INDEX 



Achimenes, 113 

 Aconite, Winter, 31, 43 



efficacy against poison, 43 

 Aconites, 105 

 Alkmaar, 86, 109, 170 

 Alliums, 45 

 Alphen, 154 

 Amaryllis, 113 

 Amstelveen, 154 

 Amsterdam, 4, 5, 6, 170 



Great Canal of, 3 

 Anemone coronaria, 68, 71 

 Anemones, 23, 70 



legendary origin of, 70 



Star, 70 

 April in the bulb gardens, 9, 78, 



83, 161 

 Arums, 113 



Barns, bulb, 5, 11, 52, 104-106, 

 111-113, 164 



orderliness of, 105 



protection from mice and fire, 

 111 



protection from frost, 112 

 Begonias, 73, 113 



protection against frost, 74, 112 



growing from seed, 74 

 Bicycles in the bulb gardens, 11 

 Bulb cleaning, 106, 107, HO 

 Busbecq, 98, 100 

 Bride, The, 15 



Calochortus, 17, 113 



Caunas, 113 



Catalogues, 15, 116, 117 

 Cleanliness, 5, 107 

 Clusius, 59, 63, 71, 75, 76 

 Colchicums, 34 

 Collectors, bulb, 44, 113 

 "Conquests," 141 et sea., 146, 



166 

 Co-operation among bulb growei'S, 



123 



Crinums, 113 

 Crocus sativus, 34 

 Crocuses, 32-39, 113, 161 



ancestry of, 33, 35 



legends connected with, 35, 36 



saffron, 34-39 



uses of, 36, 37 

 Culpeper, 38, 3!) 



Daffodils, 74-82 



Gerranfs, 76 



Great Rose, 76 



Parkinson's, 76 



Strange Sea, 76 



White Sea Bastard, 76 



Wilmers double, 76 

 Dahlias, protection from frost, 



112 



Darry (or Derry), 153, 161 

 De Koning's History of Haarlem, 



168 

 De Koning's Tafereel der Stad 



Haarlem, 171 

 Derry (or Darry), 153, 161 



173 



