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Hyacinth. Legends, myths, symbolism, description, cultivation, methods of application
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Hyacinth, Hyacinthus. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism Sort by: Hyacinth (Hyacinthus) Family: Hyacinths (Hyacinthaceae) Origin: Hyacinth comes from Mediterranean countries including Greece, Israel and Turkey. Area: Hyacinth is cultivated and grows throughout the world, but is especially popular in Europe and North America. Chemical composition: Hyacinth contains essential oils, carotenoids, flavonoids and glycosides. The essential oils give the hyacinth its characteristic aroma. Economic value: Hyacinth is often used for landscaping gardens and parks, as well as an ornamental plant in the home. In addition, hyacinth is used in perfumery and cosmetics due to its aroma. Legends, myths, symbolism: In Greek mythology, hyacinth is associated with the god Apollo and the beautiful young man Hyacinth, with whom he was in love. Once, when Apollo and Hyacinth were playing sports, the ball hit the young man's head and killed him. Hyacinth grew from the blood left on the ground. Therefore, hyacinth is associated with beauty, which can lead to death. In another myth, the hyacinth is associated with the goddess of love, Aphrodite. She fell in love with the beautiful young man Adonis, who was killed in a fight with a wild boar. From his blood grew hyacinth, which became a symbol of rebirth and eternal love. In symbolism, the hyacinth is also associated with growth and renewal. In Christian tradition, hyacinth symbolizes resurrection and hope for life after death. In Japanese culture, hyacinth is associated with the beginning of spring and the renewal of nature. In general, the hyacinth is a flower that is associated with beauty, love and rebirth. Its legends and symbolism reflect many aspects of human life and the meaning we find in beauty and nature.
Hyacinth, Hyacinthus. Description, illustrations of the plant Hyacinth. Legends, myths, history
Hyacinth is a flower of love, happiness, fidelity and sorrow. The name of the flower "hyacinth" in Greek means "flower of the rains", but the Greeks at the same time called it the flower of sadness and also the flower of memory of Hyacinth. There is a Greek legend associated with the name of this plant. In ancient Sparta, Hyacinth was for some time one of the most significant gods, but gradually his fame faded and his place in mythology was taken by the god of beauty and the sun, Phoebus, or Apollo. The legend of Hyacinth and Apollo has been one of the most famous stories about the origin of flowers for thousands of years. The favorite of the god Apollo was a young man named Hyacinth. Often, Hyacinth and Apollo arranged sports. Once, during a sporting event, Apollo was throwing a discus and accidentally threw a heavy disc directly at Hyacinthus. Drops of blood splashed on the green grass, and after a while, fragrant purple-red flowers grew in it. It was as if many miniature lilies were gathered into one inflorescence (sultan), and on their petals the mournful exclamation of Apollo was inscribed. This flower is tall and slender, the ancient Greeks call it hyacinth. Apollo immortalized the memory of his beloved with this flower, which grew from the blood of a young man. In the same Ancient Greece, hyacinth was considered a symbol of dying and resurrecting nature. On the famous throne of Apollo in the city of Amikli, the procession of Hyacinth to Olympus was depicted; according to legend, the base of the statue of Apollo, seated on the throne, is an altar in which the deceased youth is buried. According to later legend, during the Trojan War, Ajax and Odysseus simultaneously claimed possession of Achilles' weapons after his death. When the council of elders unfairly awarded the weapon to Odysseus, this amazed Ajax so much that the hero pierced himself with a sword. A hyacinth grew from the drops of his blood, the petals of which are shaped like the first letters of Ajax's name - alpha and upsilon. Huriya curls. So called hyacinth in the countries of the East. "The interweaving of black curls will only scatter the scallop. And a stream of hyacinths will fall on the roses of the cheeks," these lines belong to the Uzbek poet of the XNUMXth century Alisher Navoi. True, the assertion that beauties learned to curl their hair from hyacinths appeared in ancient Greece. About three thousand years ago, Hellenic girls decorated their hair with wild hyacinths on the wedding day of their friends. The Persian poet Ferdowsi constantly compared the hair of beauties to the swirling hyacinth petals and highly appreciated the fragrance of the flower: "Her lips were fragrant better than a light breeze, and hyacinth-like hair is more pleasant than Scythian musk." Hyacinths in gardens were cultivated for a long time only in the countries of the East. There they were as popular as tulips. Hyacinth lives in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. It was popular in the Ottoman Empire, from where it penetrated into Austria, Holland and spread throughout Europe. The charming hyacinth came to Western Europe in the second half of the XNUMXth century, primarily to Vienna.
In Holland, the hyacinth happened to be from a shipwrecked ship, which was carrying crates of bulbs. The storm smashed the boxes and washed the bulbs ashore, which sprouted, bloomed and became a sensation. It was in 1734 when the fever for growing tulips began to cool and the need for a new flower was felt. So he became a source of great income. The efforts of the Dutch were directed first to breeding, and then to breeding new varieties of hyacinths. Flower growers tried different ways to propagate hyacinths faster, but nothing worked. The case helped. Once a mouse spoiled a valuable bulb - it gnawed out the bottom. But unexpectedly for the frustrated owner, children appeared around the affected area, and how many more! Since then, the Dutch began to specially cut the bottom or cut the bulb in a cross shape. Tiny onions formed at the sites of damage. True, they were small and they were grown for 3-4 years. But flower growers do not take patience, and good care for bulbs accelerates their development. In a word, more and more marketable bulbs began to be grown, and soon Holland traded them with other countries. Very fond of hyacinths in Germany. A descendant of the Huguenots, gardener David Boucher, who had an excellent collection of primroses, began to grow hyacinths. In the second half of the XNUMXth century, he arranged the first exhibition of these flowers in Berlin. Hyacinths so impressed the imagination of the Berliners that many were carried away by their cultivation, taking up the matter thoroughly and on a grand scale. It was fashionable entertainment, and King Frederick William III himself repeatedly visited Boucher. The demand for hyacinths was so great that they were grown in huge arrays. Author: Martyanova L.M.
Hyacinth. Myths, traditions, symbolism
A flower that, according to the myth, was previously a person or could only grow due to the death of a person. Hyacinth (Gyakinf) - the Spartan prince, according to the legend of the first homoerotic male love, was revered by the singer Famirid, as well as the god of love Apollo, who, through negligence, killed Hyacinth by throwing a disc; Hyacinth was also in love with the west wind Zephyr, who out of jealousy rejected the direction of the disc's flight. From the blood of the deceased young man, hyacinths arose ("Metamorphoses" by Ovid), on the petals of which the mournful "ah, ah" was applied. At the burial of Hyacinth in Amikla (the burial place of Cassandra was also located there), hyacinthia was annually assimilated - festivities in honor of Hyacinth, the biggest holiday of the Spartans. In the history of religions, Hyacinth is considered to be a pre-Greek plant god, whose significance was subsequently eclipsed by Apollo, and she was reduced only to the role of a hero of tragic-lyrical legends. Author: Biedermann G.
Hyacinth. Interesting plant facts
Who is not familiar with the hyacinth, that marvelous flower with a marvelous smell, which enchants us with its fragrance in the midst of deep winter, and whose lovely plumes of flowers, as if made of wax, of the most delicate shades, serve as the best decoration of our dwellings during the holidays in winter? This flower is a gift from Asia Minor, and its name in Greek means "rainy flower", since in its homeland it begins to bloom just with the onset of warm spring rains. Ancient Greek legends, however, produce this name from Hyacinth, the charming son of the Spartan king Amycles and the muse of history and the epic Clio, with which the very origin of this flower is associated. It happened back in those blessed times when gods and people were close to each other. This charming young man, as the legend tells, who enjoyed the boundless love of the sun god Apollo, once amused himself with this god by throwing a discus. The dexterity with which he threw it, and the fidelity of the flight of the disc, surprised everyone. Apollo was beside himself with admiration and rejoiced at the success of his favorite. But the little god of the light breeze, Zephyr, who had long been jealous of him, blew out of envy on the disk and turned it so that, flying back, it crashed into the head of poor Hyacinth and struck him to death. Apollo's grief was boundless. In vain did he hug and kiss his poor boy, in vain did he offer to sacrifice even his immortality for him. Healing and enlivening everything with its beneficial rays, he was not able to bring it back to life ... How, however, was to act, how to at least preserve, perpetuate the memory of this creature dear to him. And so, the legend says further, the rays of the sun began to bake the blood flowing from the dissected skull, began to thicken and fasten it, and from it grew a lovely red-lilac flower, spreading its wonderful smell over a long distance, the shape of which on one side resembled the letter A - the initial of Apollo, and on the other, Y, the initial of Hyacinth; and thus the names of two friends were forever united in it. This flower was our hyacinth. He was transferred with reverence by the priests of Delphic Apollo to the garden that surrounded the temple of this famous oracle, and since then, in memory of the untimely deceased youth, the Spartans annually held a holiday called Hyacinthius. These festivities took place at Amikles in Licinia and lasted three days. On the first day, dedicated to mourning the death of Hyacinth, it was forbidden to decorate the head with wreaths of flowers, eat bread and sing hymns in honor of the sun. The next two days were devoted to various ancient games, and even slaves were allowed to be completely free these days, and the altar of Apollo was filled with sacrificial gifts. For the same reason, probably, we often find in ancient Greece the image of both Apollo himself and the muses, decorated with this flower. Such is one Greek legend about the origin of the hyacinth. But there is another thing that connects him with the name of the famous hero of the Trojan War, Ajax. This noble son of King Telamon, ruler of the island of Salamis near Attica, was, as you know, the bravest and most prominent of the heroes of the Trojan War after Achilles. He wounded Hector with a stone thrown from a sling, and struck with his powerful hand many enemies near the Trojan ships and fortifications. And so, when, after the death of Achilles, he entered into a dispute with Odysseus about the possession of the weapon of Achilles, he was awarded to Odysseus. The unfair award caused Ajax such a heavy insult that he, beside himself with grief, pierced himself with a sword. And from the blood of this hero, another legend says, a hyacinth grew, in the form of which this tradition sees the first two letters of Ajax's name - Аi, which at the same time served as an interjection among the Greeks, expressing sorrow and horror. In general, this flower among the Greeks was, apparently, a flower of grief, sadness and death, and the very legend of the death of Hyacinth was only an echo of popular beliefs, popular belief. Some indication of this can be one saying of the Delphic oracle, who, being asked during the famine and plague that raged once in Athens: what to do and how to help, ordered five daughters of the alien Hyacinth to be sacrificed on the tomb of the Cyclops Gerest.
On the other hand, there are indications that sometimes it was also a flower of joy: for example, young Greek women cleaned their hair with it on the wedding day of their girlfriends. Originating from Asia Minor, hyacinth was also loved by the inhabitants of the East, especially the Persians, where the famous poet Firdousi continually compares the hair of Persian beauties with the twisting limbs of a hyacinth flower and in one of his poems, for example, says: "Her lips smelled better than a light breeze, // And hyacinth-like hair is more pleasant, // Than Scythian musk..." Exactly the same comparisons are made by another famous Persian poet Hafiz; and there is even a local saying about the women of the island of Chios that they curl their curls as well as a hyacinth curls its petals. From Asia Minor, hyacinth was transferred to Europe, but first to Turkey. When and how - it is not known, earlier, he appeared in Constantinople and soon became so fond of Turkish wives that he became a necessary accessory to the gardens of all harems. The old English traveler Dallaway, who visited Constantinople at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, tells that a special wonderful garden was arranged in the seraglio of the Sultan himself, in which no other flower was allowed except for hyacinths. The flowers were planted in oblong flowerbeds lined with elegant Dutch tiles and enchanted every visitor with their lovely color and wonderful smell. Enormous money was spent on maintaining these gardens, and in the era of flowering of hyacinths, the Sultan spent all his free hours in them, admiring their beauty and reveling in their strong smell, which oriental people love so much. In addition to the ordinary, so-called Dutch, hyacinths, a close relative of them was bred in these gardens - the grape-shaped hyacinth (H. muscari), which in Turkish is called "Mushi-ru-mi" and means in the oriental language of flowers "You will receive everything that I can only give you." (Obviously, this refers to muscari, or mouse hyacinth, in particular, m. racemose.) Hyacinth came to Western Europe only in the second half of the XNUMXth century, and first of all to Vienna, which at that time had the closest relations with the East. But here it was cultivated and was the property of only a few inveterate gardeners. It became public property only after it came to Holland, to Haarlem. He got here, as they say, by chance on a Genoese ship broken by a storm off the Dutch coast. The ship was carrying various goods somewhere, and with them hyacinth bulbs. The boxes in which they were thrown up by the waves broke on the rocks, and the bulbs that fell out of them washed ashore. Here, having found suitable soil for themselves, the bulbs took root, sprouted and bloomed. Observant flower lovers immediately drew attention to them and, amazed by their extraordinary beauty and wonderful smell, transplanted them into their garden. Then they began to cultivate and cross them, and in this way they obtained those wondrous varieties that constituted an inexhaustible object of pleasure both as a culture and as a source of enormous income, which has enriched them since then for whole centuries. It was in 1734, i.e., almost a hundred years after the tulip, just at the time when the fever that gripped the cultivation of this flower began to cool down a bit and there was a need for some other one that could distract from this passion and if possible, replace the tulip. The hyacinth was just such a flower. Graceful in shape, beautiful in color, surpassing the tulip in its wonderful smell, it soon became the favorite of all the Dutch, and they began to spend no less money on its breeding and breeding of its new varieties and varieties than on a tulip. Especially this passion began to flare up when it was possible to accidentally bring out a terry hyacinth. Hobbyists are said to have owed this interesting variety to an attack of gout by the Haarlem horticulturist Piotr Ferelm. This well-known gardener was in the habit of mercilessly plucking from flowers every malformed bud, and no doubt an ugly bud that appeared on one of the especially precious species of hyacinth would have undergone the same fate. Fortunately, however, Ferelm fell ill with gout at this time and, forced to lie in bed for more than a week, did not visit his garden. In the meantime, the bud blossomed and, to the great surprise of Ferelm himself and all Dutch gardeners, turned out to be a never-before-seen terry form of hyacinth. Such an accident was enough to arouse general curiosity and arouse the passions that had been subdued. To look at this miracle moved from all over Holland, even gardeners came from neighboring countries; everyone wanted to see for themselves the existence of such an incredible form and, if possible, acquire it in order to have something that no one else had. Ferelm christened this variety with the name "Maria", but, unfortunately, both this specimen and the next two terry specimens died with him, and only the fourth survived, to which he gave the name "King of Great Britain". It was from him that all the now available terry hyacinths went, so that this variety is considered in Holland to this day the progenitor of all terry hyacinths. Then Dutch gardeners began to pay attention to increasing the number of flowers in the flower arrow, to increasing the size of the flowers themselves, to obtaining a new color ... Especially their efforts were aimed at obtaining the brightest possible yellow color, since among the blue, crimson and white tones that distinguished the colors of these colors, this color was very rare. The achievement of a triumph in any of these aspirations, the receipt of each outstanding variety, was invariably accompanied by a festival. The lucky gardener invited all his neighbors to christen the newborn, and the christening was always accompanied by a rich feast, especially if the new variety received the name of some famous person or royal person.
How much such novelties could cost at that time is even hard to believe, especially if we take into account the relatively high value of money at that time and the cheapness of food products. Paying 500 - 1.000 guilders for a bulb of a new variety was considered even very ordinary, but there were bulbs, such as, for example, the bright yellow "Ofir", for which they paid 7.650 guilders per piece, or "Admiral Lifken", for which 20.000 guilders were paid! And this was when a cartload of hay cost almost a few kopecks, and for a kopeck a day it was possible to feed perfectly ... More than two centuries have passed since then, and although Dutch hobbyists no longer pay such crazy money for new varieties, the hyacinth remains their favorite flower. And until now, outstanding horticultural firms arrange annually the so-called parade fields, that is, entire gardens of flowering hyacinths, located in rooms covered from above with an awning. And masses of people flock there to see and admire these wonderful flowers. At such exhibitions, every gardener tries to show off the perfection of his cultures, some original novelty in front of his associates and interested amateurs and receive special awards appointed by large gardening firms. Here, of course, not only vanity now plays a role, but also another, more important goal - a commercial one: to prove to both the Dutch public and numerous foreign customers the superiority of their product and to acquire a new buyer. And this goal is achieved in most cases. Thanks to this kind of exhibitions, many insignificant firms have moved forward and have now become first-class. Thanks to them, every year the number of new varieties is increasing and increasing. From the former 40 varieties, their number has now increased to 2.000, and not a year passes without a few more new ones. From Holland, the culture of hyacinths passed primarily to Germany (Prussia), and then to France. In Prussia, it began to develop mainly shortly after the migration from France of the Huguenots expelled by the Edict of Nantes, who generally transferred to Germany, and especially to Berlin, a taste for beautiful flowering plants, beautiful pruning of trees and beautiful garden planning. But she achieved special fame only in the second half of the XNUMXth century, when David Boucher (a descendant of the Huguenots) staged the first exhibition of hyacinths in Berlin. The flowers exhibited by him so impressed with their beauty and captivated with a wonderful smell all Berlin lovers of floriculture and the Berlin public in general, that many took up their cultivation with no less zeal than the Dutch in the old days. Even such serious people as the court chaplains Reinhard and Schroeder were fond of them, who from that time not only cultivated these flowers in huge quantities almost until their death, but also brought out many of their varieties. A few years later, in Berlin, on Komendantskaya Street, near the hyacinth crops of this Busche, even a special Berlin coffee house founded by his relative, Peter Busche, where all the nobility and all the rich of Berlin gathered to drink coffee and admire hyacinths. This visit has become such a fashion that King Friedrich Wilhelm III himself has repeatedly visited Boucher and admired his flowers. Such a passion for hyacinths among the Berlin public did not take long to give rise to a mass of Bushe's competitors among other gardeners, and in 1830, entire fields were covered with hyacinth crops near the Schleswig Gate. Suffice it to say that up to 5.000.000 hyacinth bulbs were planted on them annually. To see these flowering fields of hyacinths, every year in May, the entire population of Berlin flocked there: both horse and foot, rich and poor. It was something like a mania, some kind of pilgrimage. Thousands of people stood around these fields for hours and reveled in the beauty of the flowers and their wonderful smell. It was considered unforgivable not to visit the hyacinth fields and not to see them ... At the same time, gardeners charged a considerable entrance fee for a close examination of the flowers, and also earned a lot of money from the sale of bouquets of cut hyacinths, which every more or less wealthy person considered buying for himself compulsory. But everything in the world is transient. And these hyacinth exhibitions and fields, so famous at the beginning of the forties, gradually began to bother, less and less to attract the public, and ten years later they completely stopped. Now only memories remain of these huge fields (their area is all cut up by the railway), and although hyacinths are still cultivated in some places on the south side of Berlin, there is no mention of the former millions of bulbs. At present, the largest is if several acres are occupied under these crops, which give an income of 75 thousand to 100.000 rubles. In France, hyacinths were also very loved, but far from making such a splash as in Holland and Prussia. Here they attracted special attention only when scientists began to cultivate them in vessels with water without any admixture of earth, and when in 1787 the Marquis Gonfleier, at a public meeting of the French Society of Agriculture, acquainted Parisians with the original experience of cultivating hyacinth in water - a stem in water, and roots up. The sight of such a hyacinth blooming its beautiful flowers in the water amazed everyone. The news of this new mode of culture quickly spread throughout Paris, and then throughout France, and everyone wanted to repeat this experience for themselves. Everyone was especially surprised that with such development in water, the leaves completely retained their size, shape and color, and the flowers, although they turned out to be somewhat paler, were nevertheless fully developed. Since then, the culture of hyacinths in France began to come into fashion more and more. Especially famous was the culture of small early hyacinths, called Roman (Romaine). But this charming flower had at one time a very sad use in France: it was used to stupefy, reaching the point of poisoning, those persons whom for some reason they wanted to get rid of. This was especially practiced with women, and, moreover, mainly in the XNUMXth century. A bouquet or basket of hyacinths, usually intended for this purpose, was sprinkled with something so poisonous that it could be masked by the strong smell of these flowers, or the flowers were placed in such a quantity in the bedroom or boudoir that their strong smell produced terrible dizziness in nervous people and even caused death. It is difficult to guarantee how true the latter is, but in the memoirs of Mr. Sam, who lived at the French court during the time of Napoleon I, a case is cited when an aristocrat who married a rich man killed him by cleaning his bedroom every day with a mass of blooming hyacinths. A similar case is given by Freiligrath in his poem "Revenge of the Flowers". And in general, it should be noted, there are many people who cannot stand the stupefying smell of this flower, feel dizzy and even faint. Of the newest writers, we also meet Edgar Allan Poe in his story "Arnheim Manor", where he describes entire fields of flowering hyacinths. Author: Zolotnitsky N.
Hyacinth. Useful information
Hyacinths: on the left - blue hyacinth; right - hyacinth orientalis On one sunny day in 1734, Dutch children, playing on the banks of the river, noticed a flower that had never been seen before by the very water. Its leaves looked like those of a tulip, and the stem was planted with many red flowers. The adults who came running to the cries of the children were perplexed where this amazing plant came from. But when we went further along the shore, we found several more sprouted bulbs. They began to wonder how they got ashore, and remembered that a month ago, during a storm, a Genoese ship sank nearby, the main cargo of which were flower bulbs. The inhabitants dug them up and began to plant them in their gardens. Plants accidentally brought by the sea turned out to be hyacinths. Flowers began to cross, improve, try to increase the size, get a different color. If this succeeded, then each new variety was given a new name. Charles Darwin, observing the work of gardeners and checking the methods of breeding hyacinths, in the book "Change of animals and plants under the influence of domestication", published in Amsterdam in 1768, wrote: "If you cut the bulbs of blue and red hyacinths in half and put them together, then they grow together and give a common stem. I have seen with my own eyes a hyacinth with red and blue flowers. But the most remarkable thing is that sometimes flowers are obtained in which both colors are merged into one. " And further: “The hyacinth is remarkable in that varieties with bright blue, pink, and definitely yellow flowers are descended from it. These three simple colors do not occur in varieties of any other species; they are not common at all even in separate species of the same same kind." The name of the flower "hyacinth" in Greek means "flower of rains", but the Greeks at the same time called it the flower of sadness and also the "flower of memory" of Hyacinth. The handsome young man was patronized by the god of the south wind Zephyr and Apollo. They often visited their friend on the banks of the Eurotas in Sparta and spent time with him, sometimes hunting in densely overgrown forests, sometimes having fun in sports, in which the Spartans were unusually dexterous and skillful. Once Apollo and Hyacinth competed in discus throwing. Higher and higher the bronze projectile rose, but it was impossible to give preference to any of the athletes - Hyacinth was in no way inferior to God. Straining his last strength, Apollo threw the disk under the very clouds, but Zephyr, fearing the defeat of his friend, blew so hard that the disk unexpectedly hit Hyacinth in the face. The wound proved fatal. Apollo, saddened by the death of a young man, turned drops of his blood into beautiful flowers so that his memory would live forever among people. In the same Ancient Greece, Hyacinth was considered a symbol of dying and resurrecting nature. On the famous throne of Apollo from Amicles, the procession of Hyacinth to Olympus was depicted; according to legend, the base of the statue of Apollo, seated on the throne, is an altar in which the deceased youth is buried. During the festival, hyacinths were entered into the altar through a copper door and there they brought offerings to Hyacinth. Then the cult of Hyacinth was supplanted by the cult of Apollo. Reflected in the mirror of folk fantasy, the celebration turns into a romantic legend of dual command, and both in Ancient Greece, in Asia Minor, and in southern Italy, hyacinth festivals are celebrated in honor of both Hyacinth and Apollo. Therefore, on the first day of the festival, everyone indulged in sorrow, bringing memorial sacrifices, and on the next two, they arranged merry games and competitions in honor of Apollo. If you look at the plant from the side, then each of its flowers resembles two Greek letters - upsilon (from which the Greek name Hyacinth begins) and an inverted alpha: where the first letters of Hyacinth and Apollo seem to have merged. The attitude towards the plant among the ancient Greeks also had a dual character. In principle, the flower was considered a symbol of sadness, grief and death. However, on wedding days, bridesmaids used to decorate their hair with them, and in our time, flowers and hyacinth bulbs are hung in Greece as protective amulets over the doors of village houses. Hyacinth was bred in Persia, in Byzantium. After the conquest of Byzantium by the Turks, hyacinth became the favorite flower of the Turks, at the beginning of the XNUMXth century it penetrates Vienna, Holland, which became, as it were, its second home. The cultivation of hyacinths is becoming a mass phenomenon there. New varieties are being developed, the color of leaves and flowers, their size, shape and quantity are changing. A case was recorded when one bulb gave three arrows with blue on one, red on the other and purple on the third. The number of new varieties from four varieties in 1597 reached two thousand in 1768. And the history of flower breeding is full of sad, funny, funny cases. An unusual way of growing hyacinths upside down is mentioned. A special glass vessel was invented, into one half of which water was poured, and into the other, with narrow and wide holes, earth was poured and two hyacinth bulbs were planted. One hyacinth rose up, the second went out into a narrow hole and, like a reflection of a flower, grew and bloomed in the water. Gardeners owe the discovery of this method to the incident that happened to the French gardener Gonfleier, who once tipped upside down on a grate covering a pool of water, a pot with sprouted hyacinths. When, after a while, the gardener decided to put the pot in its normal position, he found that the plant had grown through the grate into the water. Haarlemsky gardener Peter Forelm suddenly fell ill just when a unique variety of hyacinth was supposed to bloom in the greenhouse. As the plant grew, the breeder usually mercilessly cut off extra buds, but this time the flower was left to itself, as a result, a plant with numerous petals appeared, which became the progenitor of all double hyacinths. In Russia, the first hyacinths appeared in 1730. Sixteen varieties for the Annenhof Garden in Lefortovo were ordered from Holland by the gardener Branthof. They would have been ordered from abroad if the botanist A.I. Resler had not grown hyacinth bulbs in Batumi in 1884 and proved by his own experiments that this plant could well grow on the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea. Since then, domestic varieties of hyacinths have not been inferior to foreign ones either in beauty or in flowering time. Author: Krasikov S.
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