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Tulipa Gesneriane. From this species are descended our innumerable garden varieties. Of these it is needless to do more than offer a selection; and the most judgmatical is the following, by Mr. Slater, florist, of Cheltenham Hill, near Manchester.
The first class contains all that are worthy of a place in any stand of twelve or twenty-four varieties, and possess every requisite of a fine tulip. In the second the varieties have either fine forms, but tinged stamens, or else have rather long cups and pure bottoms and stamen. Those in the third class are such as deserve a place in any collection, but are not calculated for a southern stage.
Aglaia; Amelia; Bacchus, alius Atlas, and Rose Baccu; Carnuso de Craix; Catalina, alias Ponceau tres Blanc, and Cerise Blanche; Cerise a belle forme; Galatea (Slater's); Tri-omphe Royale, alias Heroine, La Belle Nannette, and La Cherie; Madame Ves-tris, alias Clarke's Clio, and Goldham's Princess Sophia of Gloucester; Ponceau tres blanc (Dutch); Queen of Hearts (Franklin's); Rose Brillant.
Anacreon (Slater's); Bijou des Amateurs; Byzantium (Laurence's); Camarine; Eveque d'Amboise; Holmes' King; Invincible (Franklin's); Mentor, alias Reine de Sheba; Musa-dora; Pandora; Roi de Siam, alias Aca-pulco; Salvator Rosa; Violet Cook; Violet Sovereign; Violet Quarto, alias Violet Alexander; Violet Brun; Zenobia (Slater's).
Catafalque (Old Dutch); Charbonnier; Curion (Slater's); Duke of Hamilton (Slater's); Fabius (Laurence's); Glencoe; Iago (Laurence's); Marcellus; Napoleon (Walker's); Polyphemus, alias Goldham's Albion, Ulysses, and Nourri Effendi.
Brulante Eclatante; Catharine; Cerise Royal, alias Manteau Ducal, Ponceau Brilliant, and Moore's Rose; Elizabeth Jeffries; Lady Crewe; Lady Middleton; Lac; Manon; Mason's Matilda, alias Strong's French Rose; Pre-tiosa, alias Thunderbolt; Queen Boadi-cea; Rose Camuse.
Ambassador, alias Atlas and Rose Baccu; Bailleu van Menvede; Bienfait Incomparable; Beauty (Buckley's); Buckley's No. 46; Cleopatra; Comte de Provence; David, alias David Pourpre; Davy's Queen Charlotte; Due de Bourdeaux; General Barneveld; Im-peratrix Florum; Incomparable Daphne; Incomparable, (Rowbottom's, alias Haigh's;) Lancashire Hero (Buckley's); Lord Denbigh; Lord of the Isle (Slater's); Lewold; Louis XVI.; Ne plus Ultra; Prince Elie; Queen Victoria (Wilmer's); Rubens; Sir E. Knatchbull; Thalia (Clarke's); Violet Sovereign.
Charles X., alias Waterloo, Bartlett's Platoff, La Conquerante, Gabel's Glory, Royal Sovereign, and Duke of Lancaster; Catafalque Surpasse; Carter's Leopold; Donzelli, alias Wells' Lord Brougham; Leonatus Posthumus; Lord Milton; Lord Lilford; Leonardo da Vinci; Optimus (Hutton's), alias Surpasse Optimus; Richard Cobden; Sanzio, alias Abercrombie, Captain White; Strong's Admiral White, and Strong's Admiral Black; Shakspeare, alias Gar-rick and Edmund Kean; Strong's King.
Admiral Kingsbergen; Alexandre le Roi; Camillus; Claudiana; Comte de Vergennes; Duchess of Clarence; Emily; Fleur de Dame; Grand Roi de France; Incomparable Hebe, alias Iphigenia and Rose Hebe; Lady Wilmot; La Vandyke; Lavinia (Clarke's); Lilas en Cerise; Maria (Goldham's); Mary Ann (Lawrence's); Rose Monty, Rose Bianca, Rose Quarto, Rose Primo bien du Noir, and Rose Unique; Sarah (Lawrence's); Strong's Daphne, very like if not the same as La Vandyke; Thalestris; Vesta; Walworth, alias Glory of Walworth, and Glaphyra.
Alexander Magnus, alias Alcon and Grand Marvel; Angelina; Bagnel, called also Black Bagnel; Baluruc; Black Tabbart; Catharina; Chef d'oeuvre; Competitor; Czarine; Ely's Queen Victoria; Fair Flora (Buckley's); Glory (Buckley's); Gro-tius; Imperatrice de Maroc, alias Lady of the Lake, and Valerius Publicola; Imperatrice des Romaines, alias Du-chesse de Modena; Incomparable Premier Noble, alias Grand Czidt; La belle Narene; La Mere Bruin Incomparable; Laurence's Friend; Nectar; Passe Reine d'Egypt; Patty (Lawrence's); Queen of Beauties; Queen Charlotte; Reid's Sir John Moore; Reine d'Hon-grie; Reine des Tulips; Roscius; Su-perbeen Noir, alias Lysander Noir; Transparent Noir; Washington, alias Rodney; Violet a belle forme, Violet Imperial, Violet Pompeuse, Violet Rou-geatre, Violet Triumphant, and Violet Wallers.
 
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