. 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. A Parrot Tulip — Tulipa Gesneriana, var. Dracontia (X^e). nulate, 3 in. long, dark scarlet, tinged with green just above and blending into a bright jellow ba- sal lildtch; segments acute, cuspidate; stamens yellow: ovary prismatic: stig- mas white, not undulated. Habit
. 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. A Parrot Tulip — Tulipa Gesneriana, var. Dracontia (X^e). nulate, 3 in. long, dark scarlet, tinged with green just above and blending into a bright jellow ba- sal lildtch; segments acute, cuspidate; stamens yellow: ovary prismatic: stig- mas white, not undulated. Habitat un- known. Vars. rtibra and violicea, Hort., are ofl^ered. 9. vitellina, Hort. Lvs. 4, not crowded, as long as , not undulated, thinly ciliate on edge: peduncle slightly tinged with red near fl.: perianth campanulate, 2 in. long, sulfur-yellow, no basal blotch; inner segments rounded, outer acute; filaments yellowish white; stigmas not ~^—'— undulated. — Said to be "hybrids he- aled style of tween T. suaveolens and T. Gesneriana.^' ;i^). It is one of the "Cottage Garden " Tulips, a class of old-fashioned Tulips which have been preserved from oblivion in the gardens of the poor. Attempts have been made recently to restore them to popular favor. Well worth attention. 10. sylvestris, Linn. Fig. 2601. Height 9-15 in.: lvs. usually 3, at base of scape, channeled, linear-lorate: peduncle sometimes 2-fld. in cultivation: bud nodding; }y,-2 in. long, yel- ower: ovary bladder- ; smaller than ovary- ive in England and on as T. Florentina perianth funuelfnrm-canij' low; segments all n', in form (narrowed ,it , ,.ii ., , diameter, yelluw ~ i widelv .so in Em. , and f. Florentine, \.ir, .-., 11. Ostrowskiina, Kegel. Height 12 in.: lvs. 3, flat, ciliate on edge : perianth open-campanulate, 2-3 in. across, non-odorous, scarlet with small brown basal spot, margined with yellow at top; segments tapering at base and top; filaments dark wine-red: ovary pri
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