A Little Maryland Garden 15 
apart to show a touch of orange, is a beautiful 
cut flower. I add to my stock every year 
some new varieties, and put them not only 
in the borders, but in unoccupied nooks 
and corners of the garden. I must have them 
in quantities, both to nod in the spring 
breezes and to cut for the house. I have 
now the following sorts: 
Empress Leedsii 
Emperor Stella 
Horsfieldii Grandee 
Orange Phoenix Poeticus 
Von Sion i Ornatus 
Mrs. Langtry Princeps Maximus. 
They are all lovely. The only failure I 
have had was the alba plena odorata, and 
I was warned beforehand that it rarely 
bloomed in this country. 
I have been criticised for speaking of the 
long trumpet varieties as daffodils, instead 
of calling them narcissus. Some people 
have a passion for being correct, but the 
name of daffodil is endeared to us by poetry. 
We hear March called ‘‘the roaring moon of 
