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TULIPS, EARLY DOUBLE AND SINGLE MAY-FLOWERING SPECIES. 
DOUBLE TULIPS. 
Double TullpB have massive flowers of brilliant, diversified, and beautiful colours, and are suitable for 
beds on the lawn, terrace, etc., also as edgings to Rose beds and shrubberies. Planted in groups of three or 
more in flower and shrubbery borders, they are very effective. 
For sectional lines, where the Single Tulip is planted in designs, the Tournesol, No. 636, is most valuable ; 
it is also the best to force for early. flowering, and is extensively grown for Covent Garden Market. Imperator 
Rubrorum is the best scarlet, and Tournesol Yellow the best of the yellows. For indoor decoration, the Double 
Tulip should be planted three bulbs in a pot, and receive the same cultural treatment as the Hyacinth. For 
beds or masses, Rex Rubrorum, scarlet, is the best to associate with La Candeur, white , and, so arranged, the 
effect is unrivalled amongst Spring flowers. Plant the bulbs six inches apart. 
OUR OWN SELECTIONS, 
s. d. 
617 3 each 12 splendid varieties 5 
618 1 ,, 12 ,, „ 2 
614 10 each 16 splendid varieties 20 -o 
616 6 ,, 16 „ 10 6 
616 3 ,, 16 „ „ 6 6 
620 Choice Mixed Double Tulips, for filling beds, grouping in mixed borders and shrubberies, where they are very 
eff ective and last long in beauty.forming a valuable succession to the single Tulips, p. too, 5/6; p. doz. 10 it. 
621 Early Double Due Van Thol, red, margined yellow. This dwarf showy very early Tulip is useful for 
edgings and broad marginal lines, also to force with the Early Single Due Van Thol Tulips, 
41. 6./. per 100 ; 8 d. per dozen. 
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622 Couronne de Cerise, deep cerise, 
very beautiful 8 6...1 3 
623 Couronne des Roses, true, very 
beautiful rich pure rose, early 5 6 
624 Gloria Solis, scarlet, deeply edged 
with bright yellmv, fine 6 6...1 o 
626 Harlequin, pure white striped, 
crimson very large, showy and 
handsome 12 6. ..2 o 
626 Imperator Rubrorum, rich crim- 
son-scarlet, beautiful 16 6. ..2 3 
627 La Candeur, purewhite 5 6...0 10 
628 Mariage de ma Fille, beautiful pure 
white, with cherry-coloured strife, 
late 17 6 ... 2 6 
629 Murillo, rose and white, a most beau- 
tiful variety 15 0...2 6 
per 100. per doz. 
530 Overwinnaar, white, striped rose- 
violet, very handsome , late 
531 Pseony Gold, crimson, striped gold , 
handsome and showy 
532 ilex Rubrorum, brilliant crimson- 
scarlet, splendid 
533 Rosalie, beautiful deep carmine-rose 
534 Rose Blanche, the purest and best 
double white Tulip 
535 Salvator Rosa, fine delicate rose, 
early 
53C Tournesol, scarlet , edged yellow, 
very beautiful, early 
637 Tournesol Yellow, yellow, flushed 
orange , very fine, early 
538 Yellow Rose, very beautiful pure 
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SHOWY AND BEAUTIFUL MAY-FLOWERING TULIPS. 
This important section of Tulips connects, so to speak, the Spring and Summer flowers, and the appreciation 
of them is annually becoming more apparent, from the ready sale and high prices realized for their cut 
flowers, and the off-repeated enquiry for the " old-faTiioned Tulips of cottage gardens; 1 ' these usually consist 
of the di-carded self-coloured unbroken seedlings of florists' flowers. During the first half of the present century 
florists’ Tulips were the delight of thousands of amateurs from the Land’s End to John O'Groat’s House, andin 
Holland at an earlier date. A change of taste set in with the " bedding-out system," and our grandfather's 
flowers had to take a back seat; the number of amateurs gradually dwindled, and now few collections are to be 
found in the Home, or Southern Counties, but around Manchester the amateur is still to be found amongst the 
ranksof those who toil and those who live in affluence, and over the Tulip beds, and at the Tulip Shows, the master 
and servant meet in healthy rivalry and discuss the meiits of this or that variety of Bizarres, Byblcemens or Roses, 
these being the divisions into which florists’ Tulips are divided. Blzarres arc those with the ground-colour yellow; 
Byblcemens, the ground-colour while ; Roses, the ground colour white. The amateur of the future will have 
no reason to complain of the period of apathy of the masses, as the few were not idle. Fine varieties continued to 
be raised, and severe selection became tire order of the day, so that Holland who formerly Jed the van is now 
completely in the rear, and England can boast of being the stockholder of the finest florists 1 ulips in Europe. 
We are not, however, concerned solely with our grandfather’s Tulips, for beyond these have sprung up a number 
of quasi species of a highly decorative character, and to these we have given time and attention in getting them 
together, and hope annually to make additions of such sorts as are decorative in' May, and can be 
naturalized or planted in permanent flower borders, shrubberies, or used for filling beds, etc. Mr. William 
Robinson in his paper at the Conference on Hardy Flowers, described his success in naturalizing 1 uli pa sylvestris, 
and recommends naturalizing Tulips in copses or drives through woods. If in cottage gardens, Tulips, such as 
we have referred to, remain uninjured and undisturbed for many years, why should not the same success attend 
their being naturalized in copses, etc.? 
539 Florists' Tulips, Bizarres, Bybloemens, and Roses, in choice mixture per 100, ys. 6 d.\ per doz. 1/3 
640 ,, Self-coloured, ■■ Old-fashioned Cottager's Tulips" in many 
shades of colour per 100, ior. bd.-, per doz. 1/6 
per doz. — each. 
s. d. s. d. 
541 Cornuta, yellow and red streaked, a 
curious Tulip, with fantastically 
twilled horn-like petals 3 6...0 4 
542 Elegans, true, large dark crimson, 
petals elegantly reflexed ... 3 6...0 4 
543 „ variegata, large crimson, 
striped gold, showy and handsome 4 6...0 6 
544 Fulgens, rich showy crimson 2 6...0 3 
645 Gesneriana major, large rich crim- 
son-scarlet flowers, with glittering 
blue-black centre ; a grand plant 
for distant effect in beds , lines or 
ribbons per ioo, 8/6 1 3...0 3 
per doz. — eacli. 
a. d. 8 . d. 
546 Golden Beauty, the richest and 
deepest golden colour of all Tulips, 
medium-sized flowers... p .100 12/6 2 0...0 3 
547 Golden Eagle (Golden Croum), large 
showy yellow flowers , edged crim- 
son, with pointed petals, p.ioo, 10/6 1 6 
648 MaciOBpeUa (new), large rich crim- 
son flowers , having large black spots , 
edged yellow in centre, very hand- 
some 7 6...° 9 
549 Narbonensis alba, pretty clear 
white , narrowly margined crim- 
son, elegantly pointed petals 3 6...0 4 
[Barr and Son, 
