OLD-TIME AND MODERN 5 



year after year, without any special care. 

 Of course congenial soil, location and culture 

 will produce better results than conditions 

 less congenial; deep, cool, well-drained, 

 sandy loam, in a semi-shaded situation, being 

 the desideratum, but, like grass, they will ex- 

 ist almost anywhere, flourishing most luxuri- 

 antly when especially well placed. Correct 

 garden culture produces the finest individual 

 flowers, though the collective wealth of 

 beauty of a colony naturalised on a grassy 

 slope or stream-side bank is a feast for the eye. 

 But it is not exclusively in the open ground 

 that narcissus and daffodils may be grown, 

 flowered and enjoyed. Most of them (the 

 very latest flowering sorts only excluded) are 

 amenable to artificial cultural conditions ; that 

 is, they may be flowered during the winter in 

 conservatory, greenhouse or window, in pots, 

 pans or flats of soil, and some of them even 

 in nothing more than a bowl of moss or 

 gravel and water. 



NARCISSUS AND DAFFODILS IN THE WILD 



Many wild forms of narcissus and daffo- 

 dil, with their crosses, are still to be found 



