How TO PLANT DAFFODILS. 



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dozen or more corms should be set 6 ins. apart and 3 ins. deep in a 



clump. They like peaty soil, or loam thoroughly impregnated with 



leaf mould ; lime rubbish is also 

 good for these dainty little 

 plants. The greenhouse varieties 

 * are very beautiful, and may be 

 raised from seed in late summer, 

 put singly into small pots when 

 they have made 3 or 4 leaves, 

 and transferred to 5 -in. or 6-in. 

 the following summer. Dur- 

 ing hot summer weather they 

 i. Baseof large bulb 5. ins from the surface hld be k t j frame Qr 



2 Top ol larae bulb at ins. from the surface. ~, 



' 3 . Smaller bulb with top 1 1 in. from the cool, shady house. The air 

 surface. should be kept humid by 



syringing frequently. Any 

 flowers which show should be 

 picked out until mid-autumn, 

 when the plants will come 

 gradually into flower and re- 

 main in beauty in a warm 

 greenhouse for several weeks. 

 Most growers raise fresh stock 

 every year, and discard the old 

 plants after blooming, thus 

 treating them as biennials ; but 

 others keep the old plants after 

 flowering. Cyclamens grow 

 slowly in the seedling stage, 

 because they have to form the 

 corm. 



Daffodil (Narcissus). The 

 most popular of all bulbs, and, 

 as we have seen, good alike for 

 beds, borders, rockeries, grass, 



woodland, pots, and bowls. The following are good varieties: 



NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM. 



Early Trumpet Daffodils. 



* Golden Spur 



* Henry Irving 

 *Obvallaris 



Later Trumpet Varieties. 



Cernuus 



* Emperor 



* Empress 

 Glory of Leyden 



*Horsefieldi 

 King Alfred 

 Madame de Graaff 

 Mrs. Walter T. Ware 



Van Waveren's Giant 



Victoria 



Chalice Narcissi. 



Black well 



C. J. Backhouse 

 *Cynosure 



Frank Miles 



Gloria Mundi 



Homespun 



Lady M. Boscawen 

 *Stella superba 

 *Sir Watkin 



Poeticus Varieties. 



Almira 



Ben Jonson 



