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NEW BOEDER TULIPS. 
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NEW BORDER TULIPS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
OME time since we gave an illustration of a remarkable new species of 
Tulip — T'uUpa Greigi —a very choice addition to the not too abundant 
hardy ornamental bulbs in cultivation in our gardens. We have now the 
pleasure of introducing figures of two other new species, namely, Tiilipa 
Eichleri (fig. 1), and Tulipa Hageri (fig. 2). These are all of a type‘altogether 
distinct from the Tulips of the florist, and may rather be classed amongst our 
hardy border flowers—which have the advantage of being everybody’s flowers. 
Tulipa Eichleri is a native of Georgia, where it was discovered by M. Eichler, 
after whom it is named. It has small ovate bulbs; one-flowered pubescent stems, 
6 in. high ; alternate, lanceolate, minutely pubescent, glaucous-green leaves ; and 
broadly-campanulate flowers 3 in. in diameter, the perianth segments obovate, 
j of a deep crimson, “ with a broad wedge-shaped dark violet-blue spot at the base, 
which is margined with yellow,” as described by Dr. Hooker, in the Botanical 
Magazine (t. 6,191), where it is figured from specimens obtained from H. J. 
Elwes, Esq., with whom it flowered during the spring months in great beauty. 
Tulipa Hageri is a more slender-growing but very beautiful species, from the 
mountains of Attica in Greece, also figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6,242) 
from Mr. Elwes’ specimens. In this the bulb is ovoid, the stem smooth, one- 
^ flowered, 6 in. high, the leaves linear-lorate, green and glabrous, and the flowers 
j 
] broadly campanulate, each perianth segment light crimson on the inner surface, and 
^ tinged with yellow exteriorly, and having a rhomboid purple-black blotch with 
j a distinct yellow border at its base. 
3 Writing of M. Leichtlin’s garden in one of our contemporaries, Mr. Elwes 
j observes that, “ The culture of bulbs, though very much gone out of fashion in 
j England, is one extremely well adapted to all amateurs whose aspirations rise 
beyond the common ‘ bedding decorative stuff.’ They require none of the 
I training, pruning, syringing, and constant trouble which many greenhouse plants 
give. They take up very little space, and though their flowers are not as a rule 
very lasting, yet there is a constant succession at all seasons. If one can only 
learn when and how to water them, the secret of their culture is in most cases 
attained, but watering too much at one season, and too little at another, is, I 
: believe, the cause of death in nine cases out of ten.” He goes on to say that M. 
Leichtlin considers it advantageous, though not in all cases necessary, to lift such 
bulbs as Fritillarias, Colch\cums, Tulips, &c., every year, and if they are kept in 
pots of sand and planted early, they are never injured by it. “ AVith the bulbs 
of most Amaiyllidaceous plants it is, however, very different; their roots are 
thick, fleshy, and do not perish, so that, though it is necessary in most cases to 
give them a season of rest and drought, it is better to disturb the roots as little 
as possible,” while the drying must not be carried to excess.—T. Moore. 
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