HYACINTHS 
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HYACINTHS. 
CULTURE. 
The bulbs should be potted in soil composed of equal parts of cow manure, good loam, and 
river sand. This compost should be prepared in April or May, and afterwards turned over two or 
three times. If this cannot be had, the soil which has been used in a hothouse for growing 
Cucumbers, Tomatoes, etc., is a good substitute, and is superior to freshly-made soil. 
Inunediately after potting, which may be done from September to December, place out of doors 
on a bed of ashes, and cover the pots with six inches of the same material, or cocoa fibre is preferable ; 
there let the pots remain tUl full of roots, which will usually be about six or eight weeks. If very 
early flowers are required, pot in September, and when sufficiently rooted force gently, and give 
abnndance of water ; but if large finely developed trusses and rich colours are preferred to very early 
flowers, the Hyacinth must not be forced, but when removed indoors should be placed on the shelf of 
a greenhouse, or in a cold frame, close to the glass, always in the most genial and sunniest situation 
at command, and the plants allowed to develop their flowers gradually and naturally, giving water 
regularly and freely, as it is well known to ciiltivators that failiu’es, for the most part, arise from 
allowing the soil to become dry, when the rootlets are in consequence injured. Abundance of air is 
necessary, but a dry atmosphere and a draughty situation should be sedulously avoided. 
If the Hyacinth is cultivated in glasses, the base of the bulb should just touch the water, and a 
little charcoal should be placed in the glass to keep the water sweet. The glasses, if possible, should 
be kept in a room without a fire, or better still in a greenhouse. 
12 Choice Hyacinths for Exhibition, 10s. 
12 Extra choice Hyacinths for Exhibition, 15s. 
Collections of choice named Hyacinths for Pots or 
Giasses. 
* 
s, 
d. 
s. 
d. 
100 extra choice, by name 
70 
0 
50 choice, by name 
... 30 
0 
100 choice ,, 
60 
0 
25 extra choice, by 
name 1 7 
6 
50 extra choice ,, 
35 
0 
25 choice 
„ 15 
0 
