Tulips — The Crown of the May Garden 
Our listings of Tulips this season, though limited to the older varieties, are kinds that have proven themselves to 
be the best, after years of culture in the garden as well as indoors in the glass house. They have been selected from 
the finest American and English sources. The bulbs are large and firm and we believe our selections are the best 
obtainable. 
Basic colors are available in each group which makes it possible to make one’s own personal color scheme, or, if 
you prefer, we have made a choice arrangement in ten colors, each one in harmony. You will find this offer on 
page 27. 
Supply is very limited this season and we, therefore, urge you to let us have your order at an early date so that 
proper reservations may be made. 
Breeder Tulips 
Most garden Tulips begin life as self-colored flowers. After a time the coloring matter gets broken up into 
stripes and blotches. Before this change takes place, they are known as “Breeder” or “Mother” Tulips. 
They flower approximately at the same time as the Cottage and Darwin Tulips, during the month of May, ex- 
cepting in southern sections where they bloom in April. 
These aristrocrats of the Tulip family, with their immense blooms, borne on strong, stiff stems, frequently ex- 
ceeding a height of forty inches, have become, of recent years, the most sought-after of all the Tulips. 
The Rembrandtesque tone in their deep coloring and the artistic blending of shades, as well as the great possi- 
bilities offered in combinations of color, have made them especially valuable to the critical garden enthusiast. 
The following list contains all of the most beautiful, most fascinating sorts—plant the rarest in small groupings, 
the better known sorts in extensive plantings. 
/ BRONZE QUEEN. This flower carries one of those subtle © MADAME LETHIERRY. An indescribably lovely Tulip 
blendings of deep yellow and brown with a touch of that will please all who care for lovely form and tender 
rose in it which only belongs to the great hybrids of — blendings of color. It has two shades of old rose; one 
today in Tulips. It has a shadowy beauty of its own, is a very rich deep color, the other paler and suffused with 
very tall, has a flower not specially large but very dis- amber. While not so large a flower as some others in 
tinct, and could be used most effectively in drifts with the family, this is a Tulip of great richness of color and 
the familiar and glorious Louis XIV. Height 28 inches. of good form in the border. Darwin Tulip, The Bishop, 
$1.45 for 10; $12.00 per 100. should be its companion. It has the added charm of deli- 
cate fragrance. Height 26 inches. $1.45 for 10; $12.00 
DILLENBURG. A very beautiful Tulip of a glorious P® 100. 
salmon-orange. Flower is large, of elegant loose shape, | PANORAMA (Fairy). This Tulip is remarkable for its 
borne on a tall stem. This is the best variety in this elena al loro : : 
: plendid orange-scarlet color, its overlying bluish bloom, 
color group. $1.25 for 10; $10.00 per 100. See illus- its amazing olive-green base, yellow pistil and dull violet 
tration, page 21. anthers. Whether open or partly closed, the flower is 
beautiful and with the latest possible Daffodils, the 
Y LOUIS XIV. The vigorous plant has a large, goblet- _ effect in mass planting would be very fine. Height 27 
shaped flower. which possesses a most artistic blending —_ inches. $1.25 for 10; $10.00 per 100. 
of tones of indescribable beauty, deliciously scented. , 
Dark bluish violet with tawny mar- L-PRINCE OF ORANGE (Orange Beauty). The dominant 
Big hi Wen Sd ee eT characteristic of this Breeder is a superb deep warm 
Sin 8 orange color, appearing mainly at the edges of the 
blue base with a yellow oe shad- petals, which are then overlaid with a tawny reddish 
ed bronze. A HS planting of this hue. A fine flower to use in connection with some of the 
unique Tulip gives a comforting very dark Japanese Maples. Height 27 inches. $1.25 for 
feeling of repose. Picture a large 10; $10.00 per 100. 
pares LCL TANTALUS. Probably the most stately and beautiful of 
giants abovemasses Terie aban. Ahern ee GEE i dj xhibj 
Ee Tes giant breeder lulips. /\n outstanding exhibi- 
2 8 : tion Tulip. The very large cup-shaped flowers are of a 
or yellow pansies. light cadmium-yellow overlaid with dull slate-violet. 
Height 34 inches. Base is dark yellow with black anthers. A most beau- 
yes em OTe LO: tiful color picture can be created by planting them in 
$11.00 per 100. drifts along the blue “Blue Eagle” and rising from a 
See illustration, foreground planting of Scilla campanulata. Height 32 
page 24. inches. $2.25 for 10; $20.00 per 100. 










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