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BULLETIN 
DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
The largest and most popular after the single earlies are the breed- 
ers. 1 The flowers are self-colored except the base. They are divided 
into Dutch, English, and Darwins — the 
Dutch with a cup-shaped flower, the Eng- 
lish with a hemispherical flower, and the 
Darwins with a rectangular-based flower. 
The Dutch and English breeders are again 
subdivided into three divisions: Eoses, 
which are pink to red in color, the ground 
or tissue of the petals below the epidermis 
being white; Bybloemen, which are purple 
to violet and also have a white ground ; and 
Bizarres, which have shades of scarlet to 
bronze with a yellow ground. 
As stated elsewhere, the broken tulips 
are subdivided the same as the breeders 
from which they are derived. Their irregu- 
lar distribution of the epidermal colors 
superimposed upon white or yellow grounds 
gives very brilliant and attractive effects. None of the varieties, 
however, are as vigorous as the breeders from which they are derived. 
Fig. 29. — Narcissus Poeticu* 
Ornatus (Poeticus group). 
Fig. 30. — The Double Van Sion narcissus. Experimental planting at Bellinghain, Wash* 
SECTION I. 
Early flowering. (Id full flower before the end of April.) 
A. Due van Tltoll. — The earliest of all. Single dwarf, rarely exceeding 6 inches 
in height. May be had in a variety of colors and commonly listed as Due 
van Tholl red, Due van Tholl white, etc. 
The single earlies are also breeders. 
