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.1 HISTORY OF CAR DEM NO l\ ES GLAND. 



is the climate of the Scilly Isles, and lately this has been taken 

 advantage of, for jj^rowinj^f narcissi. Mr. Dorrien Smith started 

 the culture, and within the last ten years this commerce has 

 steadily increased, and thousands of cut flowers are sent to 

 the London markets.* In the Islands in I'cbruary there are 

 acres of narcissi in bloom, which are picked and sent off to 

 London. The illustration shows a field of Poet's Narcissus, 

 and there arc also quantities of the polyanthus varieties 

 grown. The daffodil is a flcwer which has come prominently 



NARCISSUS IN THE SCILLV ISLES. 

 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY GIBSON, PENZANCE. 



into notice of late years. Each type has been enormously 

 developed, some of the new Trumpet varit-ties being of special 



beauty, t 



The spring garden now is no longer only a few tulips and 



*" Thirty-and-a-half tons of flowers, principally narcissi, or 3,258,000 

 blooms in 4849 boxes, reached Penzance from the Scilly Isles yesterday." — 

 Daily Telegraph, February 26th, 1896. 



t Ye Narcissus, a Daffodil Floiver. By IJarre. 1S84. 



