CHAP. VIII.] 
HYACINTHS. 
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and the bulbs are put into drawers or boxes, 
divided into compartments so as to keep the 
named sorts apart, till the season arrives for 
replanting, which is the last week of October 
or the first of November. 
Mr. Groom, of Walworth, is the principal 
tulip-grower in the neighbourhood of Lon¬ 
don, and he has an exhibition of them of 
extraordinary brilliancy and beauty every 
May. 
Hyacinths are perhaps the most beautiful 
of all flowers, and when grown in a bed like 
tulips, they are almost equally brilliant in 
effect. Mr. Corsten, a Dutch florist, residing 
at a place he has called Hyacinth Villa, at 
Shepherd’s Bush, has an exhibition of this kind 
every April, and I have seldom seen any thing 
more striking. Under a tent nearly two 
hundred feet long, and thirty feet wide, are 
two beds each about one hundred and fifty 
feet long, divided by a walk covered with 
matting in the centre, and surrounded by a 
similar walk, with seats at each end of the 
tent. In these beds are above three thou¬ 
sand hyacinths, the colours arranged so as to 
form diagonal lines, and the whole presenting 
