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few, 1 Shall infert the name of the principal or thefti, 
Which are as follow : 
1. Duke Van Toll, or 
Winter Duke. 
2. General Duke. 
3. General Brandon. 
4. Pretty Betty. 
5. Duchefs of Brancion. 
6. Lac Verine. 
7. Violet Ragans. 
8. Violet Remow, or 
Pourpre Lifle. 
9. Palto Van Leyden. . 
10. Florifante. 
si. Brandenburgh. 
3 2. Nonfuch. 
33. Admiral Crinki. 
14. General Molfwick. 
35. Paragon Cleremont. 
16. Admiral Encufen. 
37. Morillion. 
38. Nobleft. 
39. Early Perfect. 
20. Superintendent. 
Thefe are the names which have been impofed on 
thefe flowers by the florifts of the feveral countries 
where they were raifed, and by which the roots may be 
obtained from Flanders and Holland, where the flo- 
rifts are very exaCt in keeping up their lifts of thefe 
flowers complete. 
The roots of thefe early blowing Tulips fhould be 
planted the beginning of September in a warm 
border, near a wall, pale, or hedge •, becaufe if they 
are put into an open fpot of ground, their buds are 
in danger of fuffering by morning frofts in the fpring. 
The foil for thefe fhould be renewed every year, where 
people intend to have them fair. The beft foil for this 
purpofe is that which is taken from a light fandy paf- 
ture, with the turf rotted amongft it, and to this 
fhould be added a fourth part of fea fand. This mix- 
ture may be laid about ten inches deep, which will be 
fufficient for thefe roots, which need not be planted 
more than four or five inches deep at moft. The off- 
fets fhould not be planted amongft the blowing roots, 
but in a border by themfelves, where they may be 
planted pretty clofe together, efpecially if they are 
lmall •, but thefe fhould be taken up when their leaves 
decay, in the fame manner as the blowing roots, 
otherwife they would rot if the feafon fhould prove 
very wet * for thefe are not fo hardy as the late blow- 
ers, nor do they increafe half fo faft as thofe, fo that a 
greater care is required to preferve the offsets of them. 
When thefe Tulips come up in the fpring, the earth 
upon the furface of the borders fhould be gently ftir- 
red and cleared from weeds ; and as the buds appear, 
if the feafon fhould prove very fevere, it will be of 
great fervice to cover them with mats, for want of 
which many times they are blighted, and their flowers 
decay before they blow, which is often injurious to 
the roots, as is alfo the cropping of the flowers fo 
foon as they are blown ; becaufe their roots, which 
are formed new every year, are not at that time ar- 
rived to their full magnitude, and are hereby deprived 
of proper nourilhment. 
If, when thefe flowers are blown, the feafon fhould 
prove very warm, it will be proper to fhade them with 
mats, &c. in the heat of the day ; as alfo if the nights 
are frofty, they fhould be in like manner covered, 
• whereby they may be prelerved a long time in beauty ; 
but, when their flowers are decayed, and their feed- 
vefiels begin to fwell, they fhould be broken off juft at 
the top of the ftalks, becaufe if they are permitted 
to feed, it will injure the roots. 
When the leaves of thefe flowers are decayed (which 
will be before the late blowers are out of flower) 
their roots fhould be taken up, and fpread upon mats 
in a fhady place to dry after which they fhould be 
cleared from their filth, and put in a dry place where 
the vermin cannot come to them, until the feafon 
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for planting them again, being very careful to pre- 
ferve every fort feparate, that you may know how to 
difpofe of them at the time for planting them again - 
becaufe it is the better way to plant all the roots of 
each fort together (and not to intermix them, as is com- 
monly pradiled in moft other kinds of flowers ;) for 
as there are few of them which blow at the fame, time, 
fo when the feVeral roots of one fort are flattered 
through a whole border, they make but an indifferent 
appearance ; whereas, when twenty or thirty roots 
of the fame fort are placed together, they will all 
flower at the fame time, arid afford a more agreeable 
profpeCL 
There are piany curious perfons, who, in order* to pre- 
ferve their feveral kinds of Tulips, and other bul- 
bous-rooted flowers feparate, have large flat boxes 
made, which are divided into feveral parts by fmall 
partitions, each of which is numbered in the fame 
manner as the divifions of their beds ; fo that when a 
catalogue of their roots is made, and the numbers 
fixed to each fort in the beds, there is nothing more 
to do when they take up their roots, but to put every 
kind into the divifion marked with the fame number 
which was placed to each fort in the bed, which faves 
a great deal of trouble in making frefli marks every 
time the roots are taken up, and effectually anfwers 
the purpofe of preferving the kinds feparate. 
The feveral forts of thefe early blowing Tulips rife 
to different heights in their Items, fo that fcarcely 
any two of them grow to an equal height. The Duke 
Van Toll being one of the firft that appears in the 
fpring, is generally very fhort-ftalked, and fo the other 
forts, in proportion to their earlinefs, are fhorter than 
thofe which fuceeed them, and the late blowing kinds 
are all of them Confiderably longer in their Items than 
any of the Prascoces, or early blowers ; fo that when 
they are confufedly mixed together, they make a very- 
indifferent appearance. 
The late blowing Tulips are fo numerous, that, as I 
before obferved, it would be to no purpofe to attempt 
to give a catalogue of them. Thefe are generally ob- 
tained from breeders, which is a term applied to all 
fuch flowers as are produced from feeds, which are of 
one felf-colour, and have good bottoms and chives ; 
thele in time break into various beautiful ftripes, ac- 
cording to the ground of their former felf-colour, but 
this mull be entirely thrown off, otherwife they do 
not efteem a flower well broken. 
Of thefe breeders there hath been a great variety 
brought into England from Flanders of late years, 
which is the grand nurfery for moft forts of bulbous- 
rooted flowers *, but there are lbme curious perfons, 
who have lately obtained many valuable breeders 
from feed fown in England ; and doubtleis, were we 
as ihduftrious to fow the feeds of thefe flowers as the 
people of France and Flanders, we might in a few 
years have as great a variety as is to be found in any 
part of Europe ; for, although it is fix or feven years 
from the fowing before the flowers blow, yet, if af- 
ter the firft lowing there is every year a frefli parcel 
fown, when the feven years are expired, there will 
be conftantly a fuccefiion of roots to flower every year, 
which will reward the expectation, and keep up the 
fpirit of raifing ; but it is the length of time at firft, 
which deters moft people from this work. 
The manner of propagating thefe flowers from feeds is 
as follows : you fhould be careful in the choice of 
the feed, without which there can be little fuccefs ex- 
pected. The beft feed is that which is faved from 
breeders which have all the good properties before re- 
lated* for the feeds of ftriped flowers feldom produce 
any thing that is valuable. 
The beft method to obtain good feeds is to make 
choice of a parcel of fuch breeding Tulip roots as 
you would have feeds from, and place them in a fe- 
parate bed from the breeders, in a part of the garden 
where they may be fully expofed to the fun, obferv- 
ing to pla'nt them at leaft nine inches deep ; for if they 
are planted too fhallow, their Items are apt to decay- 
before their feed is perfected. 
21. Vice-roy. 
22. Maria. 
23. Aurora Van Bart. 
24. Paragon Grebberi. 
25. Galatea. 
2 6 . Marquis. 
27. Gilflen Bloemen, 
28. Alcetus. 
29. Jewel Van Haerlem. 
30. Jacht Van Delft. 
31. Goude Son. 
32. Flamboyant. 
33. Bruyd Renard. 
34. Palamedes. 
35. Apollo. , 
36. Juno. 
37. Silver-boot. 
38. Florida Voorhelm. 
39. Roy d’Efpagne. 
40. Metropolit. 
41. Konins-kroon. 
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