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are the most successful in cultivating bulbs for sale. I might say that 

 they carry this art to perfection; but the rapid strides which the growing 

 of the hyacinth has of late years made in Berlin gives me every reason 

 to think that, in a very few years, that city may rank with Holland, both 

 as to quality and number. On the east side of the town of Berlin, with- 

 in the walls, is a large tract of land, commonly called the Kopenicher 

 Feld, formerly old pasture ground. Here a vast number of market gar- 

 deners have of late years established themselves; and among them men 

 of capital and of taste are to be found, who, to enlarge the former and 

 gratify the latter, have betaken themselves to the cultivation of bulbs for 

 the market. Among the most important of these may be reckoned- 

 M. Krause, in the Fruchstrasse, who has not less than seven acres 

 planted with hyacinths; and, from a calculation which I made, above 

 one million of flowering bulbs, and half as many seedlings. From the 

 immense number grown of one sort, this field (for so I must call it) has 

 a grand appearance; the colors being so arranged as to resemble a rain- 

 bow; beginning with a light shade, which rises gradually to a dark blue, 

 backed with red, which is lightly led away into a pure white, and so on 

 in alternate shades to the end of the field." 



The kinds which M. Krause cultivates in large quantities are 

 as follows: 



Single Reds. — Amiable Rosette, Gellert, Madame, L'Honneur de 

 Sassenheim, Reine de Rouge, Riche en Fleurs, Rose a la Reine, Ac- 

 teur, Superbissima rubrorum, La Belle Rose. 



Double Reds. — Euterpe, Grossfurst, Hugo Gi-otius, II Pastor Fido, 

 Kosenkrantz, Von Flora, Superbe Royal. 



Single Blues. — La belle violette, Staaten-General, Appius, L'Ami de 

 Coeur, Manteau, Vulcan. 



Double Blues. — A-la-mode, La bien Aimee, Nigritenne, Mon Ami, 

 Due de Penthevre, Perle Brilliant. 



Single Yellows. — Aui-ore d'Or, Bouquet d'Orange, Jaune Meveille, 

 La Pluie d'Or, Adonia. 



Double Yellows. — Bouquet d' Orange, La Favorite, Ophir. 



Single Whites. — Imperale, Vainquier, La Jolie Blanche. 



Double Whites. — Hermine, Pass Virgo, Raath Van Staaten. 



"M. Krause had also, I observed, about four acres of early tulips in a 

 very vigorous state; the late ones were not in flower. Those which ap- 

 peared to me to be the finest grown and in greatest (juantity, were Due 

 Van Tholl, Grande Duchesse, Grootmeester Van Maltha, Nit en roode 

 borde, Standant, Tournesol, Rex rubrorum, Beaute Parfaite, Brant Van 

 Harlem, Ceiise Royal, Aurora Arachne; with an immense quantity of 

 fine seedlings, too tedious to mention. The next in rank, as a bulb grow- 

 er, may be reckoned M. Limprecht, in the Koppenstrasse. His collec- 

 tion of hyacinths, though not so large as the last, consists of bulbs, which 

 are extra well grown. M. Limprecht forces, on an average, every year, 

 from twelve thousand to fifteen thousand hyacinths, in pots, for the 

 market. The early tulips were splendid. M. Limprecht has raised a 

 variety of the Due Van Tholl from seeds, which he calls Due de Berlin. 

 It is much larger and finer colored, and is said to force better than the 

 original. Both the establishments which I have mentioned are kept in a 

 very orderly and business-like manner. In fact, the market gardeners and 

 florists in Berlin are rather a superior class of individuals: of the former 

 you shall hear more at another opportunity. It would occupy too much 

 room to enumerate here all the different gardeners that have turned 

 their attention to this branch of floriculture, it having become general; 

 but I cannot pass over the collection of M. D. Bouchi, in Blumenstrasse, 



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