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they are not very seldom disappointed; for the 

 Dutchman is something like the Jew in his dealing. 

 You must not expect great bargains for little money : 

 he is very seldom charged, I believe, with sending 

 us any of his best flowers among his common mix- 

 tures ; his Pell-mells, as the florist calls them, are, 

 upon the whole, very indifferent, and not worth the 

 amateur's notice. 



This tribe of named flowers is so very numerous, 

 that to give a list of their names would occupy more 

 space than I can allow them in this short treatise ; I 

 will therefore only add the names of a few of them. 



