The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ and _botryoides_ are both cultivated in
gardens, but the former here figured is by far the most common;
_racemosus_ and _botryoides_, though different words, are expressive of
the same meaning, the former being derived from the Latin term
_racemus_, the latter from the Greek one [Greek: votrus], both of which
signify a bunch of grapes, the form of which the inflorescence of these
plants somewhat resembles, and hence they have both been called Grape
Hyacinths, but as confusion thereby arises, we have thought it better to
call this species the Starch Hyacinth, the smell of the flower in the
general opinion resembling that substance, and leave the name of Grape
Hyacinth for the _botryoides_.

The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ grows wild in the corn fields of Germany, in
which it increases so fast by offsets from the root as to prove a very
troublesome weed, and on this account it must be cautiously introduced
into gardens.

It flowers in April and May.

We have found the Nurserymen very apt to mistake it for the
_botryoides_, a figure of which it is our intention to give in some
future number.




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ANEMONE HORTENSIS. STAR ANEMONE, or BROAD-LEAV'D GARDEN
ANEMONE.