WILLIAM BULL & SONS’ BULB CATALOGUE. 
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HYACINTHS. 
HINTS ON THE CULTURE OF THE HYACINTH. 
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 
Immediately after potting 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 eaiily flowers are required, pot m 
September, and when sufficiently rooted force gently, and give abundance 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, giving water 
regularly and freely, as it is well known to cultivators that failiures, 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, 12s. 
12 Extra choice Hyacinths for Exhibition, 15s. 
Collections of choice named 
s. d. 
100 extra choice, by name 70 O 
100 choice „ ®0 0 
50 extra choice „ 35 O 
Hyacinths for Pots or Glasses. 
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50 choice, by name 30 
25 extra choice, by name 17 
1 25 choice „ 15 
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