How To Use Hyacinth In A Sentence
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Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
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Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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People often wonder what to do when tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, Easter lilies, and other spring-blooming bulb flowers have faded.
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He placed the azoth on his bureau, put Hyacinth's needler and his beads beside it, and removed his trousers.
Calde of the Long Sun
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Children look for the Little People in mauve flowers – Canterbury bells and hyacinths – and, though they never find them, they know them there.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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The pink tulips have opened along with the white candytuft and the blue grape hyacinths are still hanging on.
Home Sweet Home « Fairegarden
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The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing.
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She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few.
Flowering Wilderness
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Katerina's eyes had been a deep hyacinth blue, but even in the dim light of the theatre, he could see that Caroline's were grey-blue.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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There was a heated dispute between the merit water hyacinth on purification or pollution in water - bodies.
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The most familiar popular smells are probably fresh coffee, newly mown grass, hyacinths and freshly baked bread.
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It is probably identical with the lighure of (Exodus 28: 19) The Jacinth or hyacinth is a red variety of zircon, which is found in square prisms of a white, gray, red, reddish-brown, yellow or pale-green color.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise.
How To Avoid Housework
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Water hyacinths, duckweed, and pondweed are all aquatic monocots.
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Cross-fertilising a pure white hyacinth with a blue seedling, followed by painstaking years of bulb harvesting and reselecting for the darkest colour, have resulted in the black bloom.
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Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the earth.
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Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks.
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Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and irises are universal symbols of spring.
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With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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Adair used five stems each of red roses, pink hyacinths, pink callas, red anemones, plus 15 small red tulips.
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The white winter flowering heather and pink cyclamen had faded but were soon replaced by violas, primulas and grape hyacinth.
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Though many of the reliably perennial bulbs will work their way into the beds after they have provided for me in the pots, tulips, hyacinth and paperwhite narcissi rarely flower a second year.
Light up your garden with bulbs
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Despite an aggressive campaign two years ago to eliminate the species, water hyacinths appear to be reinvading much of the lake.
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Below the trailing sweeps, violets and daffodils and drifts of yellow, blue and white crocus came forth in Spring and later tulips, grape hyacinth and other like bulbs kept the willow company.
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Along the shore are ceiba and banana and ficus, and bright emerald clusters of sea lettuce (Chlorophyta), water hyacinth, giant mango trees, the fruit tree called poponjoche, and the bright-blossomed national flower, the Sacuanjocheink.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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What to buy: Look for bulbs such as amaryllis, hyacinth, daffodil, muscari, narcissus (shown in the box above) or crocus (shown in the glass) at your local florist or garden center.
Spring Forward
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It includes, besides hyacinths, sweet neroli, an abundance of the ethereal rosewood essence, light and airy lavender oil, elemi, sandalwood, myrrh and frankincense.
Requiem to the Zodiac Perfumes
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Signs of life are appearing in the borders: pure white hellebores, pots of blue pansies, the tips of blue hyacinths peeping through the earth and tiny white cyclamen among their marbled foliage.
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Daffodils, hyacinths, crocus and other popular spring bulb flowers are also widely available now.
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Hyacinths are available wherever flower bulbs are sold, including garden centers, home centers, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues.
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In his buttonhole was a hyacinth, and in one slender ivory hand he carried a huge bunch of pink roses, which, bowing deeply, he presented to the embarrassed girl.
Fire-Tongue
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It is the season to plant flowering bulbs such as tulips, narcissi, crocuses and hyacinths.
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et puro cornu gemmea cuspis hiat; ingentis oculos credas geminos hyacinthos,
The Phoenix
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Daffodils, hyacinths, bluebells and many species of lily also contain toxins.
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Move one upholstered chair out of your living room and replace it with something in wicker, rattan, or woven water hyacinth.
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Common bulbs planted in the fall for the spring are tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, muscari, crocuses and perennials such as peonies, daylilies, hostas, and coral-bells.
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For example, early-flowering hyacinths offer a heady and fragrant choice for planting in containers along walkways and at entrances.
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The Hyacinth enjoyed a vogue in the 18th and early 19th centuries, grown not only indoors and out but used as ornaments for women's fashions and even as a pharmaceutical.
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I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus.
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Geophyte diversity is remarkably high; the lowland and montane fynbos ecoregions support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monocot families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae.
Montane fynbos and renosterveld
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Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
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It has far outlasted the bowls of hyacinth and narcissi that came into flower at the same time.
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Daises, lilies, tulips, chrysanthemums, petunias, and hyacinths also blossomed.
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Tell her that their floral arrangements will be pink roses, hyacinth and gloriosa lilies.
Deep Throat Diva
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Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs.
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Toury and Les Aubrais had been left behind, when, at Beaugency, they at last ceased their chat, on hearing Sister Hyacinthe clap her hands and intonate in her fresh, sonorous voice:
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
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Some true bulbs, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and Dutch irises, are tunicated, with the scales completely enveloping the basal plate.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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At the rate these water lettuce heads propagate themselves, they may shortly be declared an invasive weed by the State of Arizona, as has already happened to water hyacinths and duckweed.
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However, _quid multis_ Mr. Hyacinthus; 'tis no indoctrinated or obscure scribe who now addresses you, and who does so from causes that may be salutary to your own health and very gentlemanly fame, according as you resave the same, not pretermitting interests involving, probably, on your part, an abundant portion of pecuniarity.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Recently, the treatment techniques of water hyacinth may consist of bio-treatment, chemical-treatment, physical-treatment and comprehensive treatment.
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Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks.
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We put sprigs of white hyacinth in a glass tumbler and placed it on a tray with candles.
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There is stately eremurus; the foxtail lily, perfect for the back of the border; camassia, ideal for woodland plus anemones, hyacinth, iris, bluebell and cyclamen.
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A whole new world of gardening awaits you when you go searching for water lettuce, water hyacinths, lilies and prairie grass.
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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And then like how it happens sometimes, the paper got pushed inside a drawer and neither of us wrote about that brilliant meal that proved that Bengali food is not all 'phish' We had started with an amazing hyacinth beans patties steamed in banana leaves with tomato-khajurer chatni.
Cabbage curry with Bengali spices
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For instance, on page 140, the botanical name for the water hyacinth is given as "Eichornia crassipes"; the more usual spelling is "Eichhornia crassipes", as used on page 210.
Lake Chapala: a review of "The Lerma-Lake Chapala watershed: evaluation and management"
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Put up hyacinths, paperwhite narcissus and forcing bulbs for an early display.
The to-do list: October
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Any of several similar or related plants, such as the grape hyacinth.
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We also have a third pump to move gray water from the underground tank in which it is collected into the greenhab, where it is filtered and processed by duckweed and water hyacinths until it is clean enough to use for flushing the toilet, as mentioned earlier.
MDRS-88 sol 7: Engineering
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By cooling the aqueous solution, hyacinth-red octahedra of a crystalline hydrate of composition
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Zircon has been known since biblical times, and it has been called by a variety of names, including jargon, hyacinth and jacinth.
Zirconium
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Although strongly doubly refracting, the hyacinth shows scarcely any dichroism and thus lacks variety of color.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Geophyte diversity is particularly high; the lowland and montane ecoregion support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monoct families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae.
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
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Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and irises are universal symbols of spring.
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Fall is the season to plant trees, turf grasses and spring-blooming flower bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses.
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Styrolene has an odour very much resembling hyacinth, and probably forms the basis of most of these preparations, together with terpineol, and other artificial bodies.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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Spring brings more than half a million blooming bulbs, including daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips.
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Grape hyacinths, Pulmonaria, rock cress, azaleas, lilacs, wallflowers and pinks furnish nectar in early and mid-spring.
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The water hyacinth is a plant that removes pollutants from the water, which is why it isn't feasible to dredge it out, chop it up, and use it for forage or mulch.
Lake Chapala "Cesspool"
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Hyacinth bloom buds should have come up far enough to show in the heart of the leaf rosette before you bring the pots into the light.
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Most of the 630 species of geophytes are petaloid monocots in the families Hyacinthaceae (Lachenalia, Ornithogalum), Iridaceae (Babiana, Lapeirousia, Moraea, Romulea), Amaryllidaceae (Brunsvigia, Hessea, Strumaria) and Asphodelaceae (Bulbine, Trachyandra).
Succulent Karoo
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In place of hyacinth, try violets, sweet pea, pansies, or even grass; spray roses will work well in place of the ranunculus.
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Wagtails and sandpipers squeak and dart amongst the thick glossy hyacinth leaves, and at the muddy edges, bluethroats scuttle this way and that like mice.
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The blue wild hyacinth has given name to a colour, not very unlike the violet tint; it is sometimes called the bluebell, but pink ones may be found in woods, and garden hyacinths are of various colours.
Chatterbox, 1906
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The combination of bedding plants such as primulas, violas and forget-me-nots, combined with bulbs such as hyacinth and dwarf tulips, can make a very bright and attractive display.
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In his mind's eye, Silk saw the talus he had killed; the shimmering discontinuity that was the blade of the azoth he had thought Hyacinth's had struck it below the eye, vaporizing metal and inflicting a mortal wound.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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Mijnheer took up a root here and there, telling her something of the history of each; explaining how the narcissus increased and the tulips grew; showing her hyacinth bulbs cut in half-breadthways with all the separate severed layers distended by reason of the growing and swelling of the seeds between.
The Good Comrade
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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The specially treated multiflora hyacinths are also beautiful when naturalized and can provide long-lasting color.
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She examined three caves, and each one was yellow from pollen belonging to hollyhocks, grape hyacinth, yellow yarrow (Achillea), horsetail (Equisetum), seven other summer flowering plants, and evidence of pine branches.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers
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Summer is the season of various kinds of beans full of protein including cowpeas, hyacinth beans and horse beans.
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Remember that some bulbs such as tulips and hyacinths do not always come back strongly in subsequent years.
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Red zircon, which is rare, is properly called "_hyacinth_.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
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In addition to cereals the Greeks used figs, grapes, pomegranates, spinach, marrows, celery, nettles, hyacinth bulbs, artichokes, asparagus and honey.
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Crocus, tulips, grape hyacinths and the rest can follow.
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The park has populations of 20 open habitat bird species that are considered to be endangered, including hyacinth macaw Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (VU), rufous-sided pygmy-tirant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus (VU), black-bellied seedeater Sporophila hypochroma (NT) and black-and-tawny seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa (EN).
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia
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Low oxygen conditions develop beneath water hyacinth and the dense floating mats impede water flow and create good breeding conditions for mosquitoes.
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Use hippeastrum, paperwhite narcissus, hyacinth or even crocus and miniature iris.
Times, Sunday Times
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Combine the pleasures of both with holiday red amaryllis and pristine white tulips and fragrant hyacinths.
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Scillas bring the sky-blue color down to earth under flowering pear trees and forsythias, as hyacinths underplanted with pansies welcome visitors.
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The female Thrypticus deposits an egg in a water-hyacinth petiole - the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
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It has far outlasted the bowls of hyacinth and narcissi that came into flower at the same time.
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You can start entirely new plants from pieces of daylilies, tulips, hyacinths, and other beauties for next to nothing.
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HYACINTH ( WHITE ) - Loveliness , I'll Pray For You.
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Then the colors became more mellow: cinnamon, hyacinth blue, aquamarine, mauve.
LORD PRESTIMION
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There might have been dark clouds overhead but on the ground the magnificent colours of the hundreds of daffodils, grape hyacinths and polyanthus helped to dispel the gloom.
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This conquest through biocontrol has spurred the search for other insects to match the range of climates where the water hyacinth thrives.
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Try bulbs that are prolific in winter months, such as tulips, narcissus, hyacinth, kalanchoe and cyclamen.
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It was a work of art, four feet in diameter comprised of orchids, lilies of the valley, hyacinths, arum lilies and white carnations.
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Later blooming hyacinths and tulips can be planted anytime before the ground freezes.
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Fall is the season to plant trees, turf grasses and spring-blooming flower bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses.
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To the forest wild hyacinth bloom Department, where all good, wherever.
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Other fun bulbs for easy forcing include colorful hyacinths, crocuses and narcissi.
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Anaerobic facultative can remove more than 80% of TNT and RDX in the wastage. Aquatic organism (water hyacinth) can degradate TNT and RDX in some extent.
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Species propagated from bulbs, such as hyacinths, daffodils, snowdrops, bluebells and irises, often require cold winter temperatures to stimulate root development.
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Hyacinth bean, a vigorous annual vine, can quickly cover an arbor during one season.
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In winter and early spring, one can see an abundance of a delicate sowbread Cyclamen abchasicum; in mid-spring grape hyacinth Muscari dolichanthum and star of Bethlehem Ornithogalum arcuatum catch the eye.
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Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and irises are universal symbols of spring.
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= -- An increased number of stamens frequently accompanies the corresponding alterations in other whorls, and seems, if anything, to be more frequent among monocotyledonous plants than among dicotyledonous ones; thus, we occasionally find tetramerous flowers in _Crocus_, _Hyacinthus_, _Tulipa_, _Iris_,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Grape hyacinths, Pulmonaria, rock cress, azaleas, lilacs, wallflowers and pinks furnish nectar in early and mid-spring.
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In addition to cereals the Greeks used figs, grapes, pomegranates, spinach, marrows, celery, nettles, hyacinth bulbs, artichokes, asparagus and honey.
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The white winter flowering heather and pink cyclamen had faded but were soon replaced by violas, primulas and grape hyacinth.
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We passed egrets nesting in the mangrove and great mats of water hyacinth with lilac flowers; we saw fish-hawks and blue herons and watched the crocodiles being fed.
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Scilla, glory-of-the-snow, dwarf iris, puschkinia and grape hyacinths are bulbs whose blooms follow close behind.
Suzy Bales: Your Garden in Winter
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Some areas are carpeted with thick mats of water hyacinths - mats so dense that herons and blackbirds walk across them and no boat can shove through.
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The miracle of spring flowers such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies is even more astounding when one realizes how they reach the bloom stage each year.
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I've now got in my bunky-hole (it is not quite six feet square) a polypod fern, a plate of moss, a pot of white hyacinths, and also catkins, violets, and mimosa!
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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These are soon followed by crocuses, scillas, and chionodoxas; then come the hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips.
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With hundreds of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, lilies, alliums and other bulbs to consider for planting this fall, catalogues give both the visual sizzle and nitty-gritty information needed to make smart choices.
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However, while I'm certainly no chemist, very few if any of these uses are presumably appropriate when the water hyacinth is heavily contaminated.
Fish Kill at Lake Chapala
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Hyacinth and Narcissus stand by, wan and sere.
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Snowdrops are in full bloom, and daffodils and hyacinth are following fast.
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Another voice from Western Washington - my rhody is blooming, and my daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and iris are up.
Making Light: Like an ice storm, only with more volume
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Later blooming hyacinths and tulips can be planted anytime before the ground freezes.
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Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Indoor gardeners, by and large, prefer their hyacinths full-blossomed and deliciously fragrant.
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She found Hyacinth, placid and biddable, an agreeable playmate and Mada Joyce a fine source of entertainment.
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And there were other melancholy flowers also: fleshy ranunculi with rusty tints, hyacinths and tuberoses that exhaled asphyxia and died from their own perfume.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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It is the season to plant flowering bulbs such as tulips, narcissi, crocuses and hyacinths.
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About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould.
The power of spring flowers
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Colour is inspired by spring flowers - daffodil yellow, light green, lilac and hyacinth blues or blossom pinks.
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Today, the hyacinth is found in more than fifty countries on five continents.
Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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While daffodils and hyacinths have their fans, tulips are, by far, the most popular flower.
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Modern hyacinth hybrids are among the most deliciously scented flowers in the garden.
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Plant out bowls of hyacinths and daffodils that have finished flowering in the house, before they dry out.
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Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes Solms) is used to substitute rice straw for the cultivation of padi straw mushroom.
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Now is the time to plant those hyacinth and tulip bulbs that you have had chilling in the crisper of the refrigerator.
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Try bulbs that are prolific in winter months, such as tulips, narcissus, hyacinth, kalanchoe and cyclamen.
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The hyacinth is an aquatic plant that was introduced from Brazil in the 19th century by misguided holticulturists and has become a devastating superweed.
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There is therefore a danger that the continued organic pollution of the lake may reverse the success achieved so far using biocontrol methods to control the water hyacinth.
Eastern Africa and freshwater resources
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Garden centres are supplied with spring flowering bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, narcissus, tulips and crocus, but let's not stop there.
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Water hyacinths, duckweed, and pondweed are all aquatic monocots.
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By the leaf, perianth and bulb as explant and divided them 5 ages degree, studied of hyacinth difference explants and theirs ages on bulb induce in vitro.
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Main ingredients: Liquorice, Hyacinth Bletilla, White Atractylodes , Angelica, Dogberry, Natural Amino acid Moisturing Factors.
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Flowering bulbs such as hyacinths, daffodils, crocuses, and tulips, along with hellebores, lungworts, and heathers carpet the ground beneath.
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On his head he wore a _petasus_ of hyacinthine hue, out of which sprang three peacock's feathers.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05
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Scillas bring the sky-blue color down to earth under flowering pear trees and forsythias, as hyacinths underplanted with pansies welcome visitors.
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A. Hyacinth bletilla (B. striata) is a hardy terrestrial orchid that grows quite well in the D.C. region.
Amid the heat wave, gardeners still have questions
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Daises, lilies, tulips, chrysanthemums, petunias, and hyacinths also blossomed.
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This included eradication of mosquitoes, plus elimination of non-native species such as water hyacinth by flooding with salt water and trapping nutria and feral hogs.
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Careful now, be sure water hyacinth is the only plant they'll eat.
Enough water hyacinths, more than enough
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And at the flood of purple hyacinths that turned the air to ambrosia: `Oh, smell them, Christopher!
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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Sister Hyacinthe had just gone into the house, and like an illumination the thought darted through Barbara's mind that the road could be seen from the little summer house which the reverend owner of the castle called his "frigidarium," because it was cool even during the warmest summer day.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 07
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They are also frequently and incorrectly called jacinth or hyacinth, terms which, as we have seen, should be reserved for yellow and red zircon, respectively.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Groundcover plantings of smoky mauve heathers come alive in spring with surrounding sweeps of cobalt blue grape hyacinths.
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The key to creating a show-stopping display of forced hyacinths is to use a large-mouthed container and plant a multitude of bulbs.
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Among the most commonly forced bulb flowers are amaryllis, paper-white narcissus, muscari and hyacinths.
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I love the tiny tete a tete daffodils and spring squills, grape hyacinths and species Irises, but so does Puppy.
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Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the earth.
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I stomp outside, closing my eyes and breathing in the fresh air, scented with freesia and wisteria and hyacinths.
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A nice and often used combination with galbanum is hyacinth so I added that as well and some light rosy and lily notes.
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Another major problem in the region is water hyacinth, also known as pickerelweed, which is choking Lake Victoria, Africa's largest.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Completing the picture of the perfect bulbous plant, is the fact that hyacinths are very easy to bring into flower.
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Other fun bulbs for easy forcing include colorful hyacinths, crocuses and narcissi.
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Daffodils, scillas, snowdrops, hyacinths, and tiny tulips were all growing there in September in the most improbable profusion.
CHARMED LIFE
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There followeth, for the latter part of January and February, the mezereon – tree, which then blossoms; crocus vernus, both the yellow and the grey; primroses; anemones; the early tulippa; hyacinthus orientalis; chamairis; fritellaria.
The Essays
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In mid spring the grape hyacinths , muscari armeniacum, are blooming, the sedum spurium ‘Red Carpet’ is red and the calluna is changing from red to yellow.
The Knot Garden « Fairegarden
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The unfortunate mistranslation of water hyacinth as "water lily" is seen less frequently these days.
Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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Remember that some bulbs such as tulips and hyacinths do not always come back strongly in subsequent years.
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It is the season to plant flowering bulbs such as tulips, narcissi, crocuses and hyacinths.
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It is the season to plant flowering bulbs such as tulips, narcissi, crocuses and hyacinths.
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Your hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and grape-hyacinths can be saved for planting in the garden.
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Zephyrus hated Hyacinthus because he scorned him, and preferred his corrival Apollo.
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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The flowers are thickish, something like the pyrola, and its manner of growth resembles the hyacinth, with bell-shaped flowers clustering along the upper part of the stem, and erect, pointed leaves.
Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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Among the minor bulbs, safe choices are snowdrops (Galanthus); winter aconite (Eranthis); Scilla, Muscari, Chionodoxa and Hyacinthoides hispanica.
The Brightest Bulbs
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A curiosity of the water hyacinth is that, in floating plants, the flower heads or inflorescences bend downwards one or two days after flowering,, submerging themselves in the water.
Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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Many Dutch gardeners like to force successive flowerings of hyacinths indoors in flowerpots.
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O pastoral pipes, no longer sing of Daphnis on the mountains, to pleasure Pan the lord of the goats; neither do you, O lyre interpretess of Phoebus, any more chant Hyacinthus chapleted with maiden laurel; for time was when Daphnis was delightful to the mountain-nymphs, and Hyacinthus to thee; but now let Dion hold the sceptre of Desire.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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He, who grew up on the north shore of Lake Maggiore, filled a fish pond in the back yard with water hyacinths and gambusias from Lake Maggiore.
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Use hippeastrum, paperwhite narcissus, hyacinth or even crocus and miniature iris.
Times, Sunday Times
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The zircon, hyacinth, jacinth, or jargoon belong to the tetragonal system of crystallization.
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Crocus, grape hyacinths and narcissi are particularly suitable for larger grassy areas such as medians, slopes and the areas in front of shrubs.
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He now sells common varieties including delph blue, pink pearl, white Carnegie hyacinths and City of Haarlem yellow hyacinths for around 40p a bulb.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Crocuses, daffodils, other narcissi, tulips, and hyacinths are just where the choices begin.
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Then a young man in a blue shirt rushed up to his arriving girlfriend with a huge bunch of hyacinths and daffodils.
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Daffodils, iris, tulips, gladiolus, hyacinth, and daylilies are just some of the many bulb favorites.
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This couer to the necke was made in skalie work of _Hyacinth_, except the vaynes of smaragd, for the little dragons, their bellies and feetes fastening to the skalie couer.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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The names _hyacinth_, _jacinth_, and _jargoon_ are applied to red, yellow, and colorless zircon in the order as given.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Lemnius haec etiam gemmis exstruxit et auro admiscens artem pretio trabibusque smaragdi90 supposuit caesas hyacinthi rupe columnas. beryllo paries et iaspide lubrica surgunt limina despectusque solo calcatur achates. in medio glaebis redolentibus area diues praebet odoratas messis; hic mitis amomi, 95 hic casiae matura seges, Panchaeaque turgent cinnama, nec sicco frondescunt uimina costo tardaque sudanti prorepunt balsama riuo.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria
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As well as the old favourites, try bluebells, snowflakes, grape hyacinths, lily of the valley, fritillaries, alliums, lilies of every kind and colour.
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Hyacinths are available wherever flower bulbs are sold, including garden centers, home centers, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues.
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And at last, when Sister Hyacinthe had clapped her hands, the whole carriage intonated the "Te Deum," the hymn of praise and thanksgiving.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
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Then a young man in a blue shirt rushed up to his arriving girlfriend with a huge bunch of hyacinths and daffodils.
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These results show that the mirid compromises waterhyacinth competitiveness, and validate the introduction of the mirid into South Africa.
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You must observe that there are three kinds of plants which are said to have bulbous roots: those which are solid, and which should be properly called corms, such as the crocus, the corn-flag, and many of the half-hardy plants with similar half-tubular flowers; the tunicated bulbs, which may be peeled off in scales, such as the onion, the hyacinth, and the tulip; and the scaly bulbs such as the lily.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Greece or the grandeur that was Rome, but whatever they were, Margaret had all of them, and the hyacinth hair, very thick and clustery and beautiful, and the naiad airs.
Aladdin O'Brien
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Two insect biocontrol species, weevils in the genus Neochetina, were used, along with mechanical removal, to control the highly invasive water hyacinth, which has also plagued waterways in the southern United States.
Biocontrol of Invasive Water Hyacinth Contributes to Socioeconomic Improvement | Impact Lab
