Gardening in Scotland. 4 5 



hues which brought the flower into such 

 increased celebrity. 



At the same time, it is due to the Dutch 

 to say that, at all events in the first quarter 

 of the seventeenth century, considerable 

 progress had been made among them in the 

 propagation both of the tulip and hyacinth ; 

 and in 1615 Crispin de Passe the younger 

 published at Utrecht his Hortus Floridus, 

 with an English descriptive letterpress, seem- 

 ing to shew that at that early date the in- 

 terest in these bulbs had increased with 

 ourselves. The engravings to the work 

 above-cited exhibit numerous species of the 

 tulip and other flowers of the same family 

 or growth, and in the copy which is in the 

 British Museum they are presented in their 

 natural colours. 



At a somewhat later period, namely in 

 1630, Crispin de Passe published at London < 

 his Book of Beasts, Birds, Flowers, Fruits, 

 etc., of which there is a copy in the Museum. 

 The chief part of works of this class there are 

 from the benefaction of Sir Joseph Banks. 



