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Curious Plants and Flowers now in their Perfeétion. 
1 THE LATE DOUBLE TULIP. 
later Time. The Paris Garden lids affotded two 
others, which they diftinguifh by the: Names 
of the Crouftilleufe, and the Monftre jaune double , 
June: 
June. qe HE Tulip, as well as other Kinds, is 
_ fs capable of that Multiplicity of Petals 
PI. 40. which makes what we call Doublenefs in 
Fig. 1. a Flower, but it-is not in this State ufually much | the curled, whimfical, and the monitrous yellow 
regarded : the Beauty of that. Flower is naturally | double Tulips: © ia | 
of another Sort, and: the Doublenefs is rarely per- | It is fingular that all thefe have been of the 
fe&. SNOT: eek Pee see ved Jate Tulip Kind. Cxusrus gives this Particulae _ 
. The Flower we here prefent. to the curious | in the Name of his, 7; ulipa ferotina viridis duplict 
_ Reader, deferves, however, to be exempted from foliorum ferie: and Besuzr adds the fanié Charac- 
that general Difregard; as there is in it befide a | ter of Latenefs to both his, 7; ulipa ferotina fiore pleno 
great deal of Elegance, a Singularity in the Dou- ‘| mimato: and Tulipa ferotina tota lutea flore pleno : 
blenefs unknown in any other Kind. | the late green, double; the late red, double; and 
If we would look into the Origin of double | the late yellow, double Tulip : of the French, the 
Tulips, we fhall find they have been known al- | firft is of the variégated Kind, and thé other of 
‘moft as long as the Flower itfelf has been intro- | the great yellow, both alfo late Tulips. 
duced into our Gardens. : pee APO - Our Gardens afford feveral Tulips which are 
[tis not quite two hundred Years fince the firtt | more or lef double, early and late, tho* not exa@: 
Eaftern Tulip made its Appearance in Europe ; ly of either of thefe Kinds 5 and they are partly 
and within twenty Years after, CLusius gave an | fuch as have numerous, equal Petals ; partly thofe 
‘Account of a Tulip of the late Kind, with a | with Clufters, of fmall and irregular ones, curling 
double Series of Petals. & about the Bafe of the Infide of the Flower, 
This was the firft double Tulip feen in Europe, Few of thefe deferve Attention ; and. we men- 
tion without Cenfure, the Difregard Florifts. thew 
and was a poor Flower ;: the Colour being prin- 
‘ipally green: the Singularity, however, recom- | them; but this, of which we treat in the prefent 
Chapter, is not to be rank’d among them. 
mended it to his Notice, and to that of others : 
fince that Time Brsier has figur’d two, a fearlet The general Growth is as in the common Tu: 
and a yellow, both elegantly double, and of much lips. ans : 
6D | The 
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