PLATE I 



A CENTURY-OLD FIELD OF DAFFODILS 



On the old Lalor homestead near Trenton, N. J., the old English trumpet daffodil 

 (N. Pseudo-Narcissus) has been growing wild for a hundred years. When com- 

 fortably naturalised, the season of flowering is somewhat earlier than in ordinary 

 garden cultivation and there is always bloom in this field by the 25th of March 



