1877.] 
NOTES ON TULIPS. 
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PELARGONIUM PRINCESS OF WALES. 
WITH AN ILLUSTEATION. 
S his belongs to a small group of crispate varieties which are fast gaining 
ground in public favour, and which Mr. Bull, who has sent out most of 
them, calls Eegal Pelargoniums. The appearance of some of the varieties, 
is almost that of double flowers, so complete is this frilling of the edges 
often accompanied by an increase in the number of petals. The varieties known 
as Captain Eaikes, fiery-crimson ; Queen Victoria, vermilion, edged with white ; 
and Beauty of Oxton, maroon-crimson, edged with white, are familiar examples of 
this group, in which Mr. Bull also offers Elegantissimum, vermilion, edged with 
white; Madame Evrard, purplish-crimson ; Marie Augis, light rose-colour ; 
Prince of Pelargoniums, vermilion-scarlet, with violet veins; Prince of Wales, 
bright vermilion, with light edge ; and Princess of Wales, represented in the 
accompanying illustration, the two latter being new varieties of the present year. 
We have to thank Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, for the opportunity of preparing the 
figure now published, and we quote the following description of it from his 
catalogue for the present season :— 
“ An extremely beautiful variety, with very large and effective flowers, which 
are of a most pleasing colour,—rosy-lake, marbled and reticulated with white, 
large, clear, and distinct white centre, all the petals margined with white, and 
the upper ones blotched with maroon. An exceedingly attractive flower.” 
kir. Bull adds that this and the bright scarlet Prince of Wales may be pro¬ 
nounced two of the “ gems of the season.” They are certainly very handsome 
varieties of a most attractive group of novelties of the popular and highly-varied 
genus Pelargonium^ which has taken such a position in our gardens that a special 
Society—the Pelargonium Society—has been founded to promote its cultivation 
and exhibition.—T. Moore. 
NOTES ON TULIPS. 
WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE BEST FLOWERS IN EACH CLASS. 
[UGUST and September are the months during which the Tulip-grower is 
generally actively at work in making additions to his collection. The 
present time is therefore opportune for publishing for his guidance the fol- 
^ lowing lists of varieties in general cultivation. The sorts given are all 
pure and of good form, except when otherwise stated, and all are well worth growing. 
A very important matter should be kept in mind by the Tulip-collector, and 
that is, to buy only the best “ strains,” «.<?., the finest rectifications or breaks of 
each variety—those which have proved themselves fairly constant in their 
character. It is far more easy to get the variety in a coarse state than in a very 
refined one. The best plan is either to buy them in bloom, or to order from a 
grower of known good character who has the fine “ strains,” and who can be 
depended upon to supply the very best that he possesses. 
3rd series.—X. s 
