INDEX
Achimenes, [113]
efficacy against poison, [43]
Aconites, [105]
Alliums, [45]
Alphen, [154]
Amaryllis, [113]
Amstelveen, [154]
Amsterdam, [4], [5], [6], [170]
Great Canal of, [3]
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]
protection against frost, [74], [112]
growing from seed, [74]
Bicycles in the bulb gardens, [11]
Bulb cleaning, [106], [107], [110]
Bride, The, [15]
Cannas, [113]
Catalogues, [15], [116], [117]
Clusius, [59], [63], [71], [75], [76]
Colchicums, [34]
“Conquests,” [141] et seq., [146], [166]
Co-operation among bulb growers, [123]
Crinums, [113]
Crocus sativus, [34]
Crocuses, [32]-[39], [113], [161]
legends connected with, [35], [36]
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]
Recurva, [73]
Snake’s-head, [73]
Galen, [59]
Gerard, [16], [33], [38], [39]
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]
Hepaticas, [70]
Hille, [33]
Hillegom, [44]
Hoorn, [170]
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]
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.
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]
candicans, [58]
Hymerocallis, protection from frost, [112]
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]
Ixia viridiflora, [16]
Ixias, green, [16]
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]
Barri, [78]
Emperor, [78]
Empress, [78]
Golden Spur, [78]
Grandee, [78]
Henry Irving, [78]
legends connected with, [79]-[81]
protection from cold, [77]
Red, [77]
Sir Watkin, [88]
Van-Sion, [75]
Will Scarlet, [77]
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]
Rubbish-heaps, absence of, [5]
Saffron growing, [34]
Saint-Simon, [121], [122], [126], [128], [146], [147], [167]
Sand, [5]
medical uses, [59]
multiplication of, [43]
origin of, [43]
rubra, [59]
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]
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]
“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]
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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