April 12, 2008

Fat Dutch Crocuses, Indeed!

via An Iowa Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00

Henry Mitchell, in his best-known book The Essential Earthman has this to say about hybrid crocuses: "Let us have no more talk about 'fat Dutch crocuses'... as if the gardener loved only the slender, elegant wild crocuses... unfed, unbred, and untouched by the Dutch. The truth is that nothing is more sprightly to see than patches of fat Dutch crocuses in March, coming as they do to lift our spirits and amaze the young and simple.". . .
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Fat Dutch Crocuses, Indeed!

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