EARLY TULIPS. 
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Iris subijtora ; violet, scarcely a foot. 
Liatris heterophylla; purple; about the same height. 
(Enothera macrocarpa ; yellow, large flowers, trailing habit. 
Oxalis Bowei; deep rose, about six inches in height. 
Potentilla llopwoodiana ; orange and crimson, one foot high. 
A Subscriber. 
Roehampton . 
EARLY TULIPS. 
Under this name a very interesting group of the showy family 
of tulips is generally known in gardens, springing I suppose 
originally from the Tulipa prcecox. Though they do not possess 
the regularity in form and marking of the late tulips, and have 
consequently but little or no interest for the florist, there are few 
flowers more useful to the general gardener than are these. 
Their gaily-coloured blossoms are developed almost before the 
retirement of the nipping winter’s cold, the first vernal breath 
seeming sufficient to warm them into life and beauty, and ere 
April’s smiling, weeping course is half run, a galaxy of rich and 
varied hues is presented by the bed of early tulips. Why they 
are not of more frequent occurrence I am at a loss to conceive; 
their management is simple, they are vigorous and hardy in habit, 
possessing a constitution far more robust than the late flowering 
kinds, and therefore, when once procured, are easily kept, and 
for a display of pleasing colours, which is the flower-gardener’s 
chief aim, are very far in advance of any other bulbous-rooted 
plant known to us that blossoms at the early season natural to 
these, when even the simplest of floral forms, the lowly snowdrop, 
is prized. Perhaps, like many a worthy member of society, they 
require but to be known to receive the cordial welcome their merit 
entitles them to ; but while this introduction is pending, society 
suffers in both cases, and therefore when the opportunity offers, 
let us do our best to remove the incubus; and now that the 
planting season is at hand, I beg to introduce to the notice of 
such of your readers as may not have hitherto enjoyed the beauty 
of a bed of these flowers : the following very handsome kinds, 
which possess the very enviable qualification of pleasing wherever 
