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loemcns. 2. Primo haguets. 3. Bagiiet rigauts. 

 4. Incomfcirable verports. These have white 

 bottoms or grounds. 5. Roses. And 6. Bizards. 

 Which last variety have yellow bottoms, or 

 grounds ; i. e. the general colour of the petals is 

 yellow, with markings or streaks of other tints. 

 The roses have white grounds, with rose-coloured 

 margins, spots, and streaks. 



There are, besides, in the extensive family of 

 the tulip, peculiar varieties of all the above ; 

 which are valued for singularity of form or 

 colour. Such are those called parrots, from the 

 odd mixture of tints and irregular form and po- 

 sition of their petals. Double-flowered, sweet- 

 scented, &c., all which varieties, though not ad- 

 mitted to the distinguished honour of a place in 

 the principal tulip-bed, are, notwithstanding, 

 highly ornamental gems of the border. 



To preserve neatness and order among the 

 flowers, it is necessary they be tied up, to pre- 

 vent them falling from their place. Small green 

 lines are extended from end to end of the bed, 

 ranging with the rows ; these stretched tightly 



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