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Daniel was photographed with his ' family.' After this 

 impressive ceremony the old patriarch headed the pro- 

 cession and they all went to Wiggie to offer their respects 

 to Mr. Trower and his brother. Men such as Daniel 

 Gumbrell do not die, for they live still in the hearts of 

 their old masters. 



At Wiggie the old ' Wilmer's Double daffodil ' {Nar- 

 cissus Tslamonius pknus) is grown in abundance. This 

 daffodil is thus described in the Paradisus (1629). ' The 

 stalke riseth to be two foote high, bearing at the 

 toppe one great faire double flower, each leafe where- 

 of is twice as large and broad as the former, diversly 

 intermixt with a rowe of paler and a rowe of deeper yellow 

 leaves, wholly dispersed throughout the flower, the pale 

 colour as well as the deeper yellow.' Of the origin of this 

 daffodil, which has now been grown in our gardens for 

 over 300 years, Parkinson gives the following interesting 

 account. ' We first it had from Vincent Sion, borne in 

 Flanders, dwelling on the Bank side, in his lives time, but 

 now dead, an industrious and worthy lover of faire flowers, 

 who cherished it in his Garden for many yeares, without 

 bearing of any flowers untill the yeare 1620, that having 

 flowred with him (and hee not knowing of whom he 

 received it, nor having ever seene the like flower before) 

 he sheweth it to Mr. John de Franqueville, of whom he 

 supposed he had received it (for from beyond Sea he never 

 received any) who findeth it to bee a kinde never seene 

 or knowne to us before, caused him to respect it the more, 

 as it is well worthy. And Mr. George Wilmer of Stratford 

 Bowe Esquire in his lives time having likewise received it 

 of him (as my selfe did also) would needes appropriate it 

 to himself e, as if he were the first founder thereof, and 



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