The Weekly Florists r Review. 



961 



NARCISSI IN WASHINGTON. 



Please giv 

 ing the Pape 

 to bloom sn 



ne pointers on grow- 

 uareissus. Tliey fail 



rily after the first 

 year, imported from France or Cali- 

 fornia. Have tried lifting the bulbs in 

 July ami August ami planting again in 

 November, and have tried leaving them 

 in, as we have other narcissi, and still 

 no blooms. In the latter ease the bloom 

 buds appeared by January 1 and were 

 nipped by the first eold days. The bulbs 

 grown here are very much larger than 

 when imported. The narcissus family, 

 with this exception, is very much at 

 home here and blooms last in the field 

 six weeks. Wash. . 



I would rather this communication had 

 been sent to some one more up on the 

 narcissus and for another reason. This 

 inquirer aud I have' had frequent corre- 

 spondence on the subject of bulb growing 



of hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, candidum 

 and iongiflorum lilies, wonderful in size, 



grown in the wonderful soil and li Ii- 



mate of Washington. The exhibit of 



Last fall I received from Washington 

 a bulb of Lilium candidum. It was fully 

 six inches in diameter. 1 grew it in an 

 8-inch pot and this spring it threw up 

 three strong flower stems, each one as 

 strong and with as many flowers as the 

 average single stems we used to get in 

 the old days when this was an important 

 Easter flower. I have not seen bulbs 

 of the longillorum lilies, but hear that 

 the} make as fine bulbs, The hyacinths, 

 tulips. Von Sinn narcissi, and some other 

 bulbs which 1 don't recall, were, if not 

 twice as large in size, fully twee as 

 heavy as bulbs of the same varieties im- 

 ported from Holland. The Dutchman 



have size, big 

 fine a flower. ' ' 

 or not I can't 

 esident William 

 teresting paper 

 lited States and 

 nig able to pro- 

 instead of im- 

 le conclusion of 



hi le use it, us. a- t ' , : 1 1 ejlit charge 



cross tl intinenl would make them 



ost more to us than the Holland bulbs, 

 luty included, such is the cheapness of, 

 cean freight and such is a sample of 

 ow our great railroads have us. Mr. 

 Smith looked down at me in a fatherly 

 ray, as becomes an old gentleman to a 

 oung one, and said: " You spoke the 



But now to the narcissi. The, native 

 clime of the Paper White I don't know. 

 It is a very different bulb from the true 

 narcissus of which we can take Von Sion 

 as a type. Thej a re pi rfect .- hardy ; 

 Paper Whites are not. Some \ erj : au 

 ful narcissi are found growing in Ire 

 land, something akin to the climate of 

 Washington, except perhaps the latter 

 may have a little more sunshine. We 

 are told, and know by experience', that 

 the Paper, White narcissus should not be 

 exposed to frost at any time of its ex- 

 istence. For commerce it is, I believe, 

 grown in the south of France. At least 



The " Triplets " Caught by the Flash Light. 



that is where our bulbs i one- from. The 

 beds "i:i> bi' protected in winter if any 



better and finer than we, let 

 the blessings of, and unli 



ieed the 

 it with- 



ows our 

 shodtlv 

 A low 



ollhl be 



cent 



rhere 



this 



tion of 

 get in 

 for the 



COTT. 



PRACTICES OF PLANTSMEN. 



, while their 

 them, we be- 

 cet are worth 

 implete satis- 



