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On the Cultivation of the Tidip. 
Plants treated in this manner, always a])])ear healthy and vigorous, 
and the blossoms are much liner than are produced upon old }>lants, 
that have been cut down and treated in the usual manner. 
All my spare old plants are finally turned out into th(‘ o))en borders, 
and dower admirably; and from being so very dwarf and bushv, th(*y 
are verv suitable for the pur])ose. 
I am, Gentlemen, Ac, 
Jnly 6th, 1831. George Harrison, 
AiiTiCLE V.— On the C alt i vat ion of the Talip. J5y Mil, 
John Revell, of Pitsmoor, near Sheffield. 
Gentlemen, 
As my article on the culture of the Auricula, seems to have 
met with your approbation, and found a place in the pages of your Mag¬ 
azine, 1 again lay before yon a few remarks on the Culture of the Tulip, 
which, if you think worth insertion, are entirely at your service. 
1 may perhaps be excused if I digress a little from the subject in 
question, and commence the present paper with a short account of the 
cultivation of that flower, from the time of its introduction into this 
country. It is considered to be a native of the Levant, and is very 
common in Syria and Persia, and according to Gesner, was brought to 
Europe in 1559, and was cultivated in England by James Garnett, as 
early as 1577. Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, it became 
an object of particular interest in the Netherlands—^nay, to such a height 
had the passion for fine Tulips arrived in 1637, that at a public auction, 
which took place at Alkrnaar, in Holland, 120 Tulip-roots were sold for 
no less a sum than £7875, and one sort alone, called the Viceroy, cost 
the purchaser £190. The taste for Tulips in England appears to have 
arrived at its climax about the end of the seventeenth and beginning of 
the eighteenth centuries, after which time the study of Botany began to 
gain ground, and in a few years had obtained the complete ascendancy. 
The Tulip, however, still continued to be cultivated to a great extent, both 
/ in Holland and England, by the amateur florists, and to this day, like the 
Auricula and some other flow'ers, it is held by them in great estimation, 
so much so, that a notecf modern writer on these subjects, remarks, that 
a moderate collection of choice bulbs cannot be purchased for a sum 
much less than £ 1000 at the usual prices 
Tulips are divided by florists into three Classes, viz; 1st. Ihfhloeniens, 
such as have a white ground, varieg-ated with purple, the edges well fea¬ 
thered, the leaflets of the perianthemum erect, and the whole forming a 
well shaped cup;—as Bienfait, Washington, Incomparable, Baguet, &c. 
2nd. /b 2 ar 7 ’c.y, having a yellow ground, variegated with scarlet, purple. 
