Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Garden and Farm Topics
The Hyacinth is placed first in the list of bulbs, as it certainly deserves to be. Its easy culture, both in-doors and out its immense variety of double and Single ?owers, embracing nearly every shade of color and its delicious fragrance, all combine to make it pre-eminent above all other bulbs, if not above all other families of plants, the Rose excepted. It was first introduced into England in I 596. Gerarde, in his Herbal, published near the end of the sixteenth century, describes four kinds, the Single and the double blue, the purple, and the violet; and John Parkinson, writing in 1629, describes eight kinds, among which, by this time, white and red colors had appeared.
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