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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
LPP 
Fig. 654. NARCISSUS BURBIDGEI. 
Perianth clear white; cup margined with cinnabar- 
red, Very early, and useful for cutting. See Fig. 654. 
us. Perianth sulphur-white, passing off white; cup 
conspicuously edged with orange-scarlet, and expand 
Crown Prince. Perianth creamy-white, broad; cup canary, 
margined with orange. Foliage strong, erect. 
Crown Princess. Perianth white; cup canary, margined with 
orange. Foliage strong, drooping. Very distinct. 
Edith Bell. Perianth alabaster-white, changing to pure white ; 
cup canary, margined with orange. Very distinct. 
Ethel. Perianth primrose; cup yellow. 
Falstaff. Perianth white; cup lemon. 
Gracilis, Perianth sulphur-white ; cup plaited and tinted with 
orange, spreading, y 
Guinever. Perianth white, compact ; cup canary, frilled. 
John Bain. Perianth large white ; cup citron. 
Little Dirk. Perianth passing from yellow to creamy-white, 
short, neat, compact; cup conspicuously edged orange-scarlet. 
The smallest of the group; very beautiful. 
Little John. Perianth creamy-white, passing to white, compact; 
cup yellow, small, plaited. e 
Mary. Perianth white; cup suffused with orange, expanded. 
Madol. Perianth clear white, compact; cup stained with orange, 
Ossian. Perianth white; cup yellow, large, broad expanding. 
Primrose Star. Perianth primrose, neat; cup yellow. 
Princess Louise. Perianth white, sharply pointed ; cup tinged 
orange, expanded. i 
St. John’s Beauty. Perianth white, large; cup lemon, tinged 
with orange. 
Sulphur Star. Perianth sulphur-white; cup canary, edged with 
orange. 
Thomas Moore Absolon. Perianth white; cup citron, ele- 
gantly expanded. : 
Vanessa. VPerianth yellow, passing to primrose, neat, compact; 
cup yellow, expanded. A perfect flower. 
Poxricus (THE PURPLE-RINGED POET'S DAFFODILS). 
Marvel. Perianth pure white; cup margined with saffron. A 
small, bladder-like, distended spathe, about lin. long, appears 
weeks before the flower, and out of this, in due course, emerges 
the blossom. Very beautiful, and distinct. 
FIE. 655. NARCISSUS POETICUS ORNATUS. 
a Ornatus. Perianth pure white, broad, and well fermed; eup 
1 . nes; ous and 
Narcissus - continued. 
PoLYANTHUS NARCISSUS (THE BUNCH-FLOWERED DAFFODILS). 
Apollo. Perianth primrose; cup deep yellow. 
Bathurst. Perianth primrose; cup orange. 
Bazelman Major. Perianth white, broad, large; cup stained 
orange. 
Florence Nightingale. Perianth white; cup deep orange. 
Extra fine; dwarf. 
Gloriosus. Perianth white; cup orange. 
Grand Monarque. Perianth white, broad; cup yellow. 
Grand Soleil d'Or. Perianth rich yellow; cup deep orange. 
Her Majesty. Perianth white, broad; cup orange. 
Jaune Supreme. Perianth primrose; cup orange. 
Lacticolor. Perianth pale lemon ; cup yellow. 
Louis le Grand. Perianth white ; cup sulphur. 
Paper White. Pure white. The earliest and most valuable for 
very early forcing. 
Phyllis, Perianth yellow; cup orange. 
Sir Isaac Newton, Perianth yellow; cup orange. 
Sir Walter Scott. Perianth white ; cup yellow. * 
Staten General. Perianth white; cup yellow. 
The Scilly White. Perianth white; cup sulphur-white. 
White Perfection. Perianth white; cup sulphur-white. Fine 
new variety. 
MONSTROSITIES, 
onquilla plenus (Double Yellow Jonquil). Flowers of a 
rich, full yellow, small, elegant, richly-scented. 
Poeticus patellaris pleno albo cum croceo. This is the 
large Gardenia-flowered Double White Daffodil, seen in most 
gardens, 
atta nobilissimus. Flowers white, with yellow cup. This 
variety is cultivated by the Dutch. 
Tazetta Romanus (Double Roman Narcissus), Flowers white, 
with orange cup. 
NARCISSUS FLY (Merodon clavipes). This two- 
| winged Fly is rather troublesome to Continental gar- 
‘| deners, as it feeds in Narcissus bulbs, devouring the 
inner parts. It is, however, too rare in England to do 
much harm, or to call for a long notice here. It is 
nearly zin. long, rather like a hive bee in hairiness 
and form, but with the end of the body blunt. Its 
colour varies so much that several of the varieties were 
named and described as distinct species. The thorax is 
usually yellowish-brown or whitish in front, black be- 
hind; the abdomen pale at the base, brownish-yellow or 
rust-coloured behind. Sometimes the back is metallic- 
green. The eyes are hairy, and almost cover the front 
of the head, meeting in front in the males, but separated 
by a yellow stripe in the females; and there is a golden- 
yellow tuft of hair at the base of each antenna. The 
legs are black, and the last pair have the thighs thick, 
and each bears a tooth near the tip. The grub is like 
a rolling-pin in form, wrinkled, greyish-yellow, with a 
row of backward-directed bristles round each ring. It 
eats out the centres of the bulbs, and, when full-fed, 
crawls out, and changes into an oval brown pupa in 
the soil, near the top of the bulb. ¢ 
a Within this present year, Dr. Ritzema Bos has pub- 
lished, in the Archives of the Teylerian Museum, at 
Haarlem, an exhaustive memoir (of fifty pages, 8vo, 
with illustrations), upon the Narcissus Fly, under the 
name Merodon equestris. He mentions that it was in- 
troduced with bulbs from the South of Europe into 
itself noticeable by injuring Daffodils. It seems quite 
naturalised in that country, though its numbers are 
markedly diminished by severe winters. Besides the 
mechanical iajury to the plants, Dr. Bos finds that the 
larve excrete an acid, which causes the decay of the 
tissues around the burrows, and the plants suffer much 
from the wound being thus extended. 
_Owing to the mode of life of the larve, it is very 
difficult to employ any good remedy for the extermina- 
Tripodalis. Perianth pure white, reflexed; cup deeply margined 
scarlet. 
Holland, where, so long as forty years since, it made 
