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lover of those flowers as Sir Thomas Hanmer was a 
member. He was one of those who devoted much time 
to the culture of that flower, when the tulip mania was 
at its height, and raised new varieties, which were known 
by his name, “ the agate Hanmer.” In 1703 the list of 
bulbs purchased is carefully noted. There were “ 200 
‘junquiles’ at 6s. a hundred; for 200 tulips at 5s. a 
hundred ; for 100 yellow Dutch crocus, for 50 Armatha- 
galum.” The spelling of “junquiles” is much more 
correct than our modern “jonquil,” and all the old 
writers would have written it so. Parkinson, in 1629, 
describes them as “ Narcissus juncifolius ” or the “ Jun- 
quilia or Rush DafFodill ” ; but “ Ornithogalum ” was too 
much for the Temple scribe. The “ Ornithogalum ” or 
“ Starre of Bethlehem,” and probably one of the rarer 
varieties, must be meant by “ Armathagalum.” The 
Arabian variety was then “ nursed in gardens,” but it 
should be “ housed all the winter, that so it may bee 
defended from the frosts,” wrote Parkinson, and sadly 
admitted that the two roots sent to him “ out of Spain ” 
had “ prospered not ” “ for want of knowledge ” of this 
“ rule.” There was also the “ Starre flower of iEthio- 
pia,” which “ was gathered by some Hollanders on the 
West side of the Cape of Good Hope” ; and this is more 
likely to have been the variety bought for the Temple 
with the other Dutch bulbs. Among the other pur¬ 
chases were various shrubs, on which the topiary art was 
then commonly practised. There were “15 yew trees 
for the Great Garden in pots, ... 4 box trees for the 
grass plots, . . . 12 striped ‘ fillerayes ’ ”—this latter being 
variegated phillyreas (most likely angustifolia ), which were 
largely used for cutting into quaint shapes. Another 
account is for “ 28 standard laurels, 4 * perimic ’ (laurels), 
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