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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGI8T. 
and they can then be arranged in the conservatory, or wherever it is intended 
they shall flower. 
I was requested to name twelve varieties of early Tulips, three of them to 
be double varieties. The double flowers should be the common Tournesol, 
yellow Tournesol, and the bright crimson Imperator Rubrorum. Duke of 
York, violet, edged with white, can be substituted for the yellow Tournesol, 
should the price appear to be too high. The first named is the best and most 
showy of all the double flowers ; but it is very scarce and dear this season. Of 
single flowers two yellow varieties should be used, Golden Prince and the striped 
Pottebakker, or, better still, the gorgeous Marquis de Wessenrode, shoidd the 
price admit of its being employed. Then White Pottebakker, pure white; 
Queen Victoria, rose; Vermilion Brilliant, brilliant scarlet; Feu Rouge, scarlet, 
flamed with orange; Royal Standard, white and red striped; Keizers Kroon, 
red, edged with golden yellow; and Globe de Rigaud, pale violet, faintly 
streaked with white. Excepting the last two and Vermilion Brilliant, which is 
also very scarce and dear this season, these single varieties are very reasonable 
indeed in regard to price. Should better, or rather more expensive flowers be 
wished for, though it can hardly be supposed, even from the instructions I re¬ 
ceived, any bulb list can be searched for them; what I have given are well 
“worthy of cultivation.” The soil and treatment should be the same as for 
the Hyacinths, their bulbs should be placed in a pot, and they should be quite 
covered by the soil. Let me entreat my fair correspondent not to attempt to 
grow any of these Tulips in sand, or moss, or water within doors ; but to bloom 
all of the varieties she intends to cultivate in-doors, removing them there, or 
at least to a warm sitting-room, just as the buds show themselves. 
I trust that what I have here written will meet the requirements of my 
correspondent; if it does not, I shall take pleasure in assisting her to the 
utmost of my power in a subsequent number of the Florist and Pomologist. 
It may be that it will come as a “ word in season ” to others who are equally 
desious of receiving some such hints for their future guidance. If these re¬ 
marks should tend in however small a degree to minister to the high enjoyment 
which the successful cultivation of “these stars of earth—the golden flowers” 
invariably imparts, the writer will feel that he has “ not laboured in vain.” 
Baron van Tuyll. 
ESCRICK PARK, 
The Seat of the Right Hon. Lord Wenlock. 
This beautiful place is situated six miles south of the city of York. The 
country for miles around is flat, but well wooded. At the time of our visit 
(the 11th of September), the flower gardens were very gay and brilliant, not¬ 
withstanding the very heavy rains we had a short time previously. All the best 
“ bedding ” Geraniums are here very extensively used, and to enumerate all 
would be little less than furnishing a nurseryman’s list. We shall, however, 
notice a few sorts that were very effective—and foremost amongst them were 
four large beds of Stella; these were very conspicuous objects amongst the 
blaze of colours about them. There were also four beds of Christine, very fine, 
but this variety has been very fine with ourselves this season, and in every 
garden we have seen. Helen Lindsay is not worth growing. There were 
several beds of Francis Dubois very fine; Madame Vaucher was good, but 
beginning to run too much into wood, as were, also most of the scarlets. 
Monsieur Martin and Roi d’ltalie are both very effective in beds. Some 
beds of Verbena Venus, with Bijou Geranium mixed, were very good. Varie- 
