10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD HYACINTH»
Discover the use of
wild hyacinth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wild hyacinth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
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Meals and Recipes from Ancient Greece
WILD HYACINTH BULBS AS A LOVE POTION These rose-colored bulbs, which
convey a false innocence, are actually a famous aphrodisiac. This seems to have
been an accepted fact, going back many centuries, as Martial writes of the bulbs
...
Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, 2007
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Southern California Native Flower Garden
Plant wild-hyacinth to add delicacy and color to meadow plantings, or grow it in
and around low open shrubs to start the bloom season early. This plant is a
prolific grower, multiplies quickly from cormlets, and can naturalize in the garden.
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Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the Midwestern and Eastern ...
Camassia scilloides, wild hyacinth (height, 0.3–0.6 m), is one of the earliest
flowers to bloom on the prairie (mid-May). See page 104 for illustration. Often
deer deprived of forage over the winter will decimate both the flower and leaves.
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Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert
Alph. Wood Lily Family Liliaceae Growing on rocky slopes in oak woods,
chaparral and desertscrub, wild hyacinth can be abundant in spring if autumn
and winter rains were plentiful. At the top of the single flowering stalk are two to
fifteen ...
Janice Emily Bowers, 1998
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The Scent of
Hyacinth: Seven Kings of Rome Novels
Another year would pass before I proved to myself that wild hyacinth bulbs grew
quite happily in a sheltered garden with a fall planting about a hand's-width deep
and a hand's-length apart, along with a good winter mulch of strawy manure left ...
Sherrie Seibert Goff, 2005
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Rambles in search of
wild flowers, and how to distinguish them
The Wild Hyacinth (Hyacinthus nonscriptus, Plate 2ZVT., fig. 9), abounds in
woods in spring. I have never visited a locality where it was not to be found.
People will call it " Bluebell ;" and certainly its flower is bell-shaped and blue ; but
the true ...
... youth, Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo the Sun God, and also by the God
of Winds, Zephyr. In their quarrel over him, he was slain, and from his blood
arose the hyacinth flower. The Linnean name for wild hyacinth, non scriptus,
refers to ...
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H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950
Her hyacinth - a 'wild-hyacinth' in 'Pursuit' (1 1) - was not the cultivated species,
but the wild Greek iris. She described Sappho's companions as girls who 'stand
among tall spotted lilies and the cup of jacynth and the Lesbian iris' (Vision 63).
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline
Hare-bell] Ellacombe: This is undoubtedly the Wild Hyacinth (Scilla nutans),
though we must bear in mind that the name is applied differently in various parts
of the island; thus 'the Harebell of Scotch writers is the Campanula, and the
Bluebell, ...
William Shakespeare, 2001
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD HYACINTH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
wild hyacinth is used in the context of the following news items.
Local wildflowers flourish with recent rainfall
In the heart of Malibu, at Malibu Bluffs Park Open Space, green meadows are currently full of wild hyacinth — also known by the less than euphonious name ... «Malibu Surfside News, Mar 15»
What's going on around Encinitas this weekend and beyond
Spring ushers in a wildflower bonanza of brilliance and fragrances, often seen in the abundance of blue-eyed grasses, lupines, and wild hyacinth. «Encinitas Advocate, Mar 15»
It's National Wildflower Week! Get a Little Wild with Flowers on …
Hyacinth (Hoosier) The wild hyacinth are native perennial wildflowers that love full ... A short hike uphill and you are immersed in the full bloom of wild hyacinth, ... «USDA.gov, May 14»
The Wild Side: Derbyshire's bluebell woods explored by Heather …
THE beautiful bluebell – or wild hyacinth – is among our most popular flowers and its purple haze on a sun-dappled morning is one of the iconic images of the ... «Derby Telegraph, Apr 14»
Maine Gardener: Plant spring-flowering bulbs now
Camassia is an unusual plant that deserves to be more popular, a U.S. native sometimes called Wild Hyacinth that can stand some shade and some damp soil, ... «Press Herald, Oct 13»
Weekend Plantings: Climate Zones, Peace Lily, Year of the Gerbera
Often called wild hyacinth or Cape cowslip, these lovely lily relatives, though listed as suitable for zones 9 to 11, require dry summers and wet winters to flourish. «The Ledger, Jun 13»
Checking in on Francis Ford Coppola's New Italian Hotel: Palazzo …
A recent meal there included deep-fried wild hyacinth bulbs, orecchiette with broccoli rabe, braised baby artichokes, lamb-stuffed mushrooms, roasted Senise ... «LA Weekly, Jun 12»
World's largest collection of rare hyacinths bursts into bloom
He also propagates the hyacinths, which involves digging up an onion-sized bulb ... The wild hyacinth originated in Turkey and the Middle East and its sweet ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 10»
