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There are a great many varieties of these Trumpet Daffo- 

 dils, the differences between them being shown in the varying 

 colors of trumpet and perianth, as well as in the shape and 



size of the blossom as a whole. 

 The different sorts vary greatly as to 

 earliness, so that one may easily 

 have a long season of flowering by 

 selecting varieties which bloom in 

 succession. 



Princeps is one of the earliest and 

 most satisfactory of these sorts, 

 either for in-door or out-door plant- 

 ing. It is a beautiful flower, with 

 a light sulphur yellow per- 

 ianth expanding about 

 three inches, and a clear 

 yellow trumpet reaching a 

 height of more than one 

 inch and of good length. 

 The bulbs are inexpensive. 

 Spurius, or single Von 

 Sion, is an all-yellow vari- 

 ety somewhat less attrac- 

 tive than Princeps, partly 

 because the flower stalks 

 are likely to be rather 

 short, although this doubt- 

 less depends a good deal upon the size of the bulbs 

 and the treatment they receive. Trumpet Major is 

 a golden-yellow variety, which has been very largely 

 grown, but now seems to be generally replaced by 



