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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



FIG. 654. NARCISSUS BURBIDGEI. 



Bnrbldgel. Perianth clear white ; cup margined with cinnabar- 

 red. Very early, and useful for cutting. See Fig. 654. 



Conspicnus. Perianth sulphur- white, passing off white ; cup 

 conspicuously edged with orange-scarlet, and expanded. 



Crown Prince. Perianth creamy-white, broad ; cup canary, 

 margined with orange. Foliage strong, erect. 



Crown Princess. Perianth white ; cup canary, margined with 

 orange. Foliage strong, drooping. Very distinct. 



Edith BelL Perianth alabaster- white, changing to pure white ; 

 cup canary, margined with orange. Very distinct 



Ethel. Perianth primrose ; cup yellow. 



Falstaff. Perianth white ; cup lemon. 



Gracilis. Perianth sulphur-white ; cup plaited and tinted with 

 orange, spreading. 



Guinever. Perianth white, compact ; cup canary, frilled. 



John Bain. Perianth large white ; cup citron. 



Little Dirk. Perianth passing from yellow to creamy-white, 

 short, neat, compact; cup conspicuously edged orange-scarlet. 

 The smallest of the group ; very beautiful. 



Little John. Perianth creamy-white, passing to white, compact ; 

 cup yellow, small, plaited. 



Mary. Perianth white ; cup suffused with orange, expanded. 



Model. Perianth clear white, compact ; cup stained with orange, 

 frilled. 



Ossian. Perianth white ; cup yellow, large, broad expanding. 



Primrose Star. Perianth primrose, neat ; cup yellow. 



Princess Louise. Perianth white, sharply pointed ; cup tinged 

 orange, expanded. 



St. John's Beauty. Perianth white, large ; cup lemon, tinged 

 with orange. 



Sulphur Star. Perianth sulphur- white ; cup canary, edged with 

 orange. 



Thomas Moore Absolon. Perianth white; cup citron, ele- 

 gantly expanded. 



Vanessa. Verianth yellow, passing to primrose, neat, compact ; 

 cup yellow, expanded. A perfect flower. 



POETICUS (THE PURPLE-RINGED POET'S DAFFODILS). 



Marvel. Perianth pure white; cup margined with saffron. A 

 small, bladder-like, distended spathe, about Jin. long, appears 

 weeks before the flower, and out of this, in due course, emerges 

 the blossom. Very beautiful, and distinct. 



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FIG. 655. NARCISSUS POETICLS ORNATUS. 



^ Perianth pure white, broad, and well formed ; cup 



margined with scarlet. Early and very fine ; one of the best and 

 most useful. See Fig. 655. 



Narcissus continued. 



Tripodalis. Perianth pure white, reflexed ; cup deeply margined 

 scarlet. 



POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS (THE BUNCH-FLO\VERED DAFFODILS). 



Apollo. Perianth primrose ; cup deep yellow. 



Bathurst. Perianth primrose ; cup orange. 



Bazelman Major. Perianth white, broad, large ; cup stained 



orange. 

 Florence Nightingale. Perianth white ; cup deep orange. 



Extra fine ; dwarf. 



Gloriosus. Perianth white ; cup orange. 

 Grand Monarque. Perianth white, broad ; cup yellow. 

 Grand Soleil d'Or. Perianth rich yellow ; cup deep orange. 

 Her Majesty. Perianth white, broad ; cup orange. 

 Jaune Supreme. Perianth primrose ; cup orange. 

 Lacticolor. Perianth pale lemon ; cup yellow. 

 Louis le Grand. Perianth white ; cup sulphur. 

 Paper White. Pure white. The earliest and most valuable for 



very early forcing. 



Phyllis. Perianth yellow ; cup orange. 

 Sir Isaac Newton. Perianth yellow; cup orange. 

 Sir Walter Scott. Perianth white ; cup yellow. 

 Staten General. Perianth white ; cup yellow. 

 The Scilly White. Perianth white ; cup sulphur- white. 

 White Perfection. Perianth white; cup sulphur- white. Fine 



new variety. 



MONSTROSITIES. 

 Jonquilla plenns (Double Yellow Jonquil). Flowers of a 



rich, full yellow, small, elegant, richly-scented. 

 Poeticus patellaris pleno albo cum croceo. This is the 



large Gardenia-flowered Double White Daffodil, seen in most 



Tazetta nobilissimns. Flowers white, with yellow cup. This 



variety is cultivated by the Dutch. 

 Tazetta Bomanus (Double Roman Narcissus). Flowers white, 



with orange cup. 



NARCISSUS PLY (Merodon clavipes). This two- 

 winged Fly is rather troublesome to Continental gar- 

 deners, as it feeds in Narcissus bulbs, devouring the 

 inner parts. It is, however, too rare in England to do 

 much harm, or to call for a long notice here. It is 

 nearly Jin. long, rather like a hive bee in hairiness 

 and form, but with the end of the body blunt. Its 

 colour varies so much that several of the varieties were 

 named and described as distinct species. The thorax is 

 usually yellowish-brown or whitish in front, black be- 

 hind; the abdomen pale at the base, brownish-yellow or 

 rust-coloured behind. Sometimes the back is metallic- 

 green. The eyes are hairy, and almost cover the front 

 of the head, meeting in front in the males, but separated 

 by a yellow stripe in the females ; and there is a golden- 

 yellow tuft of hair at the base of each antenna. The 

 legs are black, and the last pair have the thighs thick, 

 and each bears a tooth near the tip. The grub is like 

 a rolling-pin in form, wrinkled, greyish-yellow, with a 

 row of backward-directed bristles round each ring. It 

 eats out the centres of the bulbs, and, when full-fed, 

 crawls out, and changes into an oval brown pupa in 

 the soil, near the top of the bulb. 



Within this present year, Dr. Eitzema Bos has pub- 

 lished, in the Archives of the Teylerian Museum, at 

 Haarlem, an exhaustive memoir (of fifty pages, 8vo, 

 with illustrations), upon the Narcissus Fly, under the 

 name Merodon equestris. He mentions that it was in- 

 troduced with bulbs from the South of Europe into 

 Holland, where, so long as forty years since, it made 

 itself noticeable by injuring Daffodils. It seems quite 

 naturalised in that country, though its numbers are 

 markedly diminished by severe winters. Besides the 

 mechanical injury to the plants, Dr. Bos finds that the 

 larvae excrete an acid, which causes the decay of the 

 tissues around the burrows, and the plants suffer much 

 from the wound being thus extended. 



Owing to the mode of life of the larvae, it is very 

 difficult to employ any good remedy for the exterinina- 



