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lover of those flowers as Sir Thomas Hanmer was a 

 member. He was one of those who devoted much time 

 to the culture of that flower, when the tulip mania was 

 at its height, and raised new varieties, which were known 

 by his name, "the agate Hanmer." In 1703 the list of 

 bulbs purchased is carefully noted. There were " 200 

 'junquiles' at 6s. a hundred; for 200 tulips at 5s. a 

 hundred ; for 100 yellow Dutch crocus, for 50 Armatha- 

 galum." The spelling of "junquiles" is much more 

 correct than our modern "jonquil," and all the old 

 writers would have written it so. Parkinson, in 1629, 

 describes them as " Narcissus juncifolius " or the " Jun- 

 quiUa or Rush DafFodill " ; but " Ornithogalum " was too 

 much for the Temple scribe. The " Ornithogalum " or 

 " Starre of Bethlehem," and probably one of the rarer 

 varieties, must be meant by " Armathagalum." The 

 Arabian variety was then " nursed in gardens," but it 

 should be " housed all the winter, that so it may bee 

 defended from the frosts," wrote Parkinson, and sadly 

 admitted that the two roots sent to him " out of Spain " 

 had " prospered not " " for want of knowledge " of this 

 " rule." There was also the " Starre flower of i^thio- 

 pia," which " was gathered by some Hollanders on the 

 West side of the Cape of Good Hope " ; and this is more 

 likely to have been the variety bought for the Temple 

 with the other Dutch bulbs. Among the other pur- 

 chases were various shrubs, on which the topiary art was 

 then commonly practised. There were "15 yew trees 

 for the Great Garden in pots, ... 4 box trees for the 

 grass plots, . . . 12 striped 'fiUerayes' " — this latter being 

 variegated phillyreas (most likely angustifolia)^ which were 

 largely used for cutting into quaint shapes. Another 

 account is for "28 standard laurels, 4 * perimic ' (laurels), 



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