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has a specially good-coloured flower it is best 
to increase by division, to be quite certain of 
having more of the same. Take up the plant 
when it has done flowering and pull it into as 
many little plants as you can, putting them 
carefully into the ground in a cool and shady 
place. To be certain of keeping a stock of a 
particular kind of this, or many other flowers, 
the seeds alone must not be trusted to. The 
bees carry the pollen so easily from one flower 
to another that reds, mauves, and yellows get 
mixed, and the result of growing from seed is 
to produce plants of almost every shade. It is 
by careful selection from these that new shades 
of colour deserving of special names have been 
obtained. Wilson’s blue is one of these newer 
kinds, with very distinctly bluish petals. 
Out of the wood and shade, in the sunny 
beds or borders, there can be a blaze of brilliant 
red, with one of the showiest of spring flowers, 
the tulip. When tulips were first introduced 
from the East into Europe, over three hundred 
years ago, they created such a sensation that 
people got more excited over growing them than 
they have over any flower before or since. The 
greatest centre of this “rage” was Holland, 
and “ tulip fever,” as it is called, reached its 
height there, and it is still in that country that 
the greatest number of bulbs are raised, and 
