PARROT TULIP, FANTASY 
SINGLE EARLY TULIPS 
PARROT TULIPS 
FANTASY 
Clara Butt went jitterbugging and produced this 
fantastic flower. It is a great big, loosely formed, 
feathery bloom in a bewildering medley of flesh-pink, 
shell-pink, scarlet and white, marbled and mottled 
with green on the outside. No wonder it was called 
a Parrot Tulip. 
The stems are of good length for cutting, and being 
rather willowy, their decorative value when arranged 
in a large bowl is unequaled. 
$1.10 per doz.; $8.00 per 100 
These are the freaks of the Tulip family. The 
very large buds usually twist and turn in a way 
to suggest the head and beak of a parrot. They 
open to broad, irregular, and fantastic flowers 
with slashed, fringed, laciniated, 
puckered, ruffled, and otherwise 
distorted blooms. Don’t be dis¬ 
couraged with their early appear¬ 
ance. They are strikingly different 
from other Tulips in growth. 
They are attractive and we recom¬ 
mend that, by all means, you 
grow a few “Parrots.” 
JVIcirhgracif . Shades of yellow, scarlet, 
purple and green. A most spectacular display 
of color. $1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100 
At the time when Early Tulips bloom, there 
are scarcely any brilliant garden flowers open 
except Narcissus and Hyacinths and, in spite of 
all the beauty of Narcissus, they lack contrast in 
large plantings because of their limited color- 
range. The Single Early Tulips supply the bril¬ 
liance which is lacking at that season. A second 
very desirable quality about the Early Tulips 
is that the bloom is over and the plants matured 
in time to permit replanting the beds with sum¬ 
mer annuals which will come into bloom early 
in the season. 
Duchesse de Parme, lO in. Brilliant scar¬ 
let with a narrow yellow edge. 
$1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100 
Prosperity Maxima. 12 in. A fine early 
forcing Tulip of a dainty rose-pink color. An improved 
form of the old variety. Prosperity. 
$1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100 
White Hawk. 10 in. Very large; globe-shaped 
in the bud; pure white. $1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100 
Keizerskroon. One of the oldest but still popu¬ 
lar Tulips. It grows about 14 inches tall is of a 
blazing crimson-scarlet color, with a broad, rich, golden 
yellow edge. No other variety gives such brilliant and 
dazzling effect. $1.45 per doz.; $11.00 per 100 
SINGLE EARLY TULIP, KEIZERSKROON 
Despite its name this old Tulip has never been un¬ 
friendly to New England. In many places it has made 
itself at home and has survived years of our rigorous 
climate. The most permanent of all Tulips. 
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