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a few inches high, but with each frond separate and 

 curled up, which will be the outside fronds of next 

 year, and within that, again, is a third ball of fronds 

 not yet separate, and with the points all tucked into 

 one common centre, and these will be the outside 

 fronds of the year after next. I will finish this long 

 account of the tulip by saying that though it must 

 have been known to the Greek and Latin writers, it 

 has not been found possible to identify it with cer- 

 tainty with any plant named by them. Its present 

 name was given by Gesner in the sixteenth century, 

 being the name of the Dalmatian hat, or cap, which 

 the reflexed tulip was thought to resemble. 



The tulip has led me too far astray, and left me 

 little room to speak of the other flowers of May. I 

 am much pleased this year with Genista Andreami, 

 which flowered sparingly when young, but now bears 

 an abundance of flowers. It is certainly a most de- 

 sirable new plant, and is perfectly hardy, as we 

 might expect from a plant of which one parent is our 

 common broom, if, indeed, it is not a mere variety 

 of the wild plant. I am surprised that it should do 

 so well here, for the wild broom seldom grows well 

 on lime, and so I do not attempt it. After flowering, 

 my plant showed signs of withering, which I at first 

 thought might arise from the drought ; but, seeing 



