William Byrd's Flower Garden of 1684

Modern-day crocus garden, however, the bulb was traditional in colonial gardens

When William Byrd was touring Virginia during May of 1685,  he wrote a letter describing the flowers in his garden as being the seeds and roots from iris, crocus, tulip and anemone.  Source: Records of Henrico County, vol. 1677-92, p. 284.

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