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NUMBER, XXXIV. 
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| Flowers and curious Plants now in their Perfeétiot. © 
TE lay! before the Reader, in the annext 
‘Plate, fix elegant Tulips, defign’d ori- 
ee ~ ginally . by the great. Hand of Van 
aol 5, purchas’d from among the Collection 
of the late Mr. Sapuzr, and. compar’d with Na- 
? ture. We. will not fay corrected by her Works ; ; 
for it is J uftice to the Memory of that accurate 
Painter, to declare we found them the fame i in Na- 
ture and on his Paper. 
‘As thefe had never been publifh’d, we judg’d it, 
would be agreeable to our Readers to give them: 
in one Plate, and fhall take this Opportunity of 
delivering at large the Culture and Management 
of that moft valu’d Flower in all its Varieties: — 
. What we have had Occafion to fay already of 
the Nature, Species, Varieties. and Characters of | 
the Tulip Kind, will fave the entering on a_parti- 
cular Detail of the Parts in this Place, and allow 
the due Compafs (after enumerating the Variations 
and Tinéts of thefe fix) to give the Culture in its 
full Scope, not from’ the repeated Pillagings of 
Authors, but Experience.. 
_ Our Reader. will remember hat he Source of 
Tulips, in)general, is from two Species; the 
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one with narrow Leaves and a drooping Flower, 
the other with ‘the Flower ereét, and the Leaves 
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T hofe. which we now lay before him are all Va- | 
rieties of the latter Kind ; 
fottis ovato-lanceolatis of Linnws : 
an upright Flower, :and lanceolate but fomewhat 
oval. Leaves. . | 
The Characters ae Genus are neceffarily “his 
fame in all; a Flower of fix Petals without a 
the Ti ulipa fore. erecio 
Tulip, with — 
Cup, fix véfy fhort Filainenits with long and large. 
Buttons; and a great ‘three-parted ‘Head’ plde’d 
without a Style’ upon ‘the’ Gerth,’ or Rudiment of 
the Seed:veffel. 
Thefe:Charaéters refer - all Tilips (fon they are. 
common ‘to them all) to ‘the: fixth Clafs in the 
‘Linn#an Syftem, the Hexandria; and to the 
Monogynias. its firft Seétion. | 
The Roots and Leaves ‘ate much alike alfo 5 
but as thefe are very obvious and well mark’d 
Varieties, there remain alfo fome fix’d tho’ flight 
Particularities > in thofe Parts, as well’ as the 
Flowers; . ! 
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