Selections of sometimes allowed to intermingle and a full yellow being used 

 Narcissus to show off a pale one. 



The number of varieties is now so great that a selection 

 must be made. At every Spring exhibition new and most 

 beautiful flowers are produced which one longs to buy by the 

 hundred, and on inquiry finds that even a single bulb is a 

 prohibitive price. The following list gives the names of a few 

 of those suitable for massing, and reasonable in price. They 

 are arranged in five groups, as far as possible in the order of 

 their flowering. 



Group I. Large Trumpeted varieties, or " Long Crowns " 



Pseudo-Narcissus. The early English wild one. 

 Princeps. Larger than the former but the same colouring, 



pale yellow perianth and a golden yellow trumpet. 

 Telamonius plenus. Common double Daffodil good for 



effect from a distance. 

 Obvallaris. Self yellow, rather short and not so hardy 



as some. 



Medium Crowns or Star Narcissi 



Queen Bess. The first of the Stella variety. Lemon 

 yellow. 



Group 2. "Long Crowns" 



Horsfieldii, quite one of the finest, with its wonderful 

 blending of palest lemon perianth and very yellow 

 trumpet, and its handsome blue-green foliage. 



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