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Achimenes, 113
Aconite, Winter, 31, 43
efficacy against poison, 43
Aconites, 105
Alkmaar, 86, 109, 170
Alliums, 45
Alphen, 154
Amaryllis, 113
Amstelveen, 154
Amsterdam, 4, 5, 6, 170
Great Canal of, 3
Anemone coronaria, 68, 71
Anemones, 23, 70
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
Begonias, 73, 113
protection against frost, 74, 112
growing from seed, 74
Bicycles in the bulb gardens, 11
Bulb cleaning, 106, 107, 110
Busbecq, 98, 100
Bride, The, 15
Calochortus, 17, 113
Cannas, 113
Catalogues, 15, 116, 117
Cleanliness, 5, 107
Clusius, 59, 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
wood, 48, 58
Hyacinthus, 47-49, 124
candicans, 58
orientalis, 49, 58
Hymerocallis, protection from frost, 112
“Iohnquills,” 75, 161
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
Spanish, 60, 63
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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
origin of, 96-100
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
Vegetables, 9, 91, 110
“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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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”

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