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£70 NATURAL HISTORY, 
hifhed with fmall leaves, growing in pairs, without 
any footftalk. Upon the top of the ftem is the flower 
compofed of feveral green, upright leaves that appear 
to grow from the germ of another flower, formed of | 
yellow inverted leaves, in a figure fomewhat refemb- ~ 
ling a turban: Amid thefe leaves are feen ftamina, 
with white anthera, which hang down ina graceful — 
manner. The anthera refemble dewdrops, falling ~ 
from the filaments of the ftamina. The crown impe- 
rial is propagated trom its bulbs, which fhould be 
taken out of their mould in June, well cleaned, and 
carefully ftored till September ; when they fhould be 
replanted. It bloffoms chiefly in March and April: 
During thefe months, its fingular beauty, and grace- 
ful dignity, form one of the chief ornaments of our 
mot acces gardens. i ' ar hy einai tee’ 
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HYACINTH. 
Nexr to thefe follows the hyacinth, with all its 
virgin beauties ‘There are fo many forts of them, 
and fo different in colour, that nature feems to have 
taken pleafure in forming them, and rendering them 
more admirable by variety. As we are noticing the 
more early flowers, we have to obferve, that the 
| winter and fpring hyacinth is blue, and odoriferous. 
it is little, round, and of a fingle colour. Hyacinths, 
like many other flowers, are multiplied by feed. The 
bulbs that are produced from the feeds, bear no 
flowers until the fourth year. The greateft part of 
hyacinths delight in places that are expofed to the 
jun, and apart from other flowers. Like animals that 
herd; together in flocks, hyacinths are, by nature, 
mot adapted to grow in clufters, by themfelyes. ~~” 

