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between N. Pseudo-Narcissus and N. Jonquilla. Some years 

 later he writes that this opinion was verified : " Such plants 

 having been raised both by myself and by Mr Trevor, Alcock, 

 near Caermarthen, and having flowered, they have shown that 

 the Linnaean N. odorus the genus Philogyne in all its varia- 

 tions, is cross-bred between the common Daffodil and the Jon- 

 quil." 



Some very beautiful seedling and hybrid Narcissi have been 

 raised by Mr Edward Leeds of Manchester, many of which 

 are very distinct. Among them are hybrids between N. Pseudo- 

 Narcissus and N. incomparabilis, which possess the long corona 

 of the first parent, and the more fully expanded and nar- 

 rower segments of the latter. Hybrids between N. incompara- 

 bilis and N. poeticus are also pretty, the variations in form and 

 tint being very numerous. Hybrids between N. poeticus and 

 N. Macleai closely resemble the latter; and some seedlings 

 from these again have turned out very fine forms, fully three 

 times the size of the typical N. Macleai, and some have very 

 bright vermilion-tinted cups. Hybrids between N. incom- 

 parabilis and N. montanus are intermediate in form, and very 

 delicately coloured, having pale sulphur cups much frilled 

 around the rim. Herbert gives the following particulars re- 

 specting the fertility and influence of the last-named species : 



" The pollen of N. montanus, whether it be a natural plant 

 or not, is very fertile. I have flowered seedlings from N. 

 minor by it, and very neat and pretty things they are. I have 

 also flowered seedlings from N. poeticus by it, and they are 

 remarkable, having the widely-expanded limb of N. poeticus 

 with the drooping posture and long cup of N. montanus, in 

 one of them a little tinged with red. This is a strange circum- 

 stance. A plant widely different from any other species ; cul- 

 tivated above 200 years; not since found as far as I can 

 learn where it was supposed to grow or elsewhere, except in 

 gardens ; producing no seed by its own pollen usually, if ever, 

 yet very ready to fertilise its neighbours, and to be fertilised 

 by a cross-bred plant. If it be cross-bred, I should say that 

 N. dubia and N. candidissimus (N. moschatus) are its probable 

 parents. From N. Pseudo-Narcissus and N. minor I have 

 many crosses by N. Tazetta, especially the variety called 

 States-general by the Dutch. N. Pseudo-Narcissus by States- 

 general produces a very handsome vigorous two-flowered 

 yellow Diomedes (Haworth), with some little variety of shape 

 and tint. 



" There is ample room for further experiments in this race 

 of plants, from which much vernal beauty for our gardens and 



