APPENDICES
By SOPHIE LYALL
| PAGE | |
| I | |
| Hyacinth Culture at Haarlem in the Eighteenth Century | [121] |
| II | |
| The Tulip Trade, from De Koning’s “History of Haarlem” (1635) | [168] |
| III | |
| The Hyacinth Trade, from De Koning’s “Tafereel der Stad Haarlem” (1808) | [171] |
| INDEX | [173] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| 1. Het Loo | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| 2. The “Berceau,” Het Loo | [8] |
| 3. Palace Gardens, Het Loo | [16] |
| 4. Azaleas, Het Loo | [24] |
| 5. The Return of the Storks | [28] |
| 6. The Promise of Spring | [32] |
| 7. A Crocus Field | [40] |
| 8. Hyacinths scattered on the Sand | [48] |
| 9. “In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white, like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery” | [56] |
| 10. Spanish Irises | [64] |
| 11. A Bulb Farm near Overveen | [68] |
| 12. “They spring, they bud, they blossome fresh and faire, and decke the world with their rich pompous showes” | [72] |
| 13. Bulb Time, Haarlem | [78] |
| 14. Tulips in their Prime | [84] |
| 15. “Here are tulips for you—white, for the bridal or the burial” | [88] |
| 16. “Whose leaves with their crimson glow Hide the heart that lies burning and black below” | [94] |
| 17. Darwin Tulips | [100] |
| 18. A Bulb House | [104] |
| 19. Flower-Market, Haarlem | [108] |
| 20. Hyacinth Flowers going to Market | [112] |
| 21. A Bulb-Grower’s Garden | [116] |
| 22. “When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil” | [128] |
| 23. A Boatload of Fragrance | [144] |
| 24. A Dutch Garden in Spring | [160] |
DUTCH BULBS & GARDENS
CHAPTER I
ON GETTING THERE
Undoubtedly the way to go to the Bulb Gardens of Holland is to go the way by which the bulbs come to England. Or at least follow that route to a certain extent—the bulbs usually make part of the inland journey in their own country by canal boat, neither a very possible nor a very comfortable proceeding for the average traveller. But for the rest, their route is the one for those who have leisure and who want to get to the gardens in the most suitable way.