. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. HYACINTHUS HYACINTHUS 781 cinth is extensively grown in Holland for export to this and other countries, and consequently is commonly known as the Dutch Hyacinth. Tlie Roman Hyacinth (Figs. 1109-10) is var. Albulus, Baker (U. lilbnhis, Jord. S. liomAnuSy Hort., not Linn.), is smaller and slenderer, Ivs. narrower
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. HYACINTHUS HYACINTHUS 781 cinth is extensively grown in Holland for export to this and other countries, and consequently is commonly known as the Dutch Hyacinth. Tlie Roman Hyacinth (Figs. 1109-10) is var. Albulus, Baker (U. lilbnhis, Jord. S. liomAnuSy Hort., not Linn.), is smaller and slenderer, Ivs. narrower, very erect, lis. fewer, earlier, white or blush, the tube cylindrical and .scarcely ventricose, the segments narrower and usually proportionately sliorter. Central France, and perhaps in the Mediterranean re- gion. Much used for early bloom. The Hyacinth has been cultivated for some centuries, and it shared some of the early popularity of the tulip in the Netherlands. E. orienialis is wild in Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Dalmatia. For a picture of a Plyacinth bulb, .see Fig. 288, Vol. I. Other species are sometimes seen in the gardens of the curious, particularly H. amethystinus, Ijinn., Spain, France ( 2125. Uu. 47, p. 147|, and H. azureus, Baker ( C822. .HI. 21:1'.»1, var. giguiitcus), Mediterranean region. The former is slender and grace- ful, with light blue fls. in short racemes, standing nearly or quite }i ft. high : fls. small, nodding, bell-shaped, with short teeth-like segments. There is a white-fid. foim. Good for rockeries. Hardy in the njiddle states. The latter species is by some considered to be a form of if. cilialns, Cj'rill. Looks like a (irape Hya- I'iuth (or Jtuscari): 4-8 in. tall, with strongly canalicu- late, glaucous Ivs.: fls. blue, fragrant, in a dense spike 1 in. long, tiibular, with small teeth. Distinguished from the genus Muscari by the perianth segments being tlariug instead of incurved. Hardy in middle states. H. fastigiatus, Bert
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