptions not given in 

 the Dutch publication, and by adding literary references and a complete 

 list of synonyms. The alphabetical order is not an ideal one, and some 

 classification of the May-flowering Tulips according to shape of flowers or 

 similar characters will doubtless prove necessary in the near future. Such 

 classification can, however, only be fixed by mutual consent and after 

 careful deliberation, and I have therefore chosen the alphabetical 

 arrangement for the present. 



The Haarlem Committee, as a rule, have tried to fix the shortest and 

 fancy names, to reject Latin names, unless already quite familiar, and to 

 drop such indefinite specific (?) names as Gesneriana and Billieticma, &c., 

 for varieties, whose descent from the species named seems at least very 

 doubtful. 



Only a very few of the varieties sent for inspection have not yet been 

 registered, but the work of the Committee has practically been completed 

 as far as all the best known cottage Tulips are concerned. The task of 

 the Committee did not include the other strains of late Tulips, such as 

 Breeder, Darwin, and Rembrandt Tulips, Bizarres, Bybloemen (Violettes)^ 



* Messrs. Ernst H. Krelage (in the Chair), P. W. Voet (Hon. Sec), J. de Graaff, 

 J. M. C. Hoog, G. van der Horst, E. Kersten, G. J. van Meeuwen, A. Eoozen, jun,,and 

 C. Geytenbeek, jun. 



