A Year's Culture of the Hyacinth. 8 1 



We may state here of Messrs. Whitley and Osborn's Cata- 

 log?ie,]\xst pubhshed, that it contains the names, correctly spelt 

 and accented, and with the same authorities as in our Arboretum 

 Britannicum^ of above 1400 species and varieties; of every one 

 of which, without a single exception, they have plants in their 

 nursery, or had at the time the Catalogue was published. So 

 particular are Messrs. Whitley and Osborn in this respect, that 

 they have not included in their list about fifty kinds, the plants 

 of which they procured from other nurseries. Of these 1400 

 kinds Messrs. Whitley and Osborn can send out, this season, 

 1300 sorts for the sum of 160Z. Next year the collection will be 

 increased by the addition of all the new species and good varieties 

 that can be got; and the whole will be assiduously propagated, 

 so as to produce healthy vigorous young plants for sale. 



In directing attention to Messrs. Whitley and Osborn's Cata- 

 logue, we think we are doing a service both to nurserymen and 

 country gentlemen ; for from this Catalogue both can select as 

 complete a collection of plants as can be desired, and with 

 names which, we state without hesitation, are more correctly 

 applied than those to be found in any other nursery whatever. 

 In all probability there are various nurseries where some of the 

 plants may be sold as cheap as in the Fulham Nursery ; but 

 assuredly we do not know of one, where so complete and so 

 correctly named a collection is to be pi'ocured at so low a price. 

 As we have been partly the means of inducing Messrs. Whitley 

 and Osborn to adopt the nomenclature of our Arb. Brit., we 

 feel bound strongly to recommend them, and their Catalogue of 

 Trees and Shrubs, to the public. 



Bayswater, Jan. 1840. 



Art. VI. A Years Culture of the Hyacinth, as practised at Haarlem 

 in Holland, beginning txiith the Season for Planting, in October. 



(Translated from the Verhandlungen des Vereins," &c., of Frankfort on the 

 Maine. By J. L.) 



October. — The Dutch method of planting bulbs is of all 

 methods the best. The whole piece of ground allotted for them 

 is divided into beds. The first bed is dug from 3 to 5 inches 

 deep (according to the strength or kind of bulb to be planted), 

 and this quantity of earth that is dug out is conveyed to the 

 further side of the last bed in the piece of ground. The bed 

 which has had this earth taken from it is equally raked, and 

 divided into rows, when the bulbs are placed gently upon it. 

 The second bed is then dug out in like manner, and the earth 

 which is taken from it is used for covering the bulbs in the first 

 bed ; and in this manner they proceed to the last bed, which is 

 covered with the earth of the first bed, which was deposited 



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