150 REPORT OF THE TULIP NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE. 



1725. EDWARD YOUNG. The Universal Passion. (Satire ii.) Prob. 

 London. 



Young was famous as a poet in the beginning of the eighteenth 

 century. A fashionable tulip-grower of the period and his Quaker 

 servant are ridiculed in this satire. Compare the reference to The 

 Taller, J. Addison, 1710. 



1730. JOHN COWELL. * The Curious and Profitable Gardener. London. 



Notes on rearing tulips from seed, and on means to be adopted for 

 " breaking " them. 



1730* JEAN DE LA QUINTINYE. Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers 

 et potagers, &c. Paris. 

 In this edition there is a chapter on tulips, with a list of varieties. 



1731. PHILIP MILLER. * The Gardeners' Dictionary. London. 



In all the editions of this famous work, under the head of Tulipa, 

 there is a great deal of interesting reading. Cultivation and the raising 

 of seedlings are fully dealt with. 



I 737- C. LINNAEUS. * Hortus Cliffortianus. Amsterdam. 



List of plants, with some illustrations of plants cultivated in the 

 garden of George Clifford at Hartecamp, near Haarlem. Under Tulips 

 we read, " Varietatem primarium dicerem Tulipam caule multifloro." 



1739. J- A PLUCHE (L/ABBE). Spectacle de la Nature or Nature 

 Displayed. English Translation by Samuel Humphreys. 

 London. 



In volume ii. there is some interesting historical information about 

 the tulip. Mr. Bentley refers to this in his articles on " The Florists' 

 Tulip," 1894-95. 



1741. J. C. BENEMANN. Die Tulpe zum Ruhm ihres Schopfers, 



&c. &c. Dresden and Leipsic, 

 I745- J- W. WEINMANN. *Phytanthozaiconographia. (Vol. iv.) 



Ratisbon. 



Pictures of tulips, including three " parrot " varieties and one 

 branched called " Tulipa polianthos ex albo et puniceo variegata." 



1747. Author unknown. * The Compleat Florist. London. 



Five plates of tulips. One is of the Due Van Thol, which can be 

 " planted in pots and set in greenhouses." 



1750. G. W. KNORR. Thesaurus rei herbariae hortensisqne uni- 

 versalis exhibens figuras, &c. Nurnberg. 

 Curious picture of a parrot tulip, with both perianth and foliage 

 laciniated. 



1754. J. P. MOET. Traite des Renoncules, des (Billets, des Auricules, 

 et des Tulipes. Paris. 



A plagiarism. It is largely based on the " Floriste f ran 9013 " (1654). 

 (C/. 1678.) 



1757. Biologia Britannica. (Vol. iv., London. 



A note by Hakluyt about instructions given to English merchants 

 trading with Turkey. 



1758. J. HILL. * A Method of Producing Double Flowers from Single. 



London. 



When it was all the rage to get double flowers, tulips naturally 

 came in for much attention. Since " the parts of it are large and 

 plain," Hill took it as an example of how the desired change might be 

 effected. 



* These books can be consulted in the Lindley Library. 



