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Heels : Mars, Van Speyk, # Felicitas, # L'Ami du Cceur, 

 Herstelde Vreede, Ampkion, Sappho, Cochenille. Blues : 

 * Grande Vidette, Emicans, *Nimrod, *Vulcan, Bobinson, 

 *Emilius, La plus Noire, Grand Lilac, Bolivar. 



Good Double Hyacinths. — Whites: * Vestal, Sph^era 

 Mundi, Anna Maria, Gloria riorum, Mathilda, ^Triumph 

 Blandina, * Minerva, Hermann Lange, Montesquieu, 

 Sultan Achmet. Yellows: *Ophir, Croesus, Louis d'Or, 

 Bouquet d' Orange, Jaune supreme, L'Or vegetale, Due 

 deBerri d'Or. Beds: Boerhaave, Bouquet tendre; Flos 

 sanguineus, Gloria Solis, Bex . rubrorum, *Grootvoorst, 

 "Wellington, ^Waterloo, Panorama, Madame Zootmann, 

 Honneur d' Amsterdam. Blues : Othello, # Pasquin, Boi 

 des Pays Bas, # Globe celeste, Globe terrestre, *Noir 

 veritable, Bonaparte, Alamode, Laurens Koster. — A very 

 small collection should include those marked with the 

 asterisk. 



Hyacinth, Grape — H. Muscari, or Muscari moschatum 

 — bears a small spike of almost globular dull-violet 

 flowers. Perfectly hardy, and may be left to take care 

 of itself; but hardly worth admittance into the flower- 

 garden. 



Hyacinth, Monstrous — Muscari monstrosum — does not 

 deserve the honour of a specific name, being sterile, and 

 only capable of propagation by offsets. Instead of a 

 spike of flowers, it puts forth something like a frizzled 

 wig in disorder, of a dull rosy-purple tint. Void of all 

 symmetry and purpose, it can find favour with few but 

 lovers of abortions and curiosities. 



Iris. — A large genus, comprising bulbous, tuberous, 

 and fibrous rooted species. Of the bulbous kinds, ac- 

 knowledged favourites are, the Persian iris, I. JPersica, sl 

 low plant, which in March or April sends up, on a stem 

 shorter than the leaves, a single, very powerfully sweet- 

 scented flower, washed with blue on a light ground. 

 Does better in a pot under a frame, in the same compost 

 as is used for hyacinths, than in the open ground. Is 

 propagated with difficulty either from seeds or offsets, 

 but the bulbs may be annuallv obtained of the nursery- 



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