4 DAFFODILS NARCISSUS 



What pleasurable associations the very 

 mention of their names uncurtains among 

 those of us who have been fortunate enough 

 to be brought up in "old-fashioned garden 1 * 

 environment. We recall our annual spring de- 

 light in watching the sturdy development 

 from mother earth almost before winter's 

 snow had melted of groups of spear-like 

 leaves, followed by big, fat buds that soon 

 unsheathed their blossoms of silver and gold. 



WHERE TO GROW THEM 



The narcissus and daffodils may be success- 

 fully grown in so many locations, and under 

 so many different conditions of soil, and cli- 

 mate, that we need scarcely ask "where may 

 they be grown ?" Their freedom from cul- 

 tural complications is, indeed, one of their 

 chief merits. With the exception of a few of 

 the Mediterranean and Oriental types that 

 love warm, dry hillsides or well-drained 

 rockeries, the great majority of varieties is 

 nearly as hardy as rocks, and will grow, thrive 

 and flower almost anywhere in garden beds, 

 in herbaceous borders and shrubberies, in 

 grassy turf of lawn, meadow or woodland, 



