THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
691 
September 
13, 1913. 
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DARWIN TULIPS ON THE TERRACE AT COOMBE COURT. 
The beautiful Pride of Haarlem in the foreg-round. 
single and double Dutch tulips are 
pre-eminently adapted for pot culture, and 
to supply cut flowers and material for in¬ 
door decoration during early spring, the 
Darwin tulip is the kind par excellence for 
outdoor decoration; its flowering season 
marks, as it were, the dawn of summer. 
^^llen the harsh winds and uncertain 
weather that usually characterise our win¬ 
ters and springs become abated, it is then 
that the Darwin tidip brings its wealth of 
oolour, with the promise of the year full 
Rpon us. 
There is scarcely another spring-flowering 
hu b to rival it in parterre planting, for 
it is there that the stately, noble, and digni- 
irhI character of the ])lants gain fullest 
expression. It is also vigorous enough to 
eombat with the greedy roots of shrubs, 
3nd no more pleasing picture can be con¬ 
ceived than by employing Darwin tulips— 
Cither mixed or to colour—as a ground¬ 
work among the shrubs. Again, in many 
prdens it is the custom to devote certain 
orders exclusively to the display of spring 
owers, and for such an arrangement the 
nrwin tulip is indispensable, both on ac- 
ount of its height and colour ; and when 
leoinpanifd by a groundw’ork of some close- 
Mowing plant, the combinations into wliich 
cxhaustn^^^ of entering are practically in- 
^ The character of the Darwin tulips may 
to cosmopo’itan, for it appeals 
with xyhlely different tastes and 
its season it can be 
% the million, for every public 
trli pork of repute grows Darwin 
culb?- T ^'"’^y-focreasing quantity. Their 
defin*? r^uirements are simple and well 
are i ^ o ly-matured and ripened bulbs 
start w ith, and in order to 
?connT ^o^hest quality of flowers the 
calcareous loam, or limestone and chalky 
soils. Darwin tulips give excellent rt'sults, 
and they are practically immune from 
disease, this being always most noticeable 
where little or no manure was given at the 
time of planting. When these tulips are 
extensively employed in be<lding arrange- 
Clara Butt is a ixwfwt flower of a match¬ 
less shade of salmon-pink. Itose colours 
are faulth'ssly representp<l in Psyche and 
Queim Wilhelmina pvhile an attractive com¬ 
bination of rose, with the tnlges of the seg¬ 
ments f(nithere<l pale blush, is found in 
Aldmo. Krelage and Baronnede la Tonnaye, 
both varieties Ixung faultless in flower and 
habit. Salmon King is cne of the brightest 
shades of all ; the sterns are stiff and erect, 
while the jrrice plac<'s it within easy reach 
of all. Ih id? of Haarlem is alwavs a sati.^- 
factory and reliable tulip; the flowers are 
of the" largest size, rich carmine in colour, 
and the stems alrout • thirty inches in 
height, while it flowers seven davs 
in advance of Mr. Farncombe San- 
AN EFFECTIVE BED OF TULIP MADAME KRELAGE. 
One of the most beautiful of the Darwin varieties. 
merits, it is usually necessary to remove 
1 •- A order to make 
^ r lolir VrencHTef;": rem when partly ripen.d, u or<ler to make 
dt: - liberal dossing of old way for the 'ntturallv 
fr^ Planting is carried these <;‘r««natances the bidbs “a^ 
Iv n? 11*® till November, suffer, for, even if the work « ex^^ite^ 
^ Planting being advisable with these as some considerable drying up of the roots 
ders. Cueen of Roses in the only 
variety I have found unsatisfactory, and 
this because the stems do not appear able 
to carry the flowers, which bend over, and 
form a blemish in a concerted bedding 
scheme. Tuos. Smith. 
with other bulbs, for after the latter date 
they begin to lose in vigour from undue 
exposure to the air. 
When bulbs can.be allowed to mature and 
ripen naturally^ Darw in tulips wdll increase 
and give a display indefinitely. The best 
natural soil to prixiuce this result is a 
follows, and the oulbs do not attain tJie 
degree of perfection they otherw ise would. 
In this case the bulbs sliould be heeled in 
until the foliage is quite ripe, then lifted 
and sorted towards the end of duly, re¬ 
planting almost ininuHliately in the resi'rvo 
garden, when, if unmolesttHl for a season, 
good average bulbs will Ix' jircxluccKl the 
follow ing year. Even supposing those bulbs 
are not risiuired for the parU»rre again, 
they are invaluable for supplying cut 
flowers. 
Varieties of Darwin tulips are exceedingly 
numerous and the gradation of colour 
fairly witle. There arc, of course, no yel¬ 
lows such as occur among the Singl(' Dutch 
and Cottage tulips. The lightest tints are 
found in La Candour, I’ainted Lady, and 
Margaret, these being almost white or a 
faint blush only when fully expaiuhnl. The 
darkest shades, in some instances almost 
black, are represented by The Sultan, Faust, 
and La Tulipe Noire, the former being the 
dwarfest, and the last-naine<l the tallest 
grower. Light <‘hocohite or heliotrope 
shaile is represented by Dream and Rev. 
Ew'bank; w hile the glowing crim.son-scarlet 
of the pelargonium is reflo<*te<l in Mr. 
Farncombe Samlers. Minister Tak van 
Poortvliet, (ilow, Europe, Ariadne, William 
Pitt, and Isis. 
DARWIN TULIPS. 
Tulips are the most brilliant of spring- 
flowering bulbs; they are also moderate in 
Brice and their popularity is probably as 
„moh attributed to the latter fact as to the 
intrinsic merit of the flowers. t\ bile the 
