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these lovely flowers. They are truly starlike and seem 

 to shed a soft radiance about them. 



Of the Incomparabilis group there are Beauty, C. J. 

 Backhouse, Cynosure, Frank Miles, Lulworth, Queen 

 Bess, Sir Watkin, Stella Superba, and Will Scarlet. 



Among the Barrii group are Albatros, Conspicuus, 

 Falstaff , Oriflamme, and Seagull. The cups of these are 

 red rimmed. 



The Eucharis-flowered or Leedsii group are softly 

 coloured and delicately fragrant. Ariadne, Duchess of 

 Westminster, Katherine Spurrell, Mary Magdelin de 

 Graff, Minnie Hume, and Mrs. Langtry. 



Besides these we must have the little Jonquils or 

 Rush-leaved Narcissi, with several bright yellow, sweetly 

 scented flowers to a stalk. Of these, N. Jonquilla and 

 N.' odorus (or campernella) are the only ones we have. 

 The bulbs are very small and the flower stems slender 

 so they should be planted with a generous hand. 



The glistening white circle of petals and scarlet "eye" 

 of the Poet's Narcissus is well known and beloved. The 

 old Pheasant's Eye is very inexpensive and one of the 

 best bulbs for naturalizing, but of late years some very 

 fine varieties of this type have been given to the world. 

 Of those, some of the less expensive are, Almira, Glory, 

 Herrick, Minerva. 



The Poet's Narcissus is one parent of a new race 

 called Poetaz, having several rather thick-fleshed 

 flowers on a stem, the cups of which are orange or gold 



