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the PLEasune- GARDEN. 
Flowers and curious Plants now. in their Perfection. 
1. The 
April. 
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- Fig. 1. 
' , TE Fale already faid fo much of the 
Tulip | Kind, that our Student will be 
"In no Danger of ranking every Variety 
as a Species. | 
The Creatures of the Gardener’s Art are in no 
Flower more numerous ; but the original Plants 
from which they are rais’d are few. Thofe which 
flower early have their Value thence; even tho’ 
there were little of the general gaudy Colouring 
to recommend them; but this has more than fuch 
‘Claim, to the Regard of the Floritt. 
~The early Tulips in general are fhort ‘in the 
Stalk, and have the Flower finall: this, though 
it does not equal many of the later Kinds in thofe 
Refpects, is of a middle Character in both; as 
much above many of the early Tulips, as below 
_fome of the later; and its Flower has a very bold 
and lively Colouring. 
We have fpoken of the indeterminate Nature 
of the Gardeners Names for Tulips; they are in- | 
deed worth little Notice; the Peculiarity of this 
is well exprefs’d by the Term Embroidered, the fe- 
cond Colour being fo laid on in that Manner, that 
the moft vulgar Eye will fee the Propriety of the 
Expreffion. 
The earlier Writers have call’d it 7; ulipa pumila, 
- and Tulipa bicolor; the low Tulip, and the two- 
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4. 
EMBROIDERED. TULIP. 
colour’d ye but thefe ceafe to Fi Diftindtions, 
now the Varieties are fo multiply’d, 
_Linnatus refers it to his fecond Species under 
this Head, Tulipa [capo triphyllo foliis ovato-lance~ 
olatis : Tulip, with oval lanceolate Leaves, three 
on a Stalk. : 
’ This laft Charaéter however is uncertain: he 
has retrench’d it from: the fpecific Name. in his 
lateft Works, and’ adds in its Place, flore eretio, 
with an upright Flower ; the F lower of the wild 
: yellow European Tulip drooping. 
‘The Root is bulbous, fhort, flefhy, and. fwell- 
ing out at the Bottom. The Colour is brow, 
and the outfide Skin is often woolly. The Sub: 
{tance of the Root is firm, white, and juicy; 
and from its Bafe run a few flender Fibres. 
The Leaves are long, but they have a confi- 
derable Breadth,’ and are fharp-pointed : they are 
fiefhy and of a frefh green, with a light Tinge of 
blueifh. 
The Stalk is fourteen Inches high, round, tole-- 
rably upright, and a little downy : its Colour is a 
pale green, and it is ufually ftreak’d-with red. 
There are ufually three Leaves on it, but this is 
Not certain: they are of the fame Shape with 
thofe from the Root, and are covered with a 
greyifh Dutt. 
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April. 
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