Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1922-09-06
Giant Late Tulips Offer
Most Gorgeous Displays

! Most Gorgeous Displays
The late tulips offer the most gor-
geous display ofthe entire year in the
hardy garden. In color, form and GER
tainty to bloom there is no garden
subject to compare with them. Coming
into bloom about the second week of
May in normal seasons, they offer
display of color from the most bril-
liant to the most delicate and subtle,
and not offered by any other garden
material.
In addition, they have long stems
and are ideal for cutting. Some of
the Darwins will reach a height of
three feet under good cultivation,
while two feet is about fair average.
While the single early tulips need
sunshinny position, the late tulips are
even better and last longer if given
partial shade. In long lines from six
to ten deep, or in bold masses or in
groups Of half dozen or more, in
terspersed among shrubbery and in
the hardy borders, they are invalu-
able.
The Darwin tulips range in color
through wonderful array of pinks
and roses and scarlets, crimsons and
maroons to almost black, with a
similar range in lilacs, violets, puppies
and mauves to almost black. There
are no yellows in Darwins. The OAR
win is peculiar in that many of the
flowers have an overcast or bloom
something similar. to bloom on the
grape, which gives them soft char
acter often likened to the pastel
colors. Nearly all of them are beau
tifully shaded in coloring, the edges
OF the petals being lighter than the
center. Many of them have striking
blue bases.
The cottage tulips furnish the yell
lows and oranges, which are not found
among the Darwins, and the breeders
also have shades of yellow and orange
in bewildering combinations. The
breeders also include that rarest of
colors in flowers, brown, and the
brown tulips offer some of the prizes
for tulip growers, the shading from
buff to rich mahogany, coffee and
brown colorings being singularly rich
and beautiful.
To those interested in working out
effective color combinations, the late
tulips are the finest materials in the
whole world of gardening, for almost
every conceivable shade, except pure
blue, and all manner of combinations
Of color may be secured by consulting
the lists of the dealers.
The Darwins are of such soft colors
that mixed paintings are popular. as
there is no chance of an inharmonious
combination, while the combinations
OF lavenders, lilacs, mauves with the
various shades of pink and rose, offer
fascinating possibilities. The more
brilliant scarlets and crimsons, u.s.
ually having rose standings or softer
combinations, furnish the most bril-
liant display when in bloom that can
be imagined.
The culture ofthe late tulips is
simple. Given well-drained situa-
ton, in raised beds, if possible, to in
sure drainage, they should be planted
six inches deep and from six to eight
inches apart, the latter giving them
better room to develop, while the
closer distance gives better mass of
bloom. If they are to remain undis-
turbed for more than season, it is
advisable to give them the greater
distance.
They are best dug every year and
replanted. No manure should be used
IN the soil other than bone meal, which
should be dug into the soil when tho