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DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS 



Saint-Simon, 121, 122, 126, 128, 



146, 147, 167 

 Sand, 5 

 Scilla alba, 45, 59 



medical uses, 59 



rubra, 59 



sibirica, 31, 43-45 



origin of, 43 



multiplication of, 43 

 Scott, Reginald, quoted, 45 

 Screens, to protect the farms, 17 

 Shoveling, 155 

 Sidney, Sir Philip, 99, 100 

 Snowdrops, 39-43, 105, 113 



legends connected with, 40 



liking for neglected soil, 39-40 



multiplication of, 41 

 Soil, 5, 40, 51, 57, 91, 108, 121, 



149, 151, 153 et seq. 

 Solfatare, the, 14 

 " Squills," 59 

 Stoves, 29 

 Swertius, 142 



Tigridias, 113 



Tradecant, 76 



Tricycles in the bulb gardens, 11 



" Trompetts," 75 



Tuberoses, 113 



Tulipa Gesneriana, 96 



Gesneriana spathulata, 98 



kaufmanniana, 92 



turcica, 95 

 Tulips, 83-103, 113, 161 



Bizarres, 94 



Bybloomens, 94 



Calif ornian, 17 



Ohimney Sweep, 89 



Darwin, 100 



disease in, 92 



Dora, 85 



Tulips, Due van Tholl, 91, 96, 102 

 feathered, 94 

 " Flamed," 94 

 gambling in, 169 

 Gesneriana spathulata, 85 

 high prices paid for, 84, 85, 86 

 Louis the XVI., 84 

 manuring the ground, 91 

 new varieties from seed, 92 

 origin of; 96-100 

 Painted Lady, 89 

 Parrot, 95 

 protection from mice and other 



vermin, 90 

 protection of bulbs by straw, 91 

 Rose, 94 



Semper Augustus, 84, 169, 170 

 Seventeenth-century mania for, 



168 et seq. 

 storing the bulbs in the barns, 



106 

 the " breaking " of seedlings, 93 

 The Citadel of Antwerp, 85 

 variegated, 84 

 wild, 100 

 Yellow Fool's Coat, 95 



Vallotas, 115 

 Van Zomped, 159 

 Vegetables, 9, 91, 110 

 "Venice of the North," the, 5 

 Voorhelm, George, 136, 142, 157, 



167 

 Voorhelm, Pierre, 142 



Wages, 106 



Walcheren, 155 



West Cappel, 155 



Women, employment of, 106, 110 



Ymuenden, 8 



Prlnledby R. & R. Clakk, LlMITfc-D, Edinburgh. 



