I found that my gardener was in the habit of throwing away his old bulbs--Hyacinths and Tulips--which had served their turn and lived their season.
The crocus and the primrose may have gone, The snowdrop may be low, But soon the purple glow Of hyacinths will fill the copse, and lilies watch the dawn.
Shrinking hyacinths in their shade; I welcome thee with all thy pride, I love thee like an Eastern bride.
Massive spikes of hyacinths distilled a rich perfume that was none too sweet in the open air.
Rosamund confessed that hyacinths had a lovely name, and that they suggested spring, but she added that they smelt as if they had always lived in hothouses, and were quite ready to be friends with gardenias.
Tennyson has termed the woodland abundance of Hyacinths in full spring time as "The heavens upbreaking through the earth.
Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy; White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
While on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side Reposing, under some dark ilex now Chews the pale herbage, or some heifer tracks Amid the crowding herd.
Then she re-entered the little gate, and began to tend the jonquils and hyacinths that were just coming into bloom in her little flower garden.
And the subtile, penetrating fragrance of the hyacinths came into the window as soon as I opened it.
I was not more than seven when one day, by a well, near a sea-loch in Argyll, just as I was stooping to drink, my glancing eyes lit on a tall woman standing among a mist of wild hyacinths under three great sycamores.
And the bland scent of the innumerable troops of hyacinths in Hyde Park was a language to him as he strolled in the sun towards the Row.
As they did so the hot, sticky scent of the hidden hyacinths poured out to meet them.
Indeed, the heat and the overpowering scent of the hyacinths had previously weighed upon her physique, and increased the malaise into which her curious new dutifulness, and the faint spectre which drew near to her, had brought her.
The light was a welcome visitor to the hyacinths and roses, obliged to hide in torturing silence in the still green-house, pouring out their passionate dumb life in intensity of fragrance.
And in the spring it was a wilderness of sweet hyacinths and daffodils, lilac and may.
In a bowl on the table were hyacinths and sweet-smelling narcissi.
And by that time the hyacinths will be over, and it would be no good.
Out in the open, in a cup in the hills where the carpet of heaven-blue hyacinths dwarfed into closer growth showed like a shadowy cloud against the clearer blue of the sky.
The motor sped on, the mist wreaths of the hyacinths grew dulled by young green sprouting ferns, and the rocks closed in for the swift turn by the school.
Hyacinths may also be grown in water, but not as easily as this narcissus, or in such inexpensive dishes.
Now, hyacinths should be planted six inches apart each way, and the outside row should be at least three inches from the edge of the bed.
Suppose we want a bed of red, white, and blue hyacinths (Fig.
Delilah put a spray of pink hyacinths in her hand.
Wortley came again, with a great bunch of hyacinths and jonquils, and laid them on Jacqueline's bed.
But there was something effeminate about him which repelled me, I cannot say in what way; nor did I approve of the presence of many bowls of hyacinths in the room.
An imaginary breath of hyacinths would have reached him, to conjure up vividly the hateful, perfumed environment of Ormuz Khan.
The perfume of hyacinths seemed to have pursued him, bringing with it a memory of the handsome, effeminate ivory face of the man above.
For some reason the heavy perfume of the hyacinths affected him unpleasantly.
But I myself have raised these yellow hyacinths with the greenish calyxes, and more beautiful ones are not easily found.
Christel met them in the garden, her hands full of hyacinths and spring flowers, which she had just cut and made into a simple nosegay.
As the place was open, the breeze there was far greater than elsewhere; hence Cinna commanded to carry to that spot the litter, decked with hyacinths and apple-blossoms, in which Antea was resting.
May it favor you both, and may the health of Antea bloom like those hyacinths and those apple-tree twigs, which adorn her litter.
She held up to show him some wonderful mauve and blue hyacinths that she carried, and then passed on.
In four or five weeks bring inhyacinths and polyanthus narcissi.
Hyacinths are easily grown in pure water; a special vase called the "hyacinth glass" being made for the purpose.
Grape Hyacinths Muscari, any of the numerous kinds.
Sow the seeds of My divine wisdom in the pure soil of the heart, and water them with the waters of certitude, that the hyacinths of knowledge and wisdom may spring up fresh and green from the holy city of the heart.
Wherefore sow the seeds of wisdom and knowledge in the pure soil of the heart, and keep them hidden, till the hyacinths of divine wisdom spring from the heart and not from mire and clay.
Sow the seeds of My divine wisdom in the pure soil of thy heart, and water them with the water of certitude, that the hyacinths of My knowledge and wisdom may spring up fresh and green in the sacred city of thy heart.
This method of propagating hyacinths is confined almost entirely to Holland.
You must take some of our hyacinths with you to London, and see whether they will not blossom there," said Maria, answering to her friend's thought.
The gardens sent up their fragrance into the warm, still air: the cottage windows were open, and early roses and late hyacinths appeared within the casements.
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