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with pebbles, the latter being employed for the 

 roots to adhere to. But to produce Chinese 

 effects we must have the Chinese narcissus, a 

 splendid species, with immense, vigorous bulbs. 

 The bulbs should be started in their receptacle 

 with water about five weeks before they are 

 wanted to flower, and placed in the dark until 

 root-growth is made. They may then be moved 

 to a sunny window, requiring no further care 

 beyond keeping up the supply of water. They 

 may even be grown in full light from the start. 

 The Chinese tazetta, thus treated, throws up 

 huge leaves, and stiff flower-stems two feet or 

 more in height. There are two varieties, with 

 single and double flowers, somewhat resembling 

 in individual flowers Grand Prtmo and the double 

 Roman tazetta, though of less substance and 

 less highly perfumed. 



Many of the lovely English hybrids we can 

 not grow with success, owing to our rigorous 

 climate. They are inversely like some of our 

 wild flowers in England, which miss the frost 

 and long season of rest, as some of the daffodils 

 with us lack the genial climate they are accus- 

 tomed to. Still, if many varieties refuse to be- 

 come acclimated, there are very many others 

 that are readily grown. Let us, then, follow the 

 admirable precept of Delille : 



