TU'LIPA GESNERIA'NA. 
Var. Cramoise pourpre. 
GESNERS TULIP. 
Class. 
hexandria. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACF-jE. 
Order. 
MONOGXNIA. 
Garden 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised 
Origin. 
2 feet. 
April, May 
Bulb. 
in 1850. 
No. 1248 
The propagation of the Tulip from seed involves 
no great amount of horticultural knowledge ; but 
to develope the value of such seedlings — to “break” 
them, as it is technically termed, that is, to facili- 
tate their development of brilliant pencillings of 
clear colour, is an art of which little is known. As 
is premised at No. 1197, these beautiful pencillings 
of the flower, are dependent on the plant being 
placed in a state of health differing from that which 
it attains under common circumstances in its native 
localities. This abnormal state is said to be effected 
by cultivation, or rather by starvation, in poor soil; 
but at present such cultivation is a mode of proceed- 
ing guided by no fixed principles ; and is at present, 
with Tulip growers, more nor less than hap-hazard 
management, which sometimes, after a series of 
years, proves itself efficient by chance. 
The first object towards obtaining good seedlings 
is the securing of good seeds. Those produced by un- 
broken flowers, that is, flowers of one colour, usually 
called breeders, of good shape and strength of petal, 
are preferred. Propagators are unanimous in their 
opinion that seeds obtained from striped and 
