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TULIPS. 
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one plain colour, on a white or yellow 
bottom : no perfon fhould make the 
attempt who is not poffefled of a great 
fund of patience and perfeverance, as the 
period of procuring finely broken Tulips 
from breeders is very uncertain, fo much 
fo that it is not unufual to wait ten or 
twenty years without the defired fuccefs, 
although it fometimes happens fortu¬ 
nately to take place the firft, fecond, or 
third year of their blooming; and where 
the Colleflion of breeders is numerous, 
there may be reafonable expeflations of 
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procuring one or two valuable new 
flowers annually, but not otherwife: a 
poor dry foil is moft likely to produce 
thefe effefts; and a fingle inftance has 
occurred, where forty breeders out of 
fifty became broken, or variegated, in one 
feafon, in a fituation of this defcription. 
K 
New 
