Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — The California Twining Hyacinth. [ARTICLE]

The California Twining Hyacinth.

The Twining Hyacinth is a wonderfully singular and beautiful plant, which grows among the mountains of California. It twines itself into and around every bush or shrub within its reach, and does not stop climbing till its slender stem has reached the top of its support, even if it should be ten feet high. When it has gained the top, it seems to rest for a while, as if to look abopt it and feel sure of its position, and men lets go its hold upon the earth, and without any connection with the ground, or any sustenance from it, goes on blooming and ripening its seed, month after month, no more affected, apparently, by the scorching licit of the sun by day, nor the chill of the mountain air by night, than if it had an anchoring root like an oak tree. The leaves are long and narrow, resembling blades of grass; the flowers are a fine pink, or deep rose color, any as you may judge from the picture, vers beautiful. This strange plant bloomd constantly from May to September.