September 26, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Thus, seed taken from a Rose Tulip which has been 
carefully crossed with another Rose Tulip will give a 
majority of Rose breeders, but there will probably be 
some twenty per cent, of Bybloemen breeders among 
Seedlings from feathered or flamed flowers will pro¬ 
duce both feathered and flamed flowers. It is not 
uncommon for bulbs to flower one year flamed and 
another year feathered—the same bulbs. Sometimes 
white and yellow, the white represents the ground 
colour of the Rose and Bybloemen types, the yellow 
self represents the ground colour of the Bizarre type. 
But self colours are very seldom raised, yet they are 
Flamed Tulip, unknown. 
Flamed Tulip, Nimbus. 
them, and a few Bizarres. The parents, when two 
Roses are crossed, should both be bright in colour, or 
a larger proportion ot Bybloemens will follow. It is the 
same with Bybloemens, parents should be as near black 
as possible, or of a bluish purple colour. Parents of a 
reddish purple colour will throw reddish purple breeders, 
which seldom break into good and distinct flowers, 
whether Roses or Bybloemens. In answer to a question 
Mr. Barlow said he had never crossed a Bizarre either 
with a Rose or a Bybloemen, but from chance seed he 
it happens that a fine strain of a variety that had 
bloomed, say in a feathered state for years, will, with¬ 
out any note of warning, bloom flamed. Mr. Barlow 
relates how Martin’s 101 bloomed for eight or ten years 
in succession perfectly feathered ; then came a year 
when every bloom was finely flamed. The following 
year, or within two or three years, nearly all the 
flowers had lost their beam, and it would never be a 
matter of surprise if the following year they went back 
to a feathered character. George Hayward, another 
raised occasionally. Mr. Willison of Whitby, a noted 
raiser and cultivator of Tulips, produced several 
varieties notably White Perfection, and a very good 
yellow also, the name of which cannot be remembered. 
In the old Tulip shows prizes were offered for the best 
self white, and the best self yellow, but such is not the 
case now. 
David Jackson, of Middleton, some ten years or 
so ago, raised some seedling seifs, and some very 
good ones too from Aglaia, flamed rose, the female 
Heavy Feathered Tulip, Rachel. 
Light Feathered Tulip, Little Annie. 
had seen some curious flowers of a nondescript charac¬ 
ter, the effect of such chance crossing. But the grower 
of a good collection need never attempt such crosses, as 
he has to wait from five to eight years to get blooming 
bulbs from seed ; and the results would not repay the 
labour, time, and patience necessary to get them. 
Bizarre, will sometimes act in the same manner. The 
flamed flowers which turn to feathered blooms are not 
so numerous as those which changed from the feathered 
to the flamed character. 
“Self Tulips.” —There is a group of Florists’ Tulips 
termed “Selfs.” They are divided into two classes, 
parent well crossed, and he had more than a dozen 
seedling self yellows in the progeny. The white 
ground of Aglaia is very yellow at opening and 
needs a week’s bleaching to get it pure. There is 
evidently in it a taint of Bizarre parentage or ancestry. 
— R. D. 
