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1760. NICHOLAS VAN KAMPEN ET FILS. * Traite des Fleurs a Oignons. 



Haarlem. 



Full details of cultivation and seedling raising are given. 

 An English translation appeared in 1763 called " The Dutch Florist/' 



1760. J. P. R. D'ARDENE. * Traite des Tulipes. Avignon. 



The most famous of tulip monographs. Fullest details of the 

 flower's history, bibliography, nomenclature, and cultivation are given. 

 There are two black-and-white engravings. 



1764. [FuARD DE CASTEL.] L'Ecole du Jardinier fleuriste. Paris. 

 The earliest picture of the covering for a tulip bed appears as the 

 frontispiece of the ist edition (1764). It is wanting in later editions. 



1764. JAMES JUSTICE. * The British Gardener's Director. Edinburgh. 

 Some interesting items of information, lists of varieties and cultural 

 details are given. 



1767 VON BLAINVILLE. Reisebeschreibung besonders durch Italien, 

 iibersetzt von J. T. Kohler. (Vol. v.) Lemgo. 



Tale of an Englishman named Matthews brought before a law-court 

 for stealing (?) tulip bulbs. Tulip tales were not all of them of the 

 mania time. 



1767. J. T. JABLONSKY. Allgemeines Lexicon dei Kunste und Wissen- 



schaften. (Vol. ii.) 



1767. NICOLAS VAN KAMPEN ET FILS. Description exacte et sincere 

 des plus belles Jacinthes et Tulipes. Haarlem. 

 Supplements were published in 1769 and 1770. These last were 

 in English. 



A long list of all varieties of tulips with their descriptions offered 

 for sale by this very famous Dutch firm of florists. 



1768-72-86. CHRISTOPHER JACOB TREW. Hortus Nitidissimus. N urn- 

 berg. 



Three volumes were issued at different dates. Pictures of single 

 and double tulips, including several of the ' Due ' varieties. Notes 

 on the early history of the flower and seedling raising. Most of the 

 tulips have varietal names. 



1769. J. ROSENKRANTZ. Der Hollandische Aufmerksame Gartner. 



Amsterdam. 

 1770-71. A. HANBURY. A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. 



(In 2 vols.) 



Interesting original remarks on tulips. 

 1771. P. S. PALLAS. Reisen durch verschiedene Provinzen des 



russischen Reichs 1771 bis 1776. (Vol. iii.) 



Tulipa biflora. 



1771. H. CHR. VON BROCKE. Beobachtungen von Blumen. Leipsic. 



Notes upon the estimation in which parrot tulips or monstrosities 

 were held. 



1771. JOHN DICKS. The New Gardener's Dictionary. London. 



In the article " Tulip " typical " early, middling, and late " popular 

 varieties are fully described. Fig. 31 of the ' Cluster Tulip ' is 

 noteworthy as evidence of its being then in garden cultivation, 

 M. Bony has lately reproduced the same type, of which the pioneer is 

 named ' Mons. S. Mottet.' 



1772. J. BECKMANN. Physikalisch-okonomische Bibliotheck. (Vol. iii. 



History of the tulip mania* 

 *. These books can be consulted in the Lindley Library. 



