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TULIPA SUAVEOLENS. EARLY DWARF 



Tulip. 

 t ♦ » ft ♦ ft ♦ it ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ » 



Clafs and Order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. N um - 717. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TULIPA Juaveolens foliis glaucis, lanceolatis, approximate 

 fcapum uniflorum villofum fubaequantibus ; flore 

 erecto, campanulato-patulo ; ftaminibas lacinns 

 3 — 4 brevioribus ; antheris ftigmata paululum iu- 

 perantibus. G. 



TULIPA Juaveolens, RothCatal Bot.i. p. 45. Wttd.Sp.TU 



2. 97*. 

 TULIPA pumilio. Lobel.ic. 127. 

 TULIPA dubia pumilio. Cluf. Hijl. 148. 



We are glad to fee this beautiful genus beginning to difpiay 

 its fpecies in our books, and not considered as a mere collection 

 of varieties any more than its neighbours : we find already three 

 new ones in Redoute's Liliacees, and our prefent plant has 

 but lately received its rank. Has been known among Florifts 

 by the.Gallo-Dutch appellation of Due Van Tbol ,- one of the 

 earlieft blowers, and the mod ufed for blowing within doors, 

 which it does about January, and in open ground in March and 

 April. The beft roots come from Holland. Suppofed to be a 

 native of the South of Europe ; and, as we think, is fnfficiently 

 diftinguifhed by the above fpecific character from all its con- 

 geners. 



Very fweet-fcented*. G. 



* At Mr. Curtts's, Florift at Walworth, we have this day (April 21) 

 been gratified with the fight of a large bed of this fpecies of Tulip, containing 

 many hundred roots, all in full bloffom and very nearly alike in nature, f° rnn,n ? 

 a carpet of fcarlet and gold, which, when illumined by the fun, pours tortn 

 fuch a blaze of refplendent colouring, as can hardly be conceived. 



