li)4< IIOKTICULTURAL TOUR. 



tinuation of the work is now announced for publication by 

 Mr, Frertuck, at the Industrie Comptoir in Weimar. Mr 

 Schneevogt shewed us likewise a very uncommon sort of 

 publication, intimately connected with horticulture. It is 

 entitled, " Pomologisches Cabinet." Instead of being il- 

 lustrated with coloured engravings, each fasciculus of the 

 work is accompanied with a box of casts or models, appa- 

 rently made of wax, and tinted after nature. The models 

 are executed by an artist at Erfurt, but the publication is- 

 sues from the Industrie Comptoir of Weimar already men- 

 tioned. Twenty-six fasciculi, and their corresponding box- 

 es of models, are already published. Theexpenee of each 

 fasciculus and box is about a ducat (nearly nine shillings). 

 It would be desirable that both of these publications should 

 be procured for the library of the Horticultural Society. 



Before bidding adieu to the bloemistries ? we may men- 

 tion, that the principal florists commonly unite in publishing 

 yearly a general catalogue of their bulbous and tuberous 

 rooted flowers. This is entitled, " Groote Hollandsche Ca- 

 talogus van de aller voortreffelljkste Bol-Bloemen. 1 '' Hya- 

 cinths take the lead, and are followed by Tulips, Ranun- 

 culuses, Anemones, and Polyanthus-Narcissus. 



Of double-flowered Hyacinths, of different colours, reds, 

 whites and blues, it enumerates more than 800; and of sin- 

 gle-flowered about half as many. — But we have already 

 enlarged sufficiently on the subject of hyacinths, and shall 

 now say so m e th ing regarding 



Tulips. — Towards the middle of the 17th century, the 

 cult ure of these was more ardently pursued than at present. 

 What has been called the Tulipomania then reigned ; but 

 many ridiculous stories have been told of the extravagant 

 pi ires paid for tulip roots ; for the mania did not, we believe, 



