"Then he will give her anew name,
the‘Jersey red with the dimpled horn,’
perhaps, and time will bring its revenge,
but that does not make this October prai
rie grass taste any better."’
The Florist's Tulip.
Vtck’s Magazine.
The tulip is perhaps one of the most
precious of flowers in the estimation of
the florist, because of the extraordinary
transformations through which it passes,
as well as on account of its possession of
other qualities of a not less fascinating
character. singular peculiarity of
the tulip is the extraordinary change which
takes place when the seedling breeder
"breaks,” or, in other words, assumes its
proper and permanent character. That a
flower, which, on its first blooming from
the seed, an'd probably for a series of
years afterward, should (to take the case
of a fine bybluetnen) present but one dull
slate color with a circle of white at the
base; that this flower, so unattractive in
its appearance, should all at once, without
any apparent cause, completely alter its
nature; that the dull slate color should
disappear entirely, giving place to a
delicate feathering, of rich purple or vio
let, while the pure white which was
confined to a narrow circle at the
base, should spread all over and be
come the ground color of the petal: and
that the latter and true character should
be maintained during the whole of the
after-existence of the plant, is surely so
remarkable a fact in vegetable physiology
as to deserve at the hands of the scientific
and practical botanist the closest investi
gation.
Many persons, though well acquainted
with flower, are unaware of the changes
torugh which th* seedling hlulip passes.
