148 REPORT OF THE TULIP NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE. 



1668. ABRAHAM COWLEY. Poemata latina in quibus continentur sex 



libri plantarum. London. 



Few realize in what esteem Cowley was held in his day. Tulips 

 occupy a space in the third book. Flora at the end of the fourth book 

 says, in dealing with the rival claims of the flowers : " The vernal 

 Praetorship, Thou, Tulip ! take." 



* There is a translation of the whole poem into English by Nahum 

 Tate, published at London in 1 795 . 



1669. ROMER VISSCHER. Zinncpoppen. Amsterdam. 



The rising passion for tulips is ridiculed. 



1669. VAN AITZEMA. Saken van Staet en Oorlog. (Vol. ii. p. 504.) 

 S'Gravenhaage. 



Copy of decree of the States-General of Holland dated April 20, 

 1637- 



1671. W. A. STROMER VON REICHENBACH. Die edle Gartenwissen- 



schaft, aus Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis horticultura, 

 &c. Number g. 



The German edition of Lauremberg's "Apparatus plantarius " (see 

 1632). 



1672. ABR. MUNTING. * Waare Oeffening der Plan ten, &c. Amsterdam. 



Details about happenings in the mania time. 



1675. J. B. GENT. * New additions to the Art of Husbandry. 



London. 



A good example of the impossible means that were sometimes 

 advocated to " make any Tulip of what Colour you please." Here two 

 bulbs of equal size are each to be slit into two equal halves and then 

 one half of each joined with " Cruel, or Yarn or Worsted," and then 

 " clayed up very well all over " and planted. 



1676 (c.). D. H. CAUSE. *De Koninglycke Hovenier. Amsterdam. 



Details of cultivation. 

 1678. Author unknown. Traite des Tulipes. Paris. 



Plagiarism of "Le Flo riste Fran gois," with some chapters omitted. 



1681. JOH. FRISSCHIUS. Historische, Philosophische, en Politische 



Rustuuren, door S. de Vries. Amsterdam. 

 References to the mania time. 



1682. SAMUEL GILBERT. * The Florist's Vade-mecum. London. 



List of the best varieties, details of making and then arranging a 

 tulip bed. Cultivation and the raising of seedlings are all dealt with. 



1688. J. RAY. *Historia plantarum. (Vol. ii.) 



1689. J. W. VALVASSOR. Die Ehre des Herzogthums Krain in 



reines Teutsch gebracht und mit manchen Erklarungen, 

 &c. Laybach. 



A list of the 107 varieties cultivated in the palace garden at 

 Gayeran, near Gottschee, in Carniola, with their commercial value. 



1689. A. G. BUSBEQUIUS. Epistolae de rebus Turcicis. 



The famous account of Busbequius' journey to Constantinople as 

 Ambassador of the Emperor Ferdinand, in the course of which he saw 

 tulips in flower for the first time. The result was the introduction 

 of garden tulips into middle and western Europe. An English 

 translation of part of Busbequius' works appeared in 1694 entitled 

 " Epistles concerning his Embassy into Turkey." 



1690. TENZEL. Monatliche Unterredungen. 



Early references to double tulips and their value. 

 * These books can be consulted in the Lindley Library. 



