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REMARKS, 
TULIP—Tulifia gesneriana. 
Inno clas of plants has nature so varied her delicate tints” 
as In this; it would secm as if each change which nature. or 
art is capable of forming, was included in the varying beau- 
ties of the Tulip, above 1,100 varieties of which are culti- 
vated in some of the gardens of Holland. All the finer va- 
rieties, however, of this delighiful flower, have been obtain- 
ed, by cultivation and art, during the Jast two centuries, 
through the perseverance of the Dutch, French, and Fiemish 
florists ; several kinds of which possess a delightful fragrance, 
' although persons who are ignorant of this circumstance, have 
made the want of it an objection to this splendid flower.— 
About the middle of the seventeenth century the rage for 
_. this flower was so great in Holland, that from four to twenty- 
five thousand florins were given for a single root. The Tu- 
lip called Semper Augustus was sold for ten thousand florins, 
-($ 4,000,) and the one called Viceroi, for twenty-five thousand 
florins, ($ 10,000.) This extraordinary traffic was, however, 
soon checked by the interference of the Legislature,” who 
enacted that no Tulip, or other flower, should be in future 
sold for a sum exceeding about fifty guineas; and so effectual 
has been this law, that at present the highest price of any 
Tulip in that country is only one hundred and fifty. 
florins, ($ 60,) and the highest priced Lily three hundred 
florins, (B 120.) Tulips are divided into early and late 
blowers; the former begin blooming about the 15th of April, 
and are foilowed by the later kinds in succession until the 
end of May; the late kinds produce the largest flowers, the 
stems of which are generally from twenty to thirty inches in 
height. 
HYACINTHS—Ayacinthus orientalis. 
This favourite flower, which, with its great beauty, com- 
bines also the most exquisite fragrance, has been cultivated 
in Holland to an equal extent with the Tulip, and 1,300 va- 
rieties are found in the gardens of that country. The first 
donbie Hyacinth known in Holland was raised from seed 
about the end of the seventeenth century, by Peter Voor- 
helm, from which all the fine double varieties we now pos- 
sess may be traced. So great was the value of a finedouble | 
Hyacinth formerly in Holland, that from two to ten thousand 
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