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May. F lower: the Form is that of the common T es 
—+— the Colour a dufky red, fometimes a deep yellow ; 
with a violet, black, or dufky Bafe, naturally |. 
terminated on each Petal by a white Line. 
T he internal Parts ate the fame as in’theother 
Tulips ; and they refer it plainly to the Hexandria | 
Monogynia, the Sixth Clafs in the Linn deawMe- 
thod, and i its firft Section. 
Culture of this Tuurp. 
It is, in the State sia ce we Aaleribs' if ‘the, 
Creature of the Gardenet’s Induftry, but in its 
natural Condition, it abounds wild in the damp 
Meadows of the Ea/, whence we learn, what ge- 
neral Cautions fhould be held in its Culture. 
It is near two hundred Years fince the Ge/nerian 
or Oriental Tulip was firft brought into the Zaro- 
pean Gardens, where this Variety of it was foon 
its Appearance in the Beds of thofe whofe Pa- 
tience raifes their Flowers from Seed. 
‘Whether branched or fimple, its own Seeds 
rarely produce any Varieties, except in regard of |. 
that Particular: the mot I have feen elfe, is,.that 
the Seeds of the yellow ‘will ‘produce the in: 
late Tulip, and thofe of the red the yellow; 
this CLusrus, diligent in Experiments, and faith 
ful in his Relations of them, found long before, 
with the fame eet 
’Tis ftrange, but it appears alfo certain, that 
the Antients were unacquainted with this fingular 
and elegant Flower. That the Greeks, ftudious of 
Plants, and Admirers, in a high Degree, of their 
Beauty as well as Virtues, fhoulé not know the 
Tulip (a Native of their own Part of the World, 
and fo diftinguifh’d by 1 its Form and Colour) is 
very fingular; but there'is not in any of their 
| Writers an Account of | it, nor a Name for it in 
their. Language. 
~The Word Tulip i is of Turki/b Origin, and late 
known; we receiv’d the elegant Kinds from them 
in 1559; and tho’ the little yellow Species with the 
drooping. Head, is native of Europe, it was long 
6verlook’d. 
They guefs idty, who fiibolt the Tulip’ the 
-Plant celebrated to fuch Extravagance by THro- 
PHRASTUS, for its invigorating Qualities, that, 
produc’d ; ‘and where it now occafionally makes | Privy (who did not ufe to ftick at little Miracles) 
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{taggers at the Repetition, and records for 1 gee 
Authority, ‘the elfewhere grave.and accurate Man- 
ner of his Original Author. . 
THEOPHRASTUS gives” no Defcription: an J4- 
dian, he fays, poftets’d that Plant, and taught 
them its Effects: it was the Ginfeng probably of 
with which they had Intercotrfe, and now cele- 
brated for like, tho’ not equal Virtues. 
HYACINTH. 
2-ZUMBUL 
Pl, 36, This is a very elegant and valuable Plant : long { with the Weight of its. numerous large Flowers. 
Fig. 2. known in our Gardens, and worthy to be -conti- The lower Part of itis varioufly and elegant- 
nued there with all kind of Attention. The Au- 
thors in general who have written of Flowers have 
mention’d it, and all under the fame Name, 
_ Hyacinth, but with various Additions from its 
Place of Growth or Accidental Marks, Oriental 
Hyacinth, and Hyacinth of Conftantinople, Indian 
Hyacinth, and Zumbul Indi: others have call’d it 
{potted Hyacinth: the Stalk and Leaves in the lower | 
Part being frequently ftain’d’ and fpotted in an 
elegant tho’ irregular Manner. 
Linnazus, who adopts Names from more 
lafting Characters, calls it Hyacinibus* corollis 
_ infundibuliformibus. femifexifidis bafi ventricofis : 
Funnel-flower’d Hyacinth, with the Flowers fwoln 
at the Bafe, and lightly cut at the Edge into fix 
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ers hold fovextremely diftiné&t from the reft, to be 
any thing more. AOice 
The Root is very large, round and white, full 
- of Juice, and hung with many thick Fibres. 
The Leaves are numerous, broad, and. very 
-confpicuous,; they refemble thofe of the. Lilly: 
they are of a frefh green, wav’d at the Edges, 
and often curl’d or twifted. 
The Stalk is round, firm, fourteen Inches hio bhi 
and upright, except that it bends toward the in | 
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naked to its Footftalk : 
| converge : 
| fhort Style with an obtufe Head. 
/ ments fhew it one of the Hexandria of Linn Aus, 
ly clouded: and fpotted with Pur ple; and ufually 
the Bottoms of the Leaves are in the fame 
Manner painted like the Stalk of the great Dragons, 
“The Flowers are very large, and naturally of 2 
Celeftial Blue: they hang in great Clufters froni 
the Top down one third of the Length of the 
Stalk: fometimes they throw themfelves all on 
one Side, in fome Plants every Way. 
‘Each has its fhort Footftalk.. In Form they re= 
femble the. other Hyacinths, but they are the 
largeft of their Kind; and by Culture their Co- 
four ‘will be chang’d in many Degrees; it will 
grow deeper or paler: there will be a Mixture of 
Red in various Proportions with the Blue, which 
| will make it Purple; and it will fometimes bé 
| | flefhy or White: 
Under this Name. he stich pealoas all the Va- 
rieties of Oriental Hyacinths, (Species as others call | 
them) and does not allow this, which the Garden- , 
~Thefe aré all fine Colours, and 
| the Flower is very elegant in all of them, but in 
none fo truly fine as in its pure celettial Blue, its 
genuine and natural Colour. . 
The Flower is form’d of one Petal, and grows 
it 1 rounded at the Bafe, 
cylindric and tubular in the Body, and at the Rim 
it turns up in fix large and elegant Segments. 
Within ftand fix fhort Filaments, whofe Buttons 
and there is in the Centre of thefe a 
The fix Fils- 
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and its finele Style one of the Monogynia, 
fixth Clafs and its firft Se@tion. 
/ modern Times, Native of a Part of the Judies . 
