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ornatus and recurvus, naturalise perfectly, 

 and of recent years bulbs have been dug 

 on the Pyrenees by the thousand for 

 naturalisation. They are so variable in 

 habit, size, shape, and colour that any 

 number of varieties could be selected from 

 them. The June-flowering double form 

 of AT", patellaris, or Gardenia Narcissus, is 

 very fine. It does well on sandy deep 

 borders. It is a shy flowerer, and many 

 of its buds go blind, so that half the stock 

 should be transplanted every year in 

 August. N. stellaris, the latest single 

 form of N. poeticus, flowers in June. 

 Some very fine and shapely seedlings of 

 N. poeticus have been raised by Mr Engle- 

 heart. 



N. PSEUDO-NARCISSUS (Common Daffo- 

 dil). There are several hundred varieties 

 of the Common Daffodil, either wild or 

 cultivated. The only native of Britain is 

 the common English kind, which extends 

 from Cornwall to Fife, and is specially 

 plentiful in the south-eastern counties. 

 In Normandy, Daffodils by millions light 

 up the woods in April, while many fine 

 forms are wild in Spain and in the Pyre- 

 nean region, and the richest of golden 

 Daffodils come from Spain and Portugal. 

 The Rev. C. Wolley Dod found N. maxi- 

 mus growing between Dax and Bayonne, 

 probably naturalised. Nearly all Daffo- 

 dils do well on grass, if the soil be at all 

 suitable ; and as regards our wild English 

 Daffodil, the grass is the only place in 

 which to grow it permanently. Daffodils 

 are usually divided into three groups 

 first, golden Daffodils, such as N. maxi- 

 mus, Tenby, and spurius ; secondly, 

 bicolors, such as John Horsfield, Empress, 

 Grandee, etc. ; thirdly, sulphur and white 

 kinds, such as Exquisite, and the white 

 Daffodils, such as the wild Pyrenean and 

 N. moschatus. Nearly all the golden 

 kinds are robust and easily grown, and 

 the bicolor group are even more so, but, 

 speaking broadly, the delicate sulphur 

 and white sorts are tender and unsatis- 

 factory, except on the most favourable 

 soils. The following are the best in each 

 group : 



Golden Daffodil Group. A,bscissus 

 (muticus), Ard Righ, Emperor, Countess 

 of Annesley, Bastemil, Captain Nelson, 

 spurius, coronatus (General Gordon), Gol- 

 den Spur, Distinction, obvallaris, Henry 

 Irving, Glory of Leyden, Golden Prince, 

 Golden Plover, Golden Vase, Her Majesty, 

 John Nelson, spurius, major, maximus, 

 M. J. Berkeley, and Mrs Elwes. Nanus 

 and minor are dwarf varieties, minimus 

 is the smallest of all the Daffodils. 

 Shakespeare, Hodsock's Price, Fred. 

 Moore, Wide Awake, Marchioness of 

 Headfort, P. R. Barr, rugilobus, Santa 

 Maria, Samson, Sir W. Harcourt, Town- 

 shend, Boscawen, Stanfield, Croom a Boo 

 {Ard Righ with a frilled trumpet), Weardale 

 Perfection, " Ellen Willmott," Monarch, 



and many others are not as yet much 

 grown. 



Bicolor Group. Empress, John Hors- 

 field, Grandee, Dean Herbert, Michael 

 Foster, Alfred Parsons, George C. Barr, 

 Harrison Weir, J. B. M. Camm, John 

 Parkinson, Mrs Walter Ware, Mad. 

 Plemp, T. A. Dorien Smith, and varii- 

 formis. Carrie Plemp, Princess Colibri, 

 Duchess of Teck. and Victoria are new 

 kinds. 



White and Sulphur-flowered Group. 

 Moschatus, albicans (Leda), cernuus (very 

 variable), Cecilia de Graaff, Colleen Bawn, 

 cernuus pulcher, C. W. Cowan, Dr Hogg, 

 Exquisite, J. G. Baker (volutus), F. W. 



Hybrid Narcissus Snowdrop. 



Burbidge, Lady Grosvenor, Galatea, Mme. 

 de Graaff, Mrs F. W. Burbidge, Mrs 

 J. B. M. Camm, Mrs Thompson, Helen 

 Falkiner, pallidus pvcecox (the variable 

 sulphur Daffodil of Biarritz and Bayonne), 

 pallidus asturicus, Princess Ida, Sarnian 

 Belle, tortuosus, Wm. Goldring, W. P. 

 Milner, Minnie Warren, Countess of 

 Desmond, Robert Boyle, Silver Bar, 

 Mrs Vincent. 



The best of the double Daffodils are 

 Telamonius plenus (Van Sion), very 

 free and robust, naturalised everywhere ; 

 double English, minor plenus (Rip van 

 Winkle) ; lobularis plenus; Scoticus plenus; 

 plenissimus (Parkinson's great rose double); 

 capax plenus (Eystettensis), an exqui- 

 sitely pretty and pale six-rowed double, 

 but requiring a warm sandy soil, and 

 remarkable as being a distinct double, 

 of which the single type is unknown ; 

 Cernuus, C. bicinctus ; the last do well in 

 warm, stony soils, and, like other delicate 

 kinds, enjoy the company of tree, shrub, 

 or Rose roots. 



Johnstoni (Johnston's hybrid Daffodil) 

 was found by Mr A. W. Tait near Oporto 

 in 1885, and figured in Bot. Mag., 7012 ; 

 it is a natural hybrid, between N. pseudo- 

 narcissus and N. triandrus, and is variable, 



