INDEX

Achimenes, 113

Aconite, Winter, 31, 43

efficacy against poison, 43

Aconites, 105

Alkmaar, 86, 109, 170

Alliums, 45

Alphen, 154

Amaryllis, 113

Amstelveen, 154

Amsterdam, 4, 5, 6, 170

Great Canal of, 3

Anemone coronaria, 68, 71

Anemones, 23, 70

legendary origin of, 70

Star, 70

April in the bulb gardens, 9, 78, 83, 161

Arums, 113

Barns, bulb, 5, 11, 52, 104-106, 111-113, 164

orderliness of, 105

protection from mice and fire, 111

protection from frost, 112

Begonias, 73, 113

protection against frost, 74, 112

growing from seed, 74

Bicycles in the bulb gardens, 11

Bulb cleaning, 106, 107, 110

Busbecq, 98, 100

Bride, The, 15

Calochortus, 17, 113

Cannas, 113

Catalogues, 15, 116, 117

Cleanliness, 5, 107

Clusius, 59, 63, 71, 75, 76

Colchicums, 34

Collectors, bulb, 44, 113

“Conquests,” 141 et seq., 146, 166

Co-operation among bulb growers, 123

Crinums, 113

Crocus sativus, 34

Crocuses, 32-39, 113, 161

ancestry of, 33, 35

legends connected with, 35, 36

saffron, 34-39

uses of, 36, 37

Culpeper, 38, 39

Daffodils, 74-82

Gerrard’s, 76

Great Rose, 76

Parkinson’s, 76

Strange Sea, 76

White Sea Bastard, 76

Wilmer’s double, 76

Dahlias, protection from frost, 112

Darry (or Derry), 153, 161

De Koning’s History of Haarlem, 168

De Koning’s Tafereel der Stad Haarlem, 171

Derry (or Darry), 153, 161

Enkhuizen, 170

Eranthis hyemalis, 43

“Fair Maids of February,” the, 40

“Fleur-de-lys,” the, 60

“Flower-de-luce,” the, 60

Flowerdeluce, Great Turkey, 65

Fritillarias, 71-73, 161

Aurea, 73

Crown Imperial, 71, 161

Recurva, 73

Snake’s-head, 73

Galen, 59

Gerard, 16, 33, 38, 39

Gesner, Conrad, 99, 100

Gladioli, 10, 15, 16, 115

ancestry of, 33

protection from frost, 112

Glove-gardeners, 89

Gloxinias, 113

Great Turkey Flowerdeluce, 65, 67

Haarlem, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 19, 20, 33, 50, 64, 83, 91, 92, 109, 110, 121-167, 168-172

Hakluyt quoted, 34

Hedges, 9, 17

Hepaticas, 70

Hille, 33

Hillegom, 44

Hoorn, 170

Houses in Holland, 9, 25

Hyacinths, 17-19, 47-59, 91, 113

Alcibiades, 149

Beau-regard, 149

bees and, Saint-Simon’s theory, 146

bulbs, impossibility of reserving for second year, 128

cleaning the bulbs, 164

culture at Haarlem in the eighteenth century, 121-167

cutting the, 18, 19, 57

disease in, 56, 127, 134, 164

experiments with, 147

Flavo superbe, 137

François Ist, 126, 136, 148

Gloria Florum Suprema, 125, 149

Gloria Mundi, 126, 143, 171

grape, 58

Heroine, 137

high prices paid for, 142

Jacques, 50

La Comète, 137

La Perruque, 137

Le Comte de Provence, 126

legends connected with, 47, 48, 124

Le Roi de la Grande Bretagne, 143

lifting the bulbs, 149

manuring the ground, 91

Marie, 143

Marquise de Bonnac, 148

methods of producing bulbs, 51

Mine d’Or, 126

Og Roi de Basan, 126, 137, 148

Ophir, 172

Orientalis, 123

organs of reproduction, 132, 144 et seq.

origin of, 49, 123

Passe non plus ultra, 148, 171

Praal Sieraad, 171

preparation of soil, 151, 156 et seq.

propagation of, 126, 132, 136 et seq.

protection of bulbs, 56, 131, 158, 162

Rex Rubrorum, 126

Rien ne me Surpasse, 148

Saturne, 137

Sceptre of David, 121

selection and cultivation, 50

sowing seed, 138 et seq.

Tempel Salomons, 171

Theatre-Italien, 148

the four classes of, 125

the right soil for, 121, 149

use of cow manure, 152, 157

use of frames, 158

use of tents, 159

wild, 124

wood, 48, 58

Hyacinthus, 47-49, 124

candicans, 58

orientalis, 49, 58

Hymerocallis, protection from frost, 112

“Iohnquills,” 75, 161

Iris anglica, 62

Bakeriana, 64

hispanica, 14

histroides, 64

reticulata, 64

susiana, 17, 65, 66, 67

xiphion, 60

Irises, 13, 17, 47, 48, 49, 60-67, 161

legends connected with, 48

new varieties from seed, 62

purple, 15

remedial uses of, 60

Spanish, 60, 63

Ixia viridiflora, 16

Ixias, green, 16

Jonquils, 75, 161

July in the bulb gardens, 78

June in the bulb gardens, 10, 19-24

Kniphofias, 115

Land, preparation of new, 161

value of, 13, 33, 44, 108

Language of Flowers, the, 38, 69, 97

Leyden, 64, 110, 154, 170

Lilies, 161

Torch, 114

Lily tribe, the, 10

Manure, the use of, 40, 56, 91, 152, 157

March in the bulb gardens, 64, 78

May in the bulb gardens, 9, 78, 161

“Mevrouw,” 8, 10, 17

Narcissi, 74-82, 161

Barri, 78

Emperor, 78

Empress, 78

Golden Spur, 78

Grandee, 78

Henry Irving, 78

legends connected with, 79-81

Poeticus, 78, 79

polyanthus, 77-79

protection from cold, 77

Red, 77

Sir Watkin, 88

Van-Sion, 75

Will Scarlet, 77

Narcissus, 79, 80

Clusii, 75

maximus, 75

Tazetta, 78

Neatness on the farms, 5, 107

Onions, 45

Orderliness, 5, 105, 112

Over-covering the bulbs, danger of, 31

Overween, 159

Parasites, 31

Parkinson, 16, 33, 41, 45, 49, 58, 59, 76, 77, 87

quoted, 16, 50, 65, 71, 82, 93, 95

Pollarding, 17

Ranunculus, 10, 23, 68-70

asiaticus, 68

Roads, state of the, 12, 13

Robinio of Paris, 33

Robinson, 94, 96

Rubbish-heaps, absence of, 5

Saffron growing, 34

Saint-Simon, 121, 122, 126, 128, 146, 147, 167

Sand, 5

Scilla alba, 45, 59

medical uses, 59

multiplication of, 43

origin of, 43

rubra, 59

sibirica, 31, 43-45

Scott, Reginald, quoted, 45

Screens, to protect the farms, 17

Sheveling, 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

Californian, 17

Chimney Sweep, 89

Darwin, 100

disease in, 92

Dora, 85

Duc 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, 3

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

Transcriber’s note:

Page 39, ‘epedemcal’ changed to ‘epidemical,’ “thing in epidemical diseases”

Page 106, comma changed to full stop, “store, dangling. And beside them”

Page 146, ‘hothouses’ changed to ‘hot-houses,’ “hyacinths grown in hot-houses,”

Page 149, ‘they’ changed to ‘the,’ “the effort they make to force”

Page 157, ‘two-thirds’ changed to ‘two-sixths,’ “three-sixths of cow-manure, two-sixths of sand, and one-sixth of leaf-mould”

Page 157, ‘Alknaar’ changed to ‘Alkmaar,’ “Leyden, Amsterdam, Alkmaar,”

Page 174, comma struck following ‘25,’ “Houses in Holland, 9, 25”

Page 176, sub-entries for ‘Scilla alba’ entry re-ordered alphabetically