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happiest instances of naming on record, 
for an exceptionally famous gardener 
has had an exceptionally fine Tulip 
called after him. 
How much too could be written and 
told about the battle of the Tulips, 
when northern and southern England 
differed over the particular points that 
went to make a fine bloom. Purity of 
base, said one side, is even more neces- 
sary than even and correct markings. 
The correct shape for the flower as a 
whole caused much strong language, no 
small quota of which may be read in 
such periodicals as Gossip of the Garden 
or the above mentioned Midland 
Florist. 
A LL this surely interests the man or 
l woman whose interest in the race 
is more than eye deep. The eye is all 
very well but it is not the whole of us; 
and 1 feel a more lasting pleasure may 
be derived from Tulips if we try to master 
their history and to take an interest in 
the way they have appeared in literature 
— in their monographs like Le Floriste 
Francois (1654); ' n the old, old repre- 
sentations of flowers like those exquisite 
pre-mania copper plates in the Hortus 
Floridus of Crispin de Pas (1614); in 
that novel of the early sixties of world- 
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FROM THE FIRST TULIP MONOGRAPH 
This old rarity seems to have been printed at Caen 
in 1654, the frontispiece (reproduced above) being 
printed at Rouen and added in 1658 
wide fame, La Tulipe Noire by Alexan- 
der Dumas; in the skits that they have 
suggested to L.a Bruyere and later still 
to the incomparable Alphonse Karr; in 
the writings of a strictly historical and 
scientific kind that they have inspired, 
such as J. G. Baker’s Revision of the 
Genera and Species of Tulipeae in the 
Linnean Society’s Journal of Botany , or 
the many writings of Emile Levier on 
the origin of the so called Neotulips; 
and lastly, in that veritable storehouse 
of information, Solms-Laubach’s “Wei- 
zen und Tulipe,” published at Leipsic 
in 1899. 
I HOPE I may have said, in this exceed- 
ingly sketchy enumeration of some of 
the main points of literary and historical 
interest which are centred round the 
Tulip, enough to show what a mine of 
pleasure lies beneath the flaming beds 
of Darwins or the quieter and more 
subdued tones of Breeders — for these, 
to an unthinking or uninformed enthu- 
siast, might so easily seem to be all that 
it is necessary to consider. Let me end 
by quoting Rudyard Kipling to empha- 
size that it is by no means so — just 
changing “Garden” to “Tulip” — “But 
the glory of the Tulip lies in more than 
meets the eye.” 
FOUR FALL-FEEDING CATERPILLARS 
HAROLD CLARKE 
Certain Late Comers Make Their Appearance After the Spraying of Spring 
and Early Summer Has Been Done and Therefore Escape Its Action 
HERE are four late summer- 
and early fall-feeding insects 
lf|®#g which 1 have observed very 
If lr (P^ frequently in recent seasons 
— the fall web-worm, the yellow- 
necked and the red-humped cater- 
pillars, and the Hickory tussock moth. 
The most prominent of these 
is the fall web-worm. In the 
north there is but one brood 
of these, making its appear- 
ance early in August. It re- 
sembles the tent-caterpillar 
of spring very closely in ap- 
pearance and work, but there 
is a difference which even the 
casual observer can hardly 
fail to notice. 
The tent-caterpillar most 
always builds its nest in a 
crotch of a small branch, 
stretching it on the twigs so 
as to give it the form of an 
inverted tent. But the fall 
web-worm usually starts near 
the end of a branch and encloses all 
the leaves on which it is feeding 
within the web. When the leaves 
on one branch have been eaten they 
move to another, enclosing it as they 
go; so that a badly infested tree soon 
has its branches enclosed in webs. 
Hickory Tiger-moth 
and pupae 
THE THREE INVARIABLE FORMS OF CATERPILLAR EVOLUTION 
From the mummy-like pupal shell the matured form or moth emerges and 
from the eggs laid by this winged creature hatch the tiny larvae or 
“worms” that do the eating, and consequently the damage, as they grow 
T 
Yellow- necked caterpillar 
Red-humped caterpillar 
The Fall Web-worm 
HE ADULTS of the fall 
web-worm are white 
moths one to one and one- 
quarter inches across, some- 
times spotted with black. 
The young which do the 
damage, are pale yellow with 
brownish markings. In a 
month to six weeks from 
hatching about mid-July the 
caterpillars become full 
grown (about an inch long), 
and the bodies are covered 
with long black and white 
hairs which project from the 
numerous black tubercles 
