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EARLY SINGLE TULIPS FOR BEDS AND POT CULTURE. 
THE TULIP. 
The Tulip in Spring is the most effective flower of the Season ; its colours are diversified and beautiful. 
It is extremely hardy and of the easiest possible culture, succeeding in any ordinary soil, and flowering with the 
same freedom in the shade as in the sunshine, while it is as much at home in a confined town garden as in 
more favoured situations. In front of shrubs, rows of Tulips, mixed double and single maintain a display for 
a lone period, and in this respect they excel almost any other Spring flower. In beds of distinct colours, or 
the colours intermingled, Tulips are always objects of admiration. In gardens of limited extent, and where the 
flower beds must be kept gay from the first opening of Spring, the surface of the beds may be planted with 
Foreet-me-not, Silene, Collinsia bicolor, etc., and so arranged, that the floral display is maintained till the 
Summer bedding plants are ready to take their place. An effective display preceding the Tulips can also be had 
by planting the beds with Scilla sibirica, Snowdrops, or Crocus. 
63 T From our Collection we have omitted several which we consider superseded, and have replaced 
them by others of greater merit, this being the result of the extensive trials continually going on at our 
Experimental Grounds. early SINGLE TUL i PS . 
No other section of the Tulip displays so great a diversity of delicate, striking, and attractive colours as 
these Of seifs there arc beautiful scarlets, crimsons, whites, and yellows. Of parti-colours, there are snow- 
white grounds, striped and feathered with purple, violet, crimson, rose, puce, and cerise ; and yellow grounds, 
with crimson, scarlet, and red flakes and feathers ; so that only those who have cultivated the varieties of liarly 
Single Tulips systematically can form any just idea of their beauty, when massed in beds or groups in the flower 
border and when grown three in a pot for indoor decoration. There is nothing gaudy about these flowers or 
objectionable to the most refined taste ; the form, the colours, and the combinations are graceful and pleasing m 
the extreme. . 77 . 
The First Prize for Tulips was awarded to us by the Royal Botanic Society, at their Exhibition of March last. 
633 Due Van Thol, scarlet, edged yellow ; this very early dwarf Tulip can be had in bloom from November. 
It is best grown three to twelve in a pot ; and, where numerous jardincts have to be furnished, 
the practice of the growers for Covent Garden Market should be followed— that is, plant in shallow boxes 
as thickly as the bulbs can be placed together, force gently and give plenty of water, and as the bulbs 
come into bloom arrange them in the jardincts as required. 14*. 6 d. per 100, 2 s. per dozen. 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS FOR OUT-DOOR CULTURE OR FOR POTS. 
THESE ARE SPLENDID IN BEDS, GROUPS, RIBBONS, RUSTIC BASKETS, VASES, FLOWER BOXES, ETC. 
OUR OWN SELECTIONS. 
634 
636 
636 
637 
638 
10 each of 20 of the following splendid varieties 2 5 
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Fine mixed, 38 s. per 1,000, 4 s. per 100, 9 d. per dozen. 
Choice mixed, 50*. ,, $s. 6d. ,, is, „ 
per 100. per doz, 
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539 Ardemus, rich crimson , narrowly 
margined yellow io 
540 Arms of Leyden, white, conspicu- 
ously stained with rose io 
641 Canary Bird, beautiful yellow 18 
642 Cardinal, carmine-red , very effective 10 
643 Chrysolora, pure yellow, large and 
handsome *4 
644 Couleur Cardinal, crimson-scarlet... 12 
645 Couleur Ponceau, rich cerise 5 
546 Couronne Pourpre, velvety crimson 7 
547 Drapeau de France, rose lilac 15 
648 Due Major, red, edged yellow 7 
549 Due Van Thol, blush rose 17 
d. 
6...1 6 
650 
brilliant scarlet 
651 
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bright yellow 
652 
carmine 
653 
vermilion 
554 
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pure white 
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660 Golden Prince, pure yellow 7 
661 Imp erator Gris deline, wh i te,fea th ered 
lake iS 0...2 o 
562 Keizerskroon, crimson-scarlet, deeply 
edged bright yellow, very handsome 17 6... 2 6 
563 La Belle Alliance, brilliant 
crimson-scarlet 14 0...2 o 
664 Lac Van Rhelm, rose-violet, deeply 
margitied with pure white 5 0...1 o 
665 Molier $, purple-violet, showy 12 0...1 9 
666 Paul Moreelze,</c<y> carmine 12 0...1 9 
667 Pottebakker Yellow 18 0...2 6 
568 ,, White, pure white, bold 
handsome flower 12 6...1 9 
569 Queen Victoria, white, tinged rose... 5 6...1 o 
670 Rose Grisdeline, rose, tinged white... 5 6...1 o 
571 Rose Luisante, beautiful rose, lars>e 18 0...2 6 
672 Rose Tendre, white and crimson ... 12 6. ..2 o 
673 Samson Crimson, crimson-scarlet... 12 6... 2 o 
674 Silver Standard, scarlet, striped and 
feathered pure white 10 0...1 6 
575 Thomas Moore, glossy apiicot, very 
pretty, and quite distinct 5 0...1 o 
676 Yellow Prince, pure yellow , a fine 
bedding var. 5 0...1 o 
655 Duchesse de Parma, orange-crimson 
edged yellow, showy 5 
656 Duke of York, rose-lilac, edged white 10 
557 Eleonore, violet-purple ... 10 
558 FranciscusPrimus,z^//.,j/fa^c^/j<? 15 
559 Golden Eagle, pure yellow 10 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS, NEWER VARIETIES. 
The following newer kinds show considerable advances in shape, colour, and increased size of flower— 
points of great importance for in-door culture. Amateurs desirous of having a named collection of Early Single 
Tulips, or who may have some select bed where they would like to have as great a variety and as much beauty 
as possible combined, would do well to purchase one or more of each variety enumerated in the two collections. 
P 577 One bulb each from Nos. 639 to 624, 18s. | 678 Three bulbs each from Nos. 639 to 624, S or. 
OUR OWN SELECTIONS. 
*. d. 
679 xoo in 50 splendid varieties 21 
680 100 in 33 ,, , J 7 
681 50 in 50 ,, 12 
586 Splendid mixed, from fine named varieties, 70s. per 1,000, 7 s. 6 d. per 100, ir. 3d. per dozen, 
582 
683 
581 
50 in 
25 in 
12 in 
23 splendid varieties 10 
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