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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dutch Bulbs and Gardens, by Una Silberrad and Sophie Lyall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: Dutch Bulbs and Gardens Author: Una Silberrad Sophie Lyall Illustrator: Mima Nixon Release Date: April 11, 2015 [EBook #48678] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS *** Produced by Shaun Pinder and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s note: In the html version of this eBook, clicking on the color illustrations will open a larger version. DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME GARDENS OF ENGLAND By E. T. COOK WITH 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY BEATRICE PARSONS A. AND C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. AGENTS America The Macmillan Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York Australasia The Oxford University Press 205 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Canada The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd. 27 Richmond Street West, Toronto India Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta HET LOO DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS PAINTED BY MIMA NIXON DESCRIBED BY UNA SILBERRAD AND SOPHIE LYALL LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1909 TO MY DEAREST FRIEND GERTRUDE CROFTON IN MEMORY OF HAPPY DAYS SPENT IN HOLLAND WHICH WE SAW TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME MIMA NIXON. vii PREFACE Miss Nixon wishes me to present her humble duty and thanks to Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, for graciously honouring her with the permission to make drawings of Her Majesty’s Summer Palace and Gardens at Het Loo. Miss Nixon also wishes me to thank His Excellency Baron Sistema van Grövestins for his kindness in procuring for her the privilege of access to the Royal Gardens at Het Loo, and to thank the Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., for his kind help. Her thanks are also due to Mr. W. H. Wind, Her Majesty’s Head Gardener at Het Loo; to Miss van der Laan, Bennebroek; and to Messrs. Tubergen, Kersten, Krelager, Roozen, and the other growers at Haarlem. I wish to thank Mr. Thomas Hoog of Haarlem, who helped me in the compiling of the following pages by supplying much valuable information, which I trust I have not too greatly mishandled. UNA L. SILBERRAD. March 1, 1909. viii ix CONTENTS By UNA L. SILBERRAD PAGE CHAPTER I On Getting There 1 CHAPTER II Crocus and Early Spring Flowers 28 CHAPTER III Hyacinth or Iris? 47 CHAPTER IV Some Old Favourites and New 68 CHAPTER V The Aristocrat of the Bulb Gardens 83 CHAPTER VI Bulb Barns, Names, and Growers 104 x 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 xi 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 xii DUTCH BULBS & GARDENS 1
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