. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ; such. Accord- are to be found ently developed yellow and red TULIPA to be monstrosities, and were pictured ing to Solms-Lau'baeh, no traces of the in the old Dutch books. They were ev by the French, who did not disdain tl forms, to which these belong, to such an exte
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ; such. Accord- are to be found ently developed yellow and red TULIPA to be monstrosities, and were pictured ing to Solms-Lau'baeh, no traces of the in the old Dutch books. They were ev by the French, who did not disdain tl forms, to which these belong, to such an extent as did the Hollanders. At one time they were made a separate species, T. Turcica, and later said to be hybrids, V)y one author, between T. acuminata and isijti'cstris (E. S. Rand, Jr., 1873), by another between T. Gesneriana and stiaveolens (Mrs. Loudon. 18«). That the Parrot Tulips are hybrids is perhaps true, but to state with certainty the parents seems impossible, for as early as 1G13, among the figures in Hortus Eystettensis, there is one which shows laciniation of the petals to a marked degree; sufficiently so, in fact, to be the original form from which this strain could bedeveloped. Besides, many of our garden varieties of to-day exhibit more or less laciniation, so that it is probable that "Parrot" strains might be developed from them by simple selec- tion. Double Tulips seem to have made their appearance at an early date. In Hortus Eystettensis (1613), there are four forms figured, one of which, at least, seems to have been almost wholly made up of bracts, as it is shown entirely green and is described as being "wholly herbaceous and ; The other three there figured are: one red, one yellow, and the other white with maroon borders. Solms- Laubach places the advent of double Tulips at a much later date. 16«5, and gives as the first authentic record the account of " Tnlipa lutea tioned. A double form of "7". «fro/(H«"
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