ROBERT BUIST CO., PHILADELPHIA 
RELIABLE BULBS 
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DARWIN TULIP, CLARA BUTT 
Collection of Darwin Tulips 
There are many who have not the time or inclination 
to make a selection from the list of Darwin Tulips and 
for their assistance we offer the following collections. 
They have been arranged with great care and the idea 
of giving greatest value for the amount invested. Each 
one is a distinct color and will form a beautiful group 
planted together or separately. 
City of Haarlem, dark scarlet. Inglescombe Yellow. 
Phillipe de Comines, plum-purple. Pride of Haarlem, 
carmine-rose. Princess Elizabeth, deep pink. Rev. N. 
Ewbank, lavender. 
6 of each (36 in all) .$ 1 90 
12 of each (72 in all) . 3 50 
25 of each (150 in all) . 6 50 
50 of each (300 in all) . 12 00 
Giant Darwin Tulips 
“The Tulip Aristocrats” 
We strongly recommend this class of Tulips for the Southern 
States 
These beautiful May-flowering Tulips produce immense 
flowers on tall sturdy stems and have been well called “The 
Tulip Aristocrats.” They are growing in popularity by leap 0 
and bounds, embracing almost every shade. No painter’s brush 
can adequately render all the sunrise and sunset tints marking 
this superb class. They must be seen in their own beauty to 
be appreciated. On long sturdy stems rise the gigantic flowers 
in every conceivable shade and of the most exquisite forms. 
If you want one spot of intrinsic beauty in your garden, plant 
these Tulips. 
A characteristic of the Darwin is that the color inside the 
flower is as bright and sometimes brighter than the outside. It 
is in this class we find the celebrated Black Tulip and a few 
near whites, but no yellow, and for this the May-flowering 
Tulips Inglescombe Yellow, offered on opposite page, supplies 
the absent color perfectly. For splendid effect in borders and 
planted in small groups amongst shrubs, they are unsurpassed, 
unexcelled for cutting, growing from 22 to 24 inches high. 
They are perfectly hardy and can be left for years undisturbed 
and bloom magnificently every season. Plant 5 to 6 inches 
deep, and 5 to 6 inches apart each way. 
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Afterglow. Clear dark salmon shad¬ 
ed orange, edged light orange...j 
Baronne de la Tennaye. Bright pur¬ 
plish rose, toning off to a soft pink 
Bartigon. Fiery crimson. Good forcer 
Bleu Aimable. Bright, violet-purple 
with distinct steel-blue shading. . 
Centanaire. Rich violet-rose with 
large blue centre . 
City of Haarlem. One of the largest 
and brightest red Tulips. 
Clara Butt. Delicate salmon-pink 
flower of remarkable beauty.... 
Dream. Silvery lilac-heliotrope .... 
Farncombe Sanders. Brilliant Scarlet 
tinged with rose. Very showy... 
Flamingo. Delicate shell-pink . 
Inglescombe Yellow. Rich canary- 
yellow of perfect form. Not a true 
Darwin, but similar in appearance 
Jubilee. Rich blue-purple . 
King George V. Rich cherry-red . . . 
King Harold. Dark maroon-scarlet. . 
La Fiancee. Deep rose shading to 
old-rose . 
La Tulipe Noire (The Black Tulip), 
Deep purple-maroon, almost black 
Mme. Krelage. Rose-pink . 
Mrs. Potter Palmer. Deep rich vio- 
let-purple . 
Philippe de Comines. Plum purple. . 
Pride of Haarlem. Carmine rose . . 
Princess Elizabeth. Clear, deep pink 
Prince of the Netherlands. Cerise- 
rose, flowers of immense size . . 
Professor Rauwenhof. Deep cherry- 
red with salmon glow inside.... 
Psyche. Soft rose, inside silvery rose 
Rev. H. Ewbank. Light heliotrope, 
shaded lavender . 
Suzon. Soft pink, with rose margin 
Venus. Silvery lilac-rose . 
White Queen (La Candeur). White 
slightly flushed light pink .... 
William Copeland. Lilac-rose . 
William Pitt. Deep carmine-scarlet. 
Zwanenburg. Pure white. 
Buist’s Special Mixed Darwin Tulips. 
A superb mixture made up by 
ourselves from a number of se¬ 
lected named varieties . 
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Dozen and hundred prices include postage. The 1000 rates 
are at purchaser’s expense. Not less than six bulbs supplied 
at dozen price and 25 at the 100 rate. 
