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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS puschkinia. 



Single violet Hyacinths 



Adeline Patti, Arnold Prinsen, Charles 

 Dickens, Haydn, Jeschko, L'Amie dm 

 Coeur, L'Honn. d'Overveen, L' Unique, 

 Mgr. van Vree, Pearl, Si/)- Edwin Land- 

 seer, Sir William Mansfield, Tollens. 



Single yellow Hyacinths 



AKda Jacoba, Anna Ca/rolina, Bird 

 of Paradise, Due de Malalcoff, Fleur d'Or, 

 Herman, Heroine, Ida, King of the 

 Yellows, Konimg van Holland, La Citro- 

 niere. La grande Jaune, La Pluie d'Or, 

 L'Or d'AustraUe, OhiKsque, Optimist, 

 Oranje Boven, Sonora, Victor Hugo, 

 Yellow Hammer. 



Double red Hyacinths 



Alida Catharina, Baron vanPallandt, 

 Bouquet Boyal, Bouquet tendre, Czar 

 Nicolas, Frederick the Great, Grootvorst, 

 Koh-i-noor, La Belle Alliance, Le grand 

 Concurrent, L'Esperance, Lieutenant 

 Waghorn, Lord Wellington, Louis Napo- 

 leon, Marie Louise, Marie de Medicis, 

 Noble par Merite, Panorama, Perruque 

 royale. Princess Alexandra, Princesse 

 royale,Prince d'Orange, Begina Victoria, 

 Bex Bubrorum, Sams Souci, Sir Joseph 

 Paxton, Sir Walter Scott, Susanna 

 Maria. 



Double white Hyacinths 



Anna Maria, Blanchard, Bouquet 

 Boyal, Duo de Berry, Luchesse de Bed- 

 ford, Flevo, Grand Monarque de France, 

 Grand Vainqueur, Grootvorstin,Hiro'ine, 

 Isabella, Jenny Lind, La Deesse, La 

 Grandesse, La Tour d'Auvergne, La 

 Virginia, Lord Anson, Madame de Stael, 

 Miss Ketty, Miss Nightingale, Nonplus 

 ultra. Prince of Waterloo, Sceptre d'Or, 

 Triumph Blandine, Venus, Violet 

 Superbe, Virgo. 



Double blue Hyacinths 



A la mode, Albion, Belle Mode, Blohs- 

 berg, Bride of La,m,mermoor, Comte de 

 St. Priest, Charles Crown Prince of 

 Sweden, Charles Lichens, Luc de Nor- 

 mandie. Delicate, Envoye, Garrich, 

 General Antimk, Globe terrestre, Grande 

 Vedette, Graaf Floris, Keizer Alexander, 

 King of the Nederlands, King of Wur- 

 temberg, Laurens Koster, Lord Nelson, 

 Lord Baglan, Lord Wellington, Louise 

 Philippe, Mad. Marmout, Migiion de 

 Dryfhout, Minister van Beenen, Mxirillo, 



Marlines, Othello, Pasquin, Passetout, 

 Paarlboot, Prins Albert, Prince Fred- 

 erick, ProUfera Monstrosa, Prince of 

 Saxen Weimar, Bembrandt, Bichard 

 Steele, Bobert Burns, Budolphus, Shake- 

 speare, Sir John Franklin, Sir Bobert 

 Peel, Tubalcadn, Van Speyk, Von 

 Siebold. 



Double yellow and orange Hyacinths 



Berry d'Or, Bouquet d'Orange, 

 Croesus, General Kohler, General Gordon, 

 Goethe, Heroine, Jaune Supreme, La Belle 

 Souffre, La Grandeur, L'Or du Perou^ 

 L'Or Vegetal, Louise d'Or, Minerva, 

 Ophir d'Or, Piet Hein, Sovereign, Sun- 

 flower, Van Speyk, William the Third. 



H. amethystinus {Spanish Hyacinth). 

 A pretty species from S.W. Europe, with 

 narrow linear leaves. The scapes, 4^12 

 in. high, are produced in May and June, 

 having loose spikes of bright blue, droop- 

 ing or nodding flowers. 



Culture and Propagation. — To see 

 this species to the best advantage it should 

 be grown in large masses of a hundred or 

 more, and may be left undisturbed for 3 

 or 4 years. There is a white-flowered 

 form named albus. 



H. azureus. — This early - flowering 

 species is a native of Asia Minor, and has 

 white bulbs about 1 in. in diameter, from 

 which numerous offsets are produced. 

 The erect strap-shaped glaucous leaves, 

 4-6 in. long, are deeply channelled down 

 the face. Early in February the beautiful 

 sky-blue bell-shaped flowers are produced 

 in dense conical heads with a thickened 

 blue axis, the scape being shorter than 

 the leaves, the whole somewhat resem- 

 bling one of the Grape Hyacinths (Mus- 

 cari). Owing to its early - flowering 

 character, the flowers of this species are 

 often injured by frosts, but if protected 

 with a handlight they remain beautiful 

 and fresh for a long time. 



Other species are ciliatus,fastigiatus, 

 leucophcEus, orientaVis (type), romanus, 

 and webbianus, met with sometimes in 

 botanic gardens. 



Culture dc. as above. 



PUSCHKINIA.— A small genus of 

 plants with tunicated bulbs, few radical 

 leaves, the first often oblong, the others 

 linear, and blue flowers in loose racemes, 

 or sometimes solitary on the simple leaf- 

 less scape. Perianth tube short bell- 



