Hyacinths

View of five varieties of hyacinths in the foreground of a coastal landscape. Hyacinths are native to the eastern Mediterranean and make up a genus of three species in the Asparagaceae family. The flowers depicted in this plate, whose colors range from white, to light blue, to dark blue, are referred to as follows by the author:

The double white hyacinth has been denominated La Heroine; that which is double and all of a light blue, Globe Terrestre. The Diana Van Epheson is a double white hyacinth, with small red spots; and Velour Pourpre is the dark double blue hyacinth with green at the edges of the petals; and the single dark blue is named Don Gratuit.