232 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



TULIPS AT WISLEY, 1906-07. 



Thirteen hundred and thirty stocks of bulbs were received in the 

 autumn of 1905, planted in November of that year, and lifted in splendid 

 condition in mid-July 190G. In the autumn of 1906 sixty additional 

 stocks were received, and the whole collection was replanted in November. 

 From mid-April to the end of May in both years the brilliant display 

 of flower attracted considerable attention. Excluding synonyms and 

 duplicates, the 1,390 stocks comprised 895 distinct varieties, including 

 87 single, 58 double, 7 parrot, 231 May-flowering and species, 65 

 Rembrandt, and 456 Darwin. In both years the trial was inspected 

 from time to time by the Floral (Tulip) Committee, and several awards 

 were made, but unfortunately in both seasons the appointed visit of the 

 Committee to inspect the later-flowering varieties among the Darwins and 

 May-flowering was frustrated by ill weather. The bulbs have been, 

 however, again lifted in good condition, and will be again replanted ; and 

 it is hoped that the Floral Committee will be able to again inspect 

 the varieties in the spring of 1908. Bulbs were received from English, 

 Irish, and Dutch growers, but no material differences were perceived with 

 regard to their respective vigour and period of flowering, with the 

 exception of the stocks from Messrs. de Graaff. These, owing to a special 

 method of ripening or storing the bulbs, flowered about a week later than 

 other stocks of similar varieties ; but in the second year of planting this 

 difference practically disappeared. Various packing materials were used 

 by the donors ; bulbs packed in buckwheat husk, or cork dust arrived in 

 excellent condition, but a considerable number of stocks packed in sawdust 

 arrived both soft and mildewed, owing to excess of moisture. 



The following summary includes all the varieties in the trial that 

 have been certificated or commended by the Floral and Tulip Com- 

 mittees : — 



I. Early Singles (Nos. 1-101). 



White. — Brunhilde, David Teniers, Joost van Vondel white, Potte- 

 bakker white, Snowdrift, Snowflake. 



Rosa. — Flamingo, Jenny, La Precieuse, Le Matelas, rink Beauty, 

 Princess "Wilhelmina, Rosamundi, Rose luisante, Rose Queen. 



Bed. — Artus, Couleur Cardinal, Cramoisi Brillant, Maes, Pottebakker 

 Verboom, Sir Thos. Lipton, Waterloo. 



Orange. — Hector, Prince of Austria, Thomas Moore. 



Yellow. — Boule d'Or, Canary Bird, Chrysolora, Golden Queen, Mon 

 Tn'sor. 



lied and Yellow. — Due do Malakoff, Duchesse de Parma, Golden 

 Lion, Keizerskroon, Village Boy. 



Other ('"lours. -Epaminondas Flaked (red and white), Joost van 

 Vondc] (crimson), Kohinoor (maroon), Lac d'Asturie (crimson and white), 

 La Heine (white and rose), La Remarquable (claret), Le Reve (bronze- 



