A writer in the English Journal of Horticulture, speaking of the sweet-scented Tulip, says: "I last week had the pleasure of inspecting at Laurel Bank, the picturesque villa residence of A. Stirling, Galashiels, an unnamed sweet-scented Tulip, the like of which I do not recollect having met before. Tulips usually are void of any pleasing odor. None that I am acquainted with merits being classed with sweet-scented flowers. This at Laurel Bank is equal in fragrance to the finest-scented rose. Mrs. Stirling, who is a great lover of flowers, and a good judge of them as well, told me she preferred it for the delicious perfume which it emitted, as a cut flower in the rooms, before any rose. It is growing in an outside border in rather a shaded position, where it was placed some years ago. In form the bloom is semi-double; in color an orange ground prettily striped with chocolate. It would be much appreciated in our conservatories and room vases, or wherever odoriferous flowers are in demand."