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"Des Jacinthes, de leur anatomie Reproduction et Culture Amsterdam 1768

p. 10 near 2000 sorts

p 35 number of [illeg] or leaves vary - one sort has scarcely ever more than 3, another never has but 5 - another has regularly 8 - another almost always 7. Commonly hyacinths have 6.

p. 42 vary in the number of off-shoot bulbs

p 43 "néanmoins j'ai vu des Fleuristes fameux tels que G. Voorhelm, ne se tromper presque

jamais a l'inspection d'un oignon, quoiqu'il en possede plus de douze cens especes"

p 44 Hyacinths never come true at Harlem, not one instance of. - differ in colour & shape -

p 44 seed from a quite full hyacinth best to get double from - that simply double H' not so good for this

p 50 as a flower first appears, so will it remain in general colour, but it will be perfected in size, proportions & tints.

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p 51 a century ago double hyacinths were despised & all tendency to double was carefully destroyed.

p 52 the oldest double flowers now lost, the oldest is 70 years old (all this var. produced in this short time

p 53 in 1767 season with cold winds all the red hyacinths were far below in quality to their average

p. 104 Has made to germinate wheat buried by Charles V in magazine under ground for near 200 years

p. 116 Le Coriphée is always composed of two stems, which rise together & are covered by the same skin - it always accompanies this kind & makes all its merits

p. 118 Bees & flies visit Hyacinths & he attributes partly their great variation to crossing

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p. 122 out of the thousands of bulbs annually planted one has not remarked so much as one sport in colour (for form always constant) in a bulb. a blue hyacinth has given for 3 successive years offsets of a white colour with red centre - & thus made a new kind - another double blue gave a white offset - From certain peculiarities in these flowers this change certain - a single blue hyacinth gave offset which bore one flower pale blue & 3 others spotted blue & white - There are variegated Hyacinths.

p 124 gives case of a blue & red hyacinth cut int two & united (which will happen as he has proved) sends up two united stems with flower of different colours on the two sides "il arrivait encore que les couleurs de confondaient, et faisaient une nuance des deux" bears on Laburnum case.

p 125 a double never degenerates int single or reverse

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p 128 Le Theâtre Italien comes out of the ground in a coloured sheath - the leaves then appear & do not develop themselves till after the flower, "which for this reason is more injured by frosts" - another var. always pushes a second flower after the first begins to develop itself. &c

p. 129 "Les blanches a coeur rouge, pourpre, ou violet sont les plus sujettes a se gâter (spoiled) elles pourissent facilement"

There are numerous small differences in bases of bulbs &c &c leaves &c &c

There appear to be more double than single - all produced (ie probably many hundred kinds or more than 1000 kinds) within 70 years

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