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- and fifty florins, (¥ 60,) and the highest priced Lily three hundred 
florins, (§ 120.) Tulips are divided into early and late blowers ; 
the former begin blooming about the 15th of April, and are followed 
by the latter 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. 
3 HYACINTHS—Ayacinthus orientalis. 
This favourite flower, which, with its great beauty, combines 
also the most exquisite fragrance, has been cultivated in Holland 
to an equal extent with the Tulip, and 1,300 varieties are found 
in the gardens of that country. The first double Hyacinth known 
in Holiand was raised from seed about the end of the seventeenth. 
century, by Peter Voorhelm, from which all the fine double varieties 
Wwe now possess may be traced. So great was the value of a fine 
double Hyacinth formerly in Holland, that from two- to ten thou- 
sand florins were given for a single root; and Mr. Dutens mentions, 
that in his travels, in that country; 1771, he saw ten thousand 
florins ($ 4,000) refused fora single Bulb. So extensive has their 
cultivation, however, now become, that many acres are occupied 
by individuals solely for that purpose, and many hundred thousand 
roots are annually exported to other countries ; and the prices have 
been so reduced, that no Hyacinths are now sold at more than one 
hundred florins each, and few higher than from two to five guineas, 
and by far the greater number at much less rates. Single Hyacinths 
are held in less estimation than double ones; their colours, how- 
ever, are more vivid, and their bells, though smaller, are more 
numerous; they are preferable for flowering in winter to most of 
the double ones, as they bloom two or three weeks earlier. — 
It has been supposed by many that Hyacinths, Tulips, and other 
Bulbous Flowers, are difficult of culture, and that our country being 
unfavourable to their growth, they would dwindle and decline after 
afew years’ cultivation. This is altogether a mistaken impression; 
and, if it ever occurs, must be owing to improper treatment, as no 
country in the world possesses a climate more congenial to the 
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culture of Bulbous Flowers than the middle states; for the dis-. 
advantages of great fogs and a humid atmosphere, which are so 
much complained of by the Dutch as appertaining to their climate, 
do not at all exist in our’s. The great ascendency which Holland 
has ever held in the culture of Bulbous Flowers, is the result of its 
soil, which is of peculiar formation, being a combination of marine 
sand made fresh by cultivation and bog mould ; the proper means, 
therefore, to succeed equally in their culture, is to form a soil as 
near as possible of the same component parts, which is by no means 
a difficulty task. And, in fact, after all that has been said and 
written on the particular cultivation of Bulbous Roots, we often 
see the finest flowers in gardens where little or no attention is 
paid to them; and, perhaps, there is no class of plants which 
affords us so many delights, and so richly repays us for each little — 
eare bestowed on them. 
‘The collections of Buibous Flowers has been so greatly extended » 
within these several years past, by a careful and scrutinizing s¢léc= 
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