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I3tb, Rex Indiarum is a bold, fullen, dark-coloured 

 flower, its ftem is high, which is well lurrounded with 

 large bells of a very fine and vaftly dark blue colour, 

 flriped with black; it feeds well, and blows late. 



14th, Dolphin is a fine flower, quite refembling the 

 fliining various colours of the dolphin fifh, with a high 

 ftem and large bells, finely and varicufiy coloured ; it is 

 backward in feeding, and blows late : This flower is now 

 much valued. 



15 th, Gekrocnde Moer, or Crowned MooVf is of a dark, 

 (hining, elegant blue colour, and its ftem is well fet 

 with large bells of the colour above defcribed ; the pe- 

 dicles of its bells are fnort and ftrong, and bear them 

 very ere6f, and carry a full face; it feeds, and blof- 

 foms late. 



1 6th, i?rw7/o« is a flower of a brown colour, having 

 its ftem of the fame colour, with ftrongere6t bells, fine- 

 ly ftriped with a biiglu fliining beau blue ; it feeds, and 

 blows late, and is a new flower, and bears a good price. 



I come now to defcribe the light-coloured fingle, ard 

 femi-double flowering Hyacinths. 



id, Pa[fa Cato is one of the largeft belled fingle flowers 

 ■yet raifed, it has a middling high flem, thick and very 

 rtrong; its bells are of an indifferent blue, mixed with a 

 duflcy green ; it is not fo valuable as formerly, and feldom 

 feeds; it blows early. 



2d, Flore maculato is a fine large flower ; the flem is 

 high, the bells of a good light blue, are very prettily, in 

 the innermofl: parts of its. petals, mixed with fmall drops 

 of a very bright white, from v/hich fpotting it takes its 

 name; it is an old, but valuable flower, an<l has not ap 

 peared in the Dutch catalogues for fome years pafl ; it 

 feeds, and from it I raifed fome very fine double^and 

 fingle flowers; it blows early. 



3d, Bontcnhelt blauwe en IVilte GePrccpt bonte \, this is 

 a mod charming flower; its flem is preity high, which 

 is adorned with hells of a middling fi/e, remarkably 

 ftriped the whole length of the bell, with a bright fhin- 

 ing white, and a beau blue colour; it feeds well, and 

 from its feed was raifed ihc fine double blue flower, 



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