ON THE DAMASK AND MUSK ROSE AND THE TULIP. 33 



If the 'above observations, although they be few, are worthy of a 

 place in your February number, it would be seasonable to insert 

 them therein. I do not pretend to great knowledge of flowers, but 

 the study of them gives me great delight, and I have derived much 

 useful information from the Floiucultural Cabinet. 



January 61 h, 1841. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE DAMASK AND MUSK ROSE 



AND THE TULIP. 



BY A. E., HOXTON, LONDON. 



In a collection of voyages, compiled by Richard Hackluyt in the 

 year 1599, is an instruction which Hackluyt wrote to a factor (or 

 what we should now call a supercargo) about to proceed to Turkey, 

 of which the following is an extract. It is curious, as showing that, 

 even at that time, there was an anxiety to introduce new plants. The 

 woollen trade of this country was then in its infancy, and no man 

 more than Hackluyt assisted to encourage it : — 



" It is reported at Saffron Walden that a pilgrim, purposing to do 

 good to his country, stole an head of saffron, and hid the same in his 

 palmer's staffe, which he had made hollow before of purpose, and so 

 brought this root into this realme, with venture of his life ; for if he 

 had been taken, by the law of the country from whence he came, he 

 had died for the fact. If the like love in this our age were in our 

 people that now become great travellers, many knowledges, and many 

 trades, and many herbs and plants, might be brought into this realme 

 that might doe the realme good. And the Romans having that care 

 brought from the coasts of the world into Italie all arts and sciences, 

 and all kind of beasts and fowles, and all herbs, trees, busks, and 

 plants that might yield profit or pleasure to their countrey of Italie. 

 And if this care had not been heretofore in our ancesters, then had 

 our life bene savage now, for then we had not had wheat nor rhie, 

 peaze nor beanes, barley nor oats, peare nor apple, vine, nor many 

 other profitable plants ; bull nor cow, sheepc nor swine, horse nor 

 mare, cock nor hen, nor a number of other things we enjoy, without 

 which our life were to be said barbarous ; for these things, and a 



