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and think that one or other of the names should he expunged from 

 lists. N. minor. — This is a diminutive Daffodil, and well worth a 

 place in every garden. It does not exceed four or five inches in height, 

 even when most luxuriant. The flowers are bright yellow, and the 

 foliage is deeply glaucous : it is invaluable for edging lines or clumps 

 in the front line of flower-borders. N. Sabinii is one of the grandest 

 and most striking of the group. The foliage is broad, massive, and 

 erect. The petals are long and broad, overlapping each other, and 

 deep canary -yellow ; the golden crown is long and very wide, expand- 

 ing, and slightly re flexed at the mouth, and crimped on the margin. 

 This is without any superior in the yellow Daffodil single- flowered 

 section : there is a massiveness and grandeur about the whole plant 

 that is only approached in two other varieties that have come under 

 my notice — and they are Emperor and Empress ; but both these, 

 while they are in no way superior to Sabinii, are too near in character 

 to be desirable in the same collection — that is, if it is to be distinctive 

 in its components. Amongst the double-flowered forms of the Daffo- 

 dil section I shall only notice two, which are the best that I have met 

 with. They are telamonius plenus — a fine golden- yellow, double in 

 the most emphatic sense, and more resembling a double African Mari- 

 gold than a Narcissus— and Pseudo-Narcissus grandiplenus, similar in 

 style to the preceding, but less golden than yellow. The name is 

 evidently the creation of some enthusiastic amateur, whose love of the 

 sort tided him over the fear of dislocating his jaw. Pseudo-Narcissus 

 is bad enough to pronounce with any degree of elegance and ease, but 

 followed by such a quadrisyllable as grandiplenus, pronunciation 

 becomes hazardous. N. poeticus being one of the latest of the genus 

 to appear in flower, generally well on towards the end of May, or 

 even in the beginning of June, in the north, is one of the best worth 

 cultivating, independently of its great beauty and elegance. It is 

 inferior to none in its attractive elegance ; while in the delicacy of its 

 perfume it surpasses perhaps every other species in the genus. The 

 double form of this lovely species is a very useful one, being as frag- 

 rant as a Gardenia, and not inferior to that flower in shape, and at the 

 same time more durable, being less liable also to become discoloured 

 than it. It is one of the best cut-flowers of its season. JV. Tazeita, 

 the parent of the Polyanthus Narcissus, is so distinct in its character 

 that it deserves a place in every collection. Were it for no other 

 reason than its early-flowering quality, it is worthy of being culti- 

 vated ; but it is also a very fragrant sort, and offers a good many 

 varieties of considerable elegance and beauty. 



Bulbocodium vernum. — A very beautiful plant in the mass, 

 Crocus-like in the form of its flowers, and also in its habit of pushing 



