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top, where it is divided into twelve parts, v/hicK arc 

 rellexcd. After the flower is paft, the germen fwells 

 and becomes a round, comprefied, ligneous capfule, 

 having twelve deep furrows, each being a diftinft 

 cell, containing one large round comprefled feed ; 

 when the pods are ripe, they burft with an elafti- 

 city, and throw out their feeds to a confiderable dif- 



tance. 



It is propagated by feeds, which Ihould be fown early 

 in the fpnng, in pots filled with light rich earth, 

 and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark. If the 

 feeds are frefh, the plants will appear in about five 

 ov fix weeks after the feeds are fown. As the plants 

 ■will advance very fafl:, where due care is taken of 

 " them, fo they Ihould have a large fhare of frefh air 



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2. 



nia, which includes thofe plants v.-hofe llower^ ii?vc 

 fix llamina and but one ilyle. 

 The Species are, 



Hyacinthus (NoifirIj)las] coroWh campanulatis !"'x- 

 partitis apice revolutis. Hurt. ClifV. 12^. lf\^ri,\''h 

 ivith a hclUpapcd petal divided into fiy: parLu -ivlir/j c.n 

 reflexcd at their tops, Hyacinthns oblongo (lore cxru- 

 leus major. C. B. P. 43. Greater Hyacl-uh zvtil an ob- 

 long blue flo'iver \ and the Hyiicintlius Annlicus. Gcr 

 ^g. Englifi) llyaemth^ or Hare Be! Is. 



Hyacinthus {Serotinus) corollarum cxtcriorihus pc- 

 talis fubdiftinftis, interioribus coadunatis. L.in. Sp 



Plant. 453. Hyacinth ^^vhofe exterior part of the &-^C 

 has dijiin£l petals^ hut the interior joined. 



flctvcr 



Hyacinthus 

 obfoleto flore. C. B. P. 44. Hyacinth with a vjorn-cvt 



flower. ' 

 3. Hyacinthus {Utrinque Florihus) coroUis campanula- 

 tis fexpartitis, floribus utrinque difpoficis. H^hhsinth 

 with a bell-Jhaped petal which is di'vided into fix part ^ 

 and flowers ranged on each fide of the ftalk. Hyacin- 

 thus floribus campanulse utrinque dirpofitis. C. B. P 

 44. Hyacinth with bell-flmped ftowers difpofed on every 

 ftde the ftalh 

 glafl^es in proportion to the warmth of the fcafon, and j 4. Hyacinthus {Cernuus) coroUis campanulatis fexpar- 

 titis racemo cornuo. Lin. Sp. Plant. 217. Hyacinth 

 with bell-fljaped petals divided into fix parts^ and a nod- 

 ding branch of flowers, 



nulas. 



_ , otherwife 



draw up too weak. When the plants are about two 

 inches high, they Ihould be tranfplanted each into a 

 feparate fmall pot filled with light rich earth, and 

 plunged again into the hot-bed of tanners bark, being 

 careful to Ihade them from the heat of the fun, until 

 they have taken new root -, after which time they muft 

 have free air admitted to them, by raifing of the 



cafoi 



, „ ,, Wh 



plants have filled thefe fmall pots with their roots, 

 they mufl: be fhaken out of 'them, and their roots trim- 

 med, and then placed in larger pots, v/hich Ihould 



Hyacinthus , floribus campa. 

 uno verfu difpofitis. C. B. P. 44. Hyacinth 



be filled with the like rich earth, and plunged again I with hell-fhaped flowers ranged on one fide the ftalk, 

 into the hot-bed, where they Ihould remain till Mi- | 5. Hyacinthus {Ainethyftinum) corollis campanulatis 

 chaelmas, provided the plants have room, without j femifexfidis bafi cylindricis. Hort. Upfal. 58. Hya- 

 touching of the glafl^es, at which time they mufl: be I cinth with helUflj aped petals cut half way into fix parts^ 

 removed into the bark-fl:ove, and plunged in the I and a cylindrical bafe, Hyacinthus obkjngo ca^rulea 

 warmefl: part thereof: during the winter feafon they I flore minor. C. B. P. 44. LeJJ'er Hyacinth with an ob- 

 mufl: be fparingly watered, for as the plants have fuc- j- long blue flower. "_-' , ' 



culent ftalks, much moifl:ure will rot them ; tliey muft j 6. Hyacinthus' (OnV;//^//j) corollis infundibuliformi- 



alfo be kept very warm, otherwife they ^vill not live in 

 ^ this country. In fummer they muft have a large fliare 

 of frefli air in warm weather, but they muft not be re- 

 moved into the open air, for they are .'. too ten3er to 

 live abroad in the warmeft part of the year in this 



countrv. 



* *7 r-r 



This plant is how pretty'common in the Englifli 



gardens,.. wKere there are coUedbions offender plants 

 *- preferved, fome of which are grown to the height of 

 ..twelve or fourteen feet, and many of them have pro- 

 , . duced flowers, but there has not been any of their 



fruit produced as yet in England. 



As thefe plants have ample leaves, which are of a j their flowers arefo large, double, and finely coloured, 



bus ferpif^jcfi^is bafi vcntricofis. Hort, Upfal. 85. Hy- 

 acinth with a funnel-Jhaped petal cut half into fiix parts, 

 anS 'Jwelling' af their bafe. ^^' Hyacinthus Orientalis 

 atbus primus. C. B. P, 44. Early White Eaflern Hy- 

 acinth. 



The forts here mentioned are all of them diftinct fpe- 

 cies, of which there are feveral variedes, efpecialJyof 

 the fixth, which have been cultivated with fo miich 

 art, as to render fome of them the mofl: valuable 

 flowers of the fpring ; in Holland the gardens abound 

 with them, where" the florifts have railed fo many va-, 

 rieties as to amount to fome hundreds ; and fome of 



beautiful green colour, they afford an agreeable va- 

 riety among other tender exotic plants in the ftove; 

 for where they are kept warm, and duly refreflied 

 with water, they retain their leaves all the year in ver- 

 dure. 



as that their roots are valued at twenty or thirty 

 pounds fterling each root; to enumerate thefe varie- 

 ties here, would fwell this work to very little purpofe, 

 as every year produces new kinds. 

 The firft fort grows naturally in woods and' near 



The^ fruit of this plant is, by the inhabitants of the j hedges, in lands which have lately been woods, in 



many parts of England, fo is feldom admitted into 



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grew, and the feeds carefully taken out, after which 

 the fliells are ufed to contain fand for writing, which 

 ave rife to the name of Sand-box. When thefe 



ruit are brought entire into England, it is' very diffi- 

 cult to preferve them ; for when the heat of the fum- 

 mer comes on, they ufually burft with an explofion, 

 and fcatter their feeds about; and from the noife made 

 by the ripe fruitVit was by Hernandez titled, Arbor 

 crepitans 



gardens ; but the poor people, who make it their 



bufinefs to gather the wild flowers of the fields and 



woods for nofegays, &c. bring great quantities o( 



thefe in the fpring to London, and fell them about' 



the ftreets. 



There is a variety of this with white flowers, which is 



kept in fome gardens, which only differs in the colour 



of their flowers from the other. 



The fecond fort is preferved in fome few gardens 



HYAC INT Pius. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 344. tab. [ for the fake of variety, but as it hath as little beauty 

 .180. Lin. Gen. Plant. 427. Hyacintli: in French, ' ' " - - - 



r. The Characters are, 

 The flower has no empalcment. It has one bell-fhaped 

 petals who fe rim is cut into fix parts^ which are reflexed\ 

 and three neEiariums on the point of the germen^ with fix 

 fhort awlfiraptd ftamiyia^ terminated by fummits^ which 

 clofe together. In the center is fitiiatzd a roundifh three- 

 cornered germen^ having three furrows fupp or ting a fingle 

 ftyle^ ^crowned by an obtufe ftigrna. The germen after- 

 ward becomes a , roundifh three-cornered capfule^ having 

 three cells'^ which contain roundiflj feeds. 

 This genus of ^plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linnx-us's fixth clafs, intitied Plexandria Monogy- 



as the firft, fo is feldom allowed a place in the flower- 

 garden. The flowers, of this are narrower than thofe 

 of the firft fort, and feem as if their petab were divided 

 to the bottom, three of the outer fegmcnts being fe- 

 parated from the Other, ftanding at a fmall diftancc 

 from the three interior, but they are all joined at their 

 bafe •, when the flowers firft appear, they are of a 

 light blue colour, but before they decay, they fade 

 to a worn-out purple colour. This flowers eariy iii 

 the fpring, and grows naturally in Spain and Mau- 

 ritania. 



The third fort grows naturally in Spain and Italy; 

 this hath blue flowers of the open fpread bell-fliapt"? 



which are divided into fix fegments almoft to the bot- 

 tom. 



