1*J8 nOUTiCl'LTUKAL TOUR. 



A loyal Englishman is supplied with Georgius Terlius of 

 several different colours ; or with Guillaume Pitt or Myn- 

 heer Fox, as he may incline ; while General Washington 

 and Mynheer Franklin are at the service of those who 

 come from the other side of the Atlantic. 



It seems strange that none of the modern Haarlem flo- 

 es 



rists has published a book on the culture of bulbous- 

 rooted plants. We inquired in vain for any recent work 

 on the subject ; and believe that none has appeared since 

 the days of Van Kampen. The earliest account of the 

 Dutch modes of culture which we have met with, is con- 

 tained in a small volume entitled " The Dutch Garde- 

 ner," by Henry Van Oosten of Leyden, published about 

 the year 1699, and translated into English in 1703. Se- 

 venty pages of this little work, it may be noticed, are oc- 

 cupied in treating of tulips, while hyacinths are dis- 

 patched in four, — a clear proof of the superior estimation 

 in which tulips were then held. Some additional particu- 

 lars may be found in a tract entitled Le Jardin de Hol- 

 lander published at Leyden by John du Vivier, a few years 

 after the former. The author appears to have been a French 

 Protestant refugee, and to have written chiefly for the use 

 of his countrymen, who, like himself, had been compelled to 

 flee, upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes. " Par ce 

 petit ouvrage," he says, " j'ai voulu procurer quelque dou- 

 ceur et quelque plaisir a plcusieurs d'entre les Francois, 

 qui sV'tant tonus formes dans leur sainte religion, et ayant 

 conserve leur conscience pure, sont venus s'etablir dans ces 

 bien heureuses Province*.'" — Strange ! that, after the lapse 

 of ;i century, in which the progress of knowledge and of Ji- 

 beral opinions has made rapid advances in most parts of 

 Europe, we should again begin to hear of the persecution of 

 tant« in France ' and ilwit. too, ;it ;i moment whew 



