And thirdly, you weave the water hyacinth into products.

第三步，把水葫成工艺品。

These seeds then take root, and produce new hyacinth plants.

随后, 这些种生根发芽, 成长为新的风信。

What is the use of its bulb to the hyacinth?

风信的球茎有什么用呢?

Such hyacinths are somewhat different from the wild ones.

这些风信与野生的有所同。

Did you ever buy hyacinth bulbs to grow in pots or glasses, or in your garden?

你是否买过风信球茎, 种植在花、玻璃瓶或花园之中?

Thus the same hyacinth plant grows on in the ground year after year, forming a new bulb every year.

因此, 年复一年, 新的球茎总是能够在原地生长成为另外一株风信。

First step: Get out into the waterways and harvest the water hyacinth.

第一步，进入河道， 收割水葫。

Sometimes, but not often, we find the wild hyacinth bearing white flowers, and sometimes purple flowers.

有时候也能看到盛开白色与紫色花朵的风信, 常见。

Each hyacinth flower has a little stalk of its own, by which it hangs from the main stem.

风信的每一花朵都有一枝连接茎干的小花梗。

Let us dig up a wild hyacinth, bulb, roots, and all, so that we may have the entire plant to examine.

让我们连同球茎和根挖起一株完整的野生风信, 仔细观察这种植物。

The flowers are crowded more closely together on the flower-stalk than they are in the wild hyacinth, and are of more varied colours.

与野生风信相比, 家养风信花茎上的花朵彼此依靠得更加紧密, 而且颜色更加丰富。

The flowers have a rich, sweet perfume, and we can often tell by the scent alone that we are coming near a bed of hyacinths.

风信散发着浓郁的甜美香气, 闻到这种香气, 就能够知道附近肯定有一片风信花床。

Harry was sitting in the tent entrance, on guard duty, staring idly at a clump of grape hyacinths that had forced their way through the chilly ground, when Ron shouted excitedly from inside the tent.

哈利坐在帐篷的入口处警戒，他懒洋洋地看着被丛生的葡萄树和风信遮挡住的寒冷地面，这时帐篷里传出了罗恩兴奋的喊叫声。

Each flower looks like a little bell, and for this reason the children in England often call the wild hyacinth the " blue-bell. " But in Scotland and some other places the name " blue-bell" is given to the hare-bell, a very different plant.

每一个花朵看起来都像一个小铃铛, 为此, 英格兰的孩们经常把野生的风信称作“蓝铃花”。然而, 在苏格兰及其他一些地方, “蓝铃花”指的是另外一种完全同的植物——圆叶风铃。