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pendent flowers, purely, warmly white, with their orange 
markings, are to me far more heartening than any 
Galanthus that ever sent up gelid-looking leaves and 
opened its cold-coloured frost-flowers. Leucotwm aestivum 
is only less valuable than his earlier relations because he 
comes at a less lonely time, when such as he are less 
prized, and the exquisite Leucoiwm autumnale (or Acis 
autumnalis), the Pink Snowdrop from Gibraltar and the 
South, has never done any good here. Those Southerly 
creatures don’t; I once had a present of the very rare 
Narcissus viridiflorus from Gibraltar, but nothing more 
ever came of it, despite attentions beyond number. 
