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HERBP’S the inside
scoop on what’s in
development in the
Dutch tulip world.

Netherlands Flowerbulb
Information Centre is serving
up Tulipa Ice Cream as one of
its newest and most exciting
hybrids.

Initially crossed in 1980
from parents Casa Blanca and
West Frisia, both double-
flowering varieties, Ice Cream
looks just like what its name
implies — a generous scoop of
vanilla ice cream atop a straw-
berry and kiwi-coloured ice-
cream cone.

Dutch tulip hybridizers
have long been trying to
achieve a double, or peonie-
flowering tulip that is good
for the forcing and cut flower
industry.

After years of tials, they
have developed a number of
tulip varieties which fit this
bill.

In the process, Ice Cream
came along with the added
attribute that it is also a won-
derful garden flower because
of its lengthy flowering peri-
od

Before gardeners get too
excited and rush out to their
local nursery, they should be
aware that Tulipa Ice Cream,
with its own brand new classi-
fication or group called

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THE Dutch hybrid Tutipa ice Cream has its own new .
classification: Cabbage Tulip.

Cabbage Tulip, will not even
be available for another five to
seven years = not in Canada,
not in Holland, not anywhere.

Even in this age of scientif-
ic advances, it still takes 15 to
25 years, and sometimes

more, from the moment a -
hybridizer touches the pollen
from one variety to the sta-
men of another, to the time
when there are enough bulbs
of the new flower to bring to.
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