THE HYACINTH. 
375 
s. d. 8. d. 
Gloria Florum Supreme, splendid pink 
eye 3 6 to 4 6 
Grand Monarch de France .... 9 10 
Hooft, pink eye 9 10 
La Virginite, new, excellent .... 6 09 
Miss Kitty, fine 10 13 
Non plus Ultra, excellent 9 10 
Staten-General, fine 3 3 6 
Virgo, fine 06 09 
Double Yellow. 
Due de Berry, fine 2 6 to 3 
Gloria Florum, good 13 16 
Heroine, one of the prettiest in cultivation 16 2 
Le Grandeur, large flowers, fine ... 8 36 
Lady Sale, new and fine 16 2 
Ophir d'Or, good ..06 09 
Pure d'Or, excellent 2 6 3 
All the foregoing are double, and for the 
most part show flowers ; some are mentioned 
for the splendour of their individual flowers, 
others for the noble truss they form, others 
again for their extraordinary colours ; but 
numerous as they seem, they form but a very 
small portion of the whole that are found in 
Dutch catalogues. We have given the names 
without regard to price, which is governed 
rather by the scarcity of a variety, than by 
the actual qualities. If, for instance, a flower 
like Grootvorst, which has been out many 
years, and is as plentiful as blackberries, were 
put by one dealer at one penny more than 
would pay a reasonable price for the trouble 
of growing it, other cultivators would put 
them down, and the dearer one would have 
no sale ; but while a flower is scarce, no one 
is willing to part with it at less than a given 
price, depending entirely on its scarcity. If 
Lourens Coster was so grand an improvement 
when it was first raised as to sell for 1600 
guilders, in five years there would be, perhaps, 
a hundred roots, each of which must then be 
worth more than sixteen guilders, to bring the 
purchase home again ; in another year, perhaps 
they would be doubled in number, and some- 
thing towards halved in price. This explains 
the difference in price of hyacinths, as well as 
anything else. Grootvorst is as good, except 
colour perhaps, as any in cultivation. 
We have thus gone through the double 
varieties, which are for the most part great 
favourites. We now come to the single, 
which are beautiful in their way, and form 
trusses as handsome as the best of the double; 
in many cases, the flowers are much more 
numerous and closer together ; and we think 
they are decidedly more distinct and brilliant 
in colour than most of the double ones. 
Dark Blue Single. 
s. d. s. d. 
Auriculas, new and beautiful . . from 2 6 to 3 
Campra, fine 06 09 
Cceur Blanc, good 9 10 
Emelius, beautiful trusses 6 9 
Emiens, a good old favourite ... 4 06 
to 6 
1 
9 to 1 
6 4 
Single Ordinary Bed. 
Bouquet Royal, fine old flower ... 
Duchesse de Richmond, new and fine . 
Fanny Kemble, fine ....... 
Grande Pyramide, fine truss .... 
Johanna Grey, neat flower .... 
L'Imposante, nearly orange .... 
Lupolow, new, fine trusses 
Madame Hodshon, fine 1 
Poniatowski, fine, early, large truss . 
Queen Victoire, splendid close truss of 
red 15 
Vivante de Dame, new and fine ... 
Single Rose Colour. 
Anna Powlona, beautiful large flower . 2 
Johanna Christina, very pretty ... 
La Dame du Lac, very fine .... 
Lord Wellington, excellent .... 
Miss Ainsworth, new and splendid . . 2 
Single White. 
Angelique, new 3 
Anna Christina, very fine, new ... 
Emiens, new, excellent 
Grande Vidette, very large pips . . 
Kroonprins der Nederlanden, new and 
fine 1 
4 toO 
20 
9 1 
0to2 
4 
9 1 
6 
6 3 
to 3 
9 1 
6 
9 1 
8. d. 8. 
Franklin, new and fine 1 to 1 
Grand Lilac, very fine 9 1 
Lord Graham, new and good, very large 9 1 
Nimrod, a great favourite 6 
Staten-General, an old favourite ..06 
Single Clear Porcelain Blue. 
Bleu Agatha, new and fine . . . . 6 to 
Count of Nassau, an extra fine new flower 9 1 
Grand Vidette, fine large individual 
flowers 1 
Iris, very new and very neat .... 
L'Unique, singular colour, dark lilac . 1 
Nonpareil, excellent flower .... 
Orondates, very noble flower .... 
Porcelaine Sceptre, fine 
Robinson, fine bright marbled ... 
Voltaire, deservedly a great favourite . 
Single Black and Blue. 
Abd-el-Kader, a fine flower .... 5 
Asterius, fine 1 
Georgius Primus, new, excellent flower, 
with white eye 16 20 
Incomparable, fine 10 13 
L'Ami de Cceur, fine dwarf, close truss 3 6 
Prince Albert of Prussia, fine, dark and 
indigo 10 16 
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, new and 
fine 9 10 
Quentin Durward, fine indigo ... 6 09 
William the First, extra fine indigo .09 10 
Zoraide, fine 06 09 
Single Dark Red. 
Appelius, excellent flower 
Cerise, excellent large individual flowers 3 
Cochenille, good flower 
Cornelia Maria, new, fine ball ... 
Homerus, early and fine 
L'Eclair, a very taking variety ... 
L'Ami de Coeur 
Lina, quite new, large truss .... 1 
Mezzofanti, both new and large ... 1 
Prosper Alpini, very deep bright red, 
new 2 
Rosalia, new and fine 
Satella, large, new, splendid flower . . 1 
