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 dark blue colours ; it makes a fine fpike of flowers, is a 

 fecord blower, and merits a place in a good colle£tion 

 of Hyacinths. 



I3tfi. Gloria Florum, is a very large double flower, with 

 a high ftem, which is richly garnifhed with larae and 

 double bells, of exquHlie beautv, as to their colours 

 and their fliape, they make a very fine fpike of flowers ; 

 it blows eaily, and continues long in bloom. 



14th. Rie7i ne me furpnjfe, or Nothing fnrpaffes me, is 

 a very fine flower, with prodigiouily large expanded bells, 

 upon a high Item, which are of an exquifite fine beau- 

 tiful blue on the outfide of their bells, are fomewhat 

 pendulous, their hearts or innermoft petals being of 

 a vaflly dark coloured blue, feathered with petals like 

 rays, all about them, which make a mighty fine fliowy 

 fpike of flowers ; it is a very late blower, and excels 

 mofl: flowers I know. 



15th. Illujlre crHoUamle, or lUuJirious of Holland ^ is 

 a very fine, large, and double new flower; its flem is high, 

 its bells furprifing, as to their form and colours, for beau^ 

 ty ; it is a Bouquet or trufs-blowing flower, and blows 

 amongll: the feconds. 



iCth. Pajfe non plus ultra, is a mofl furprifing beauti- 

 ful large flower ; its flem, its bells, together with the 

 uncommon enamel of the inner petals of its bells, flrike 

 the eye with a mofl furprifing luflre ; it is a fecond blow- 

 er. This flower has a particularity in it, which is this: 

 The fides of the bulb open in the fpring, to allow (as 

 it were) the great bud and leaves to pafs out eafily from 

 the heart of the bulb, and thefe chafms in the bulb do 

 not clofe up, until it has fully fucked enough from the 

 earth, in which it is planted, to fill up thefe chai'ms ; 

 fo that when you intend to lift it, remove the earth from 

 the bulb, and obferve if the bulb has filled up its chafm.s, 

 one, two, or more; and if they are filled up, and the 

 chafms are not there, and the bulb is round and found, 

 then, and not till then, is the time to lift it, or fuch 

 bulbs as grow in this extraordinary vigorous manner. 



17th. Afpafui Panache, is one of the prcttieft flowers 

 which have appeared ; its belts are large, quite round, 

 numerous, and erect, difplaying remarkably marbled. 



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