HiXANDRIA LlNNJtt. 
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double O R I F L a M M E. 
tulip A GESNERIANA MULTIPLEX. 
/r^Riflamme is a name given, long fince, to a fpecious f.ngle Tulip, from its colours, 
O which were fuppofed to imitate thofe of the ant.ent facred banner o he Frbnch ; 
whofe tints were blood and gold. I do not know, that before tins year, n has been 
feen double. This was the happy effea of a regulated culture : .t was r.ns d m England. 
and is added to the Plants of this colleaion, not alone fo^ 'ts beauty but becaufe rt will 
ferve very happily to explain the courfe of nature m doubling the Bulbous rooted. 
Hexandrous Flowers. 
The Leaves, the Root, and the whole afpea of the Plant are the fame with thofe 
of the fingle Tulip from which it fprings ; but the Stalk is Ihorter. This confirms the 
opinion advanc’d before in fpeaking of the Rofeate Nyaanthes, that the force of nature 
burfting into bloom, at a Icfs growth in height than ufual, favours the doublenefs of 
Flowers : more Petals being form’d, becaufe there is more nourifliment fent thither. 
In this Plate we fee the fingle and the double Flower together, and as the parts are all 
large and confpicuous, we (hall trace without great difficulty how the change is made. 
Double Tulips have hitherto been frighted, becaufe they were irregularly doubled ; and 
rofe as chance dirc-aed : this will perhaps bring them into repute, and the gardener may 
have them thus regularly double, if he yvill follow the method of a proper culture. 
The fingle Tulip confifts of three parts ; the Petals or Leaves which are fix, the fila- 
ments with their buttons alfo fix, and a rudiment of a Seed-veflel. Thefe are con- 
fpicuous in the fingle Flower ; in the double the fix outer Petals, and the rudiment 
of the Sced-velTel remain unalter’d, therefore the change is not made from them ; but 
the fix Filaments are loft entirely. Hence reafon fays the additional Petals are made out 
of the Filaments : and this experience confirms. 
The doublenefs of a Tulip will be favoured by this culture. When the fingle Tulip 
is in the bud, juft before it would have open’d, cut it down. Water the Root flightly, 
morning and evening, and at the ufual feafon take it up. Plant it again with marie in 
the mould ; and the next year ufe the fame caution ; many may be thus manag’d at 
once, for a few of them only will come double, as is the cafe in Anemones and many 
other Flowers. Of thefe fuch only as Ihew a tendency to doublenefs the fecond year, 
are to be treated thus, the following, and fo on for the fucceeding feafons. The firft 
tendency to doublenefs is to^be feen in the Filaments ; they grow broader and more flat. 
After this, it comes on thus : the Filaments grow yet broader and fplit like forks, the 
button ftanding in the middle of the divifion : then, in the fucceeding years, the new 
Petals grow broader, and the points wear off ; at length the rudiment of the button allb 
fades away, and there are then fix new Petals like the fix firft : after this, each fplits flat- 
wife into two, and they become twelve, lb that the Flower confifts of eighteen Petals 
with no remains of buttons. This is the perfefl double Tulip. 
Tulipa fpeciolillima aothcrum. 
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