HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS 



By the REV. H. PUREFOY FITZGERALD, F.L.S. 

 With Photographs by HENRY IRVING 



THE FLOWERS OF THE WOODLANDS 



THE. DAFFODIL. 



THE woodlands provide us with the 

 choicest of our wild flowers, not 

 because of their rarity but on 

 account of their ])rofusion and their 

 great but simple beauty. Beginning 

 with the car])et of Wild Daffodils in 

 the early spring, to be succeeded by 

 masses of Primroses and Wood Anemones, 

 and after these the Bluebells, making 

 the ground appear a sheet of blue colour, 

 what can be found more entrancing to 

 the lover of flowers than a stroll in 

 the spring and early summer through 



such a copse where this succession of 

 flowers is to be found ? 



THE DAFFODIL 



The Daffodil, or Daffy-dowTi-dilly 

 (Narcissus pseudo-narcissus), is one of 

 the earliest heralds of spring, and as 

 such, apart from all other reasons, is a 

 most welcome sight. The pity is that 

 it is not more common, for it is somewhat 

 local, and it has disap])eared from many 

 of its former haunts, owing to the ruthless 

 digging up of its roots for transplanting. 



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