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" are a gradation from semi-transparent outward 

 petals, which are positively greenish in them- 

 selves, and still more by transparence owing to 

 green leaves around, to the depth of yellow in 

 the womb of the flowers, where green influences 

 are excluded, but yellow ones multiplied by the 

 number of the petals. So in the heart the color 

 is an intense orange cadmium, not dark, but 

 most intense a color that we remember all the 

 year round." Hamerton says this in reference 

 to Wordsworth's dance of the daffodils, and thus 

 had pseudo-narcissus, or the common Lent lily, 

 in mind, which has a pale perianth and rich yel- 

 low trumpet, and which is extremely difficult to 

 cultivate in its native country. 



Cynosure, another of the Leedsii hybrids, and 

 Mary Anderson, single of the familiar orange 

 Phoenix, are both strikingly beautiful. The for- 

 mer has a large primrose perianth changing to 

 white, and an orange -scarlet cup ; the latter, 

 a silver perianth and a cup of lively orange- 

 scarlet. 



What with most flowers deteriorates from 

 their beauty only increases the attractiveness of 

 many of the daffodils, the fading perianth often 

 adding a chastened beauty to the passing flower. 

 Would that our pretty wives and sweethearts 

 could all grow old so charmingly, or that woman 



