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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IX ENGLAND. 



is the olimate of the Scilly Isles, and lately this has been taken 

 advantage of, for growing narcissi. Mr. Dorrien Smith started 

 the culture, and within the last ten years this commerce has 

 steadily increased, and thousands of cut flowers are sent to 

 the London markets.* In the Islands in February there are 

 acres of narcissi in bloom, which are picked and sent off to 

 London. The illustration shows a field of Poet's Narcissus, 

 and there are also quantities of the polyanthus varieties 

 grow r n. The daffodil is a flower which has come prominently 



NARCISSUS IN THE SCILLY ISLES. 

 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY GIBSON, PENZANCE. 



into notice of late years. Each type has been enormously 

 developed, some of the new Trumpet varieties being of special 



beauty, f 



The spring garden now is no longer only a few tulips and 



*" Thirty-and-a-half tons of flowers, principally narcissi, or 3,258,000 

 blooms in 4849 boxes, reached Penzance from the Scilly Isles yesterday. "- 

 Daily Telegraph, February 26th, 1896. 



f Ye Narcissus, a Daffodil Flower. By Barre, 1884. 



