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= = Bulbs = =, such as Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocuses, &c., which have not been planted, will have commenced growing, notwithstanding the precautions taken to prevent it, thus showing that they ought to be in the ground.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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Hyacinths: I buy them in the supermarket in the late winter, then plant the withered bulbs in my garden in the spring, and the following year have patches of deliriously fragrant blooms.
Maria Rodale: My Top 10 Favorite Flowers Maria Rodale 2011
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"Tourists have already been coming here for over a month now as the Hyacinths bloomed in the month of February only and due to the slightly warmer winter this time, the Tulips bloomed a bit early too," said Javed Ahmad Shah, in-charge, Tulip Garden.
JK CM Omar hoped that tourists from all over the country and abroad would be charmed by Tulip Garden 2009
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Hyacinths in the yellow/white bed were purchased in bloom several years ago for that pale yellow color.
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Along with an added terrace, Hyacinths have been cultivated this year as well which usually bloom a month before the Tulips.
JK CM Omar hoped that tourists from all over the country and abroad would be charmed by Tulip Garden 2009
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Here's to mass-production of "Hyacinths and a Mechanic"!
Hyacinths and a Mechanic by Andy Tauer Marina Geigert 2008
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Hyacinths are not among the common spring flowers in our gardens, although some people recycle their bulbs from Christmas in that way.
Perfume Review: Andy Tauer Hyacinth and Mechanic Marina Geigert 2007
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Concert of Hyacinths, in which he calls to his beloved: "Take with you the light of hyacinths and baptize it in the wellspring of day" and assures her that "when you glitter in the sun that on you glides waterdrops, and deathless hyacinths, and silences, I proclaim you the only reality."
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If Odysseus Elytis, the author of The Concert of Hyacinths, had wished to use that flower as one of the analogies between environment and perception that are an essential part of his cultural outlook, he could have said that our potplants are a west-European rationalization of something which in his country grows wild, thereby acquiring its everlasting beauty.
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Hyacinths and daffodils, peach trees and roses, were in bloom in the deserted and fenceless gardens; and the dark green leaves of the japonica and laurel covered many a heap of unsightly rubbish.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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