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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
DROOPING- FLOWERED VARIETIES. 
Flowers Rose and Rosy Crimson. 
* B. S. Williams. 
Ganios. 
Madame Patti. 
Prince Leopold. 
Piev. A. H. Bridges. 
* Gloria Mundi. 
Georges Sand. 
* Tricolore. 
* Etna. 
Flowers Dark Red and Crimson. 
J * Mr. Haines. 
Washington. 
Flowers Blue and Purple. 
* Alice. 
Charles Dickens. 
Marquis of Lome. 
Mammouth. 
* Prince Arthur. 
* Miss Hannah de Rothschild. 
N.B.—Three asterisks denote First-class Certificates ; one asterisk 
denotes a selection of the best varieties in their respective classes. 
XXIX.—Notes oh the Genus Tulipa. 
By H. J. Elwes. 
Though the Tulips are among tlie earliest flowers that have 
attracted the notice of gardeners, and though the mass of 
literature concerning them is so large that it would be almost 
impossible to go through it, yet our knowledge of many species 
in a wild state is still very imperfect. I much doubt whether 
it would be possible to trace many of our garden varieties to 
them origin; and even if I was able to do so, it would -be of 
little advantage, as the number of garden varieties is so large, 
and many of them are so very similar to each other, that they 
are better treated as florist flowers ; and as such they will no 
doubt always maintain a leading position among garden plants. 
As, however, during the last few years two of our most 
eminent botanists, Dr. Regel, Director of the Imperial Botanic 
Gardens at St. Petersburg,* and Mr. Baker, of the Royal 
Herbarium, Kew,f have revised and described the genus, I will 
endeavour to supplement these revisions by some notes on the 
species which have come under my observation in a living state,, 
as well as those which are not yet introduced to cultivation. 
* Descriptiones Plantarum, etc. Fasciculus I., pp. 37—57. St. 
Petersburg, July, 1873. E. Regel. 
f Revision of the Genera and Species of Tulipeae. J. G. Baker. Journal 
of Linnean Society Bot., Vol. XIV., 1874, pp. 275—96. 
