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NOTES ON TULIPS. 
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Byblcemens. 
David Jackson (Jackson), a noble fonrth- 
row flower; lias bloomed finely in both 
feathered and flamed states. 
Friar Tuck (Slater), fine both as a 
feathered and as a flamed flower; won the 
premier prize for the best feathered flower 
in the room, at the National Exhibition four 
years ago. 
John Peacock (Slater), a very fine flamed 
flower. 
Martin’s 101, feathered; a very useful 
flower; base rather narrow, and colour rosy- 
byblcemen, but so pure and so correct in its 
feathered marking, that it is a great favourite. 
The following are also flowers of the vei 
Feathered — Nulli Secundi and May 
Queen (Hepworth), Jemima Forman (For¬ 
man), William Tell (Deadly), Sarah 
Allen, Norah Darling (Lea). 
Mrs. Cooper ; a very fine feathered pan¬ 
flower—when in good character not sur¬ 
passed by anything; this is the variety 
shown by the writer as Rutley’s Queen for 
many years; it is a seedling, raised by the 
late James Boardman, of Blackley, and was 
sold by him as Boardman’s No. 1. 
Nimbus (Hardy) grand feathered and 
flamed; evidently from the same pod ©f 
seed as Talisman, and quite equal to that 
fine variety. 
William Bentley (Groom), a beautiful 
feathered flower. 
f highest promise:— 
Feathered and Fla7ned —Mrs. Sharpe, 
Agnes, Mrs. Rothwell. 
Flained — Attraction (Walker), Daunt¬ 
less, and Charlemagne (Hepworth). 
Roses. 
Lady Grosvenor (Slater), feathered and 
flamed, very good; this variety is also one 
of our finest rose-breeders. 
Lady Wilton (Martin), a fine feathered 
rose, in the style of Heroine, but shorter in 
the cup and quite distinct. 
Mrs. Barlow (Hepworth), very fine flamed 
rose, and in the breeder state quite indis¬ 
pensable. 
Nancy Gibson (Hepworth), a lovely 
feathered flower of very high quality. 
Staplepord Visit (Deadly), feathered; 
the pencilling of the feather of the most 
refined character, and the colour a light 
brilliant scarlet, brighter than that of Kate 
Connor. 
Whittaker’s Seedling (Whittaker), one of 
the finest feathered roses ever raised; won 
the premier prize for the best feathered 
flower in the room, at the National Show a 
few years ago. 
The following varieties show the highest promise :— 
Feathered: John Waterston and Little Annie. Flamed: Miss Lizzie. 
Breeders. 
Bizarres: Sir Joseph Paxton, Hardy’s 
Excelsior, Deadly’s Horatio ; Storer’s Dr. 
Hardy', Orion, No. 12, and William Lea; 
Walker’s Lord Warden, Groom’s Ariosto, 
and Lea’s Richard Yates. 
Byhlce^nens : Ashmole’s Glory of Stake- 
hill and No. 112; Walker’s Alice Grey, 
Hardy’s Talisman, and Jackson’s David 
Jackson. 
Boses : Hepworth’s Lady May and Mrs. 
Barlow ; Martin’s Annie Macgregor, 
Slater’s Lady Grosvenor, and Queen of 
England. 
There are also, as the records of our exhibitions show, a large number of seed¬ 
lings coming to the fore. These mostly are shown in the breeder classes, and on 
reference to the reports of the National Exhibition for the last few years, it will 
be found that in these classes seedlings Yvere frequently winners. Indeed the 
increased attention paid to the raising of seedlings is one of the most hopeful 
signs of vitality in the Tulip-growing fraternity.— Samuel Barlow, Stalcehill 
House^ Chadderton^ near Manchester. 
- page 191, we recorded some singular facts regarding the tardy 
increase of Tulips. Another circumstance relating to these gay flowers has been 
related by Mr. Parker, of Tooting, which is also remarkable, namely, that a 
variety raised more than twenty years ago, called Qoldham's Mary, always produces an 
offset in the axil of the first leaf, and reproduces itself in no other manner. 
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