DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 295 



NARCISSUS.— Daffodil, Jonquil. 



[Named from the youth Narcissus, who, as the poets tell us, was changed in- 

 to this flower.] 



" No gradual bloom is wanting ; from the bud, 

 First born of the spring, to summer's murky tribes : 

 Nor Hyacinths of purest virgin white, 

 Low bent, and blushing inward ; nor Jonquilles 

 Of potent fragrance ; nor Narcissus fair, 

 As o'er the fabled fountain hanging still." 



Mostly hardy, bulbous-rooted plants, many of them too 

 Avell known for description ; all suitable to ornament the 

 garden. They may be planted in October or November, 

 in any good garden soil, about three inches deep, and need 

 not be taken up oftener than is necessary to separate the 

 roots when they become matted together, as they will in 

 three or four years. 



Narcissus biflorus. — The Two-flowered Narcissus, 

 Pale Daffodil, or Primrose-peerless, is of a pale-cream 

 color, with a yellow cup in the center ; a very pretty spe- 

 cies. 



N. Pseudo-XarciSSUS, is the Common Daffodil; there 

 are many varieties ; with a white flower and yellow cup ; 

 a yellow flower and deep-golden cup, a double flower, 

 with several cups, one within another ; the Great Yellow- 

 Incomparable, double and single. The double variety is 

 called Butter and Eggs Narcissus, by the English, and by 

 the Dutch, Orange Phoenix, and is considered the hand- 

 somest of all the varieties. It has large and small petals ; 

 the large, lemon color, filled in with small orange-colored 

 ones. All these varieties flower the last of April. 



N. odorus. — The Great Jonquille, is yellow ; the scent 

 of it so powerful as hardly to be endured. 



N. Jonquilla.— The Common Jonquille, is yellow, and 

 has a cup deeper colored than the petals. There is a va- 

 riety with double flowers. 



