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About the tune that the former fort is in flower, ano- 

 ther kind, called the Double Snovj-drop, expands its blof- 

 foms ; it is botanically named, Narciffo-Leucoiutn flore 

 pleno minus, Boerh. index. — This flower continues long 

 in bloom, and makes a fine appearance with its double 

 bloflbms, the inner petals whereof are firft of a green 

 colour, tipt with white, and afterwards, as the flower 

 advances, turns to a bright white. It has not fo good a 

 fcent as that fort called in the Dutch catalogues Donfoly, 

 for in all double flowers, the multiplicity of the petals 

 or leaves of the flower, obftruft the organs of generati- 

 on, in which the fcent of the flower lies. They do 

 not increafe fo fafl: as the fingle, but in all refpecls re- 

 quire the fame culture. 



The laft kind of Snow-drop is called the Greatejl Snow- 

 dropy and botanically, Narcilfo-Leucoium altijftmunh fiore 

 albo parvo, apicibus viridibus, Boerh. index. I mentiort 

 this flower here, becaufe it is of the fame clafs, though 

 It does not flower until the month of Aday. It is a hardy 

 plant, and its bulb is as large as a Polyanthus Narcijfus : 

 its feed-veflels contain a round feed, which, when ripe, 

 is of a clear fhining black colour, as big as the feeds of 

 Hyacinths, and feem to promife, with proper care and 

 indufliry, an agreeable variety of flowers, though hither- 

 to I have not heard of any improvement of that kind. 

 The number of its flowers upon one ftalk never exceed 

 three or four. They fhow well in borders, from their 

 fine flrong fliem, and green leaves, when planted among 

 other flowers of their time of blowing. Their culture 

 is the fame as direfted for the fmaller kind of Snovj-drop* 



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