HYACINTHS. 
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or difappointed. He may think himfelf 
fortunate, if one half of the plants that 
firft appeared, are in exiftence at this 
period; and if he can at laft find one 
flower in five hundred deferving a name 
or place in a curious colleflion, he may 
reft perfeftly content, and be aflured that 
he has fared as well as could reafonably 
be expe&ed, and better than many who 
have bellowed equal attention on the 
fubjech - 
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A Defcription of the Properties of a Fine 
Double Hyacinth. 
THE ftem fhould be ftrong, tall, and 
ere£l, fupporting numerous large bells, 
each fufpended by a Ihort and ftrong 
Peduncle, or foot-ftalk, in a horizontal 
pofition, fo that the whole may have a 
compa£l pyramidal form, with the crown, 
or uppermoft bell, perfeflly ere6l. 
The 
