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Couleur Cardinal, Couleur Ponceau, Golden Prince, Grootmeester 

 Van Maltha, Joost Van Vondal, Keizerkroon, Le Matelas, Ma plus 

 Aimable, Pottebakker, white ; ditto, yellow ; ditto, striped ; Proser- 

 pine, Qaeen of the Violets, Rembrandt, Eoi Cramoisie, Roi Pepin, 

 Samson, Thomas Moore. 



6 FiEST-CLASs Double Tulips.— Van Thol, in three sorts, 

 yellow, carmine, and scarlet, Eex Rubrorum, Tournesol, Imperator 



Ruhr or um. . . _, . 



12 SuPEEB Crocuses. — Albion, Argus, David Rizzio, Gloriosa, 

 Havelock, La Satinee, Lilacens, Lord Palmerston, Mont Blanc, Ne 

 Plus Ultra, Othello, Sir Walter Scott. All the foregoing are whites 

 and blues of various shades and styles, and all exquisitely beautiful. 

 As they want yellows to bring them out, you must buy a sufficient 

 quantity of the two best yellows. Cloth of Gold, and Largest Golden 



Yellow. ^ ,, 



6 Fine Polyanthus Naeciss. — Bazelman Major, Double 



Roman, Grand Monarque, Grand Soleil d'Or, Jaune Supreme, 

 White Pearl. 



NEW NOTES ON THE HYACINTH. 



BY J. E. SAUNBEKS, ESQ. 



|N the early part of the present year I availed myself of 

 an opportunity of visiting, in company with a friend, 

 some of the principal bulb farms in Holland, and I 

 am bound to say that I enjoyed myself thoroughly. 

 Prom London to " Rotterdam, either by the boats of the 

 Steamship Navigation Company or by the Great Eastern Railway, 

 and boats by way of Harwich, is not au unpleasant or an expensive 

 journey, and takes up very little time ; and once at Rotterdam, there 

 is not much difficulty in reaching the bulb-growing districts about 

 Haarlem. My friend, I may with advantage add, was well acquainted 

 with several of the leading'bulb growers, and we therefore met with 

 a hearty welcome, and had a better opportunity for visiting the 

 farms and nurseries than would be enjoyed by strangers having no 

 business with, or letters of introduction to, any of the growers. No 

 one must suppose that they have only to call at the house of one of 

 the growers and prefer a request to inspect the farm to insure his 

 receiving permission to do so, and the offer of a guide to show him 

 the principal objects of interest and explain the various details con- 

 nected with the multiplication and cultivation of hyacinths and 

 other bulbs for the English markets. No ; for if such suppositions 

 are indulged in, disappointment must ensue. The Dutch bulb 

 growers, like the Englisli nurserymen, make no pretence of throwmg 

 their grounds open to the public, and they set too high a value on 

 their own time and on that of their employe's to admit of them 

 furnishing guides to those with whom they are not likely to do any 

 trade. In this they do no more than their own interests justify. 

 Septsmber. 



