The Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...deep, and raised six or eight inches above the walks, formed rather convex on the surface, and may be provided with hoops and mats, to be used as circumstances require." Hyacinthus orientalis var. sceptriformis. Leaves several from the root, oblongly lanceolate, blunt at the point, hollow on the upper side, the sides curved inwards, striate at the back, of a palish green colour. Scape ox flower-stem erect, except when bent with the weight of the flowers, nearly round, smooth and glossy, producing a long raceme of flowers. Flowers very large and double, distinct from each other, not so crowded as in many varieties, of a pale bright blue, tinged with blush, and composed of numerous spreading segments, that are more or less twisted, some of them bluntish, but the greater part acute at the points, rather darkest blue at the back: outer ones broadest, becoming narrower inwards, where they are not so perfect. Stamens mostly turned into floral leaves, seldom bearing pollen. Ovarium monstrous, and the seeds apparently imperfect, or generally so. Style more or less divided and monstrous, as is also the Stigma. As it is well ascertained that the Hyacinth succeeds better in Holland than in any other country, which is chiefly owing to the soil and situation; and as the only way to succeed well with it in this country, must be to prepare the soil as much as possible like that of Holland, we think we cannot do better than give the following account from Mr. Hogg's Treatise, that was communicated to him by a friend who had been visiting that country, and received the following information from one of their native Florists on the spot. "Our soil round Haarlem is upon the whole poor and sterile, consisting of nearly two-thirds sand to one of loam, of a light brown...