Tulips

(Tulipa L . ) Perennial bulbous plants lily family . Garden varieties of tulips have a complex hybrid origin, and are collectively called hybrid tulip garden . The stems have tulips erect, leafy, leaves sessile . Flowers solitary, simple or double, bright colors . perianth campanulate, withfree shares . Fruit - it open box with many flat seeds . Tulips grow well in light, humus-rich soils (sandy and loamy) from a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction of the soil solution . Like sunny, wind-protected location with plenty of moisture, but without herstagnation . Modern assortment of tulips, with about 6 thousand . Varieties are divided into 23 classes, which are summarized in four groups (classification of 1960 . ) . The three groups are marked by time of flowering plants (early, middle and late) to the fourth group includes species, varieties and hybrids which are in culture . The most important areDarwinian tulips, Darwin's simple hybrid and earlier . Darwinian tulips are characterized by high growth, strict goblet shape of a flower with a rectangular outline of the lower part, the bright color of the perianth. Most common in Ukraine varieties: Aristocrat (65), Deme ter (66), Queen of the Night (67), Vilna Pitt, Copeland and Roseetc. Darwinian hybrid tulips received Dutch breeder D . B . Lefeber from crossing Darwin tulips with Central Asian wild tulip Foster . B grades in this group combined the best qualities of cultural tulips: early flowering, large flower size, freshness and brightness of its color , the power plant,high intensity of reproduction . Most common in Ukraine varieties: Goldands Glory (68), Dovre, London (69), Lefeber Favorit, Oxford (70) Parade (71) Artist (72), etc. .