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L. An Account and Description of the Species and most 

 remarkable Varieties of Spri?ig Crocuses, cultivated in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society. By Joseph 

 Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. $c. Secretary. 



Read January 6, 1829. 



Hardy bulbous plants have always been a particular object 

 of my attention ; nearly thirty years ago I began to form that 

 Collection of them, which on the establishment of the late 

 Nursery Garden of the Horticultural Society at Kensington 

 in 1818, 1 had the pleasure of presenting to the Society entire. 

 Part of it consisted of a very extensive assortment of Spring 

 Crocuses ; these I had obtained from various quarters, many 

 from Holland, several from seed, others from the public Nur- 

 series and private Gardens in the neighbourhood of London, 

 and for some of the most interesting, I was indebted to my 

 late valued and lamented friend Mr. George Anderson, 

 whose rich collection in his garden at East Ham, in Essex, 

 was a never-failing source of liberal supply to every curious 

 Collector. From Mr. Richard Williams, of Turnham- 

 Green, I received also several of much excellence ; he has 

 long been a diligent cultivator of Crocuses, and has been 

 fortunate in obtaining from seed, some of the most beautiful 

 of the varieties of C. vernus which exist. 



Both before and since the transfer of the plants of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society from Kensington to the Garden at Chiswick, 

 some additions have been made to the collection of Crocuses. 



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