42 DAFFODILS NARCISSUS 



these melting snows will indicate how much 

 the normal daffodil flowering season may be 

 extended. By putting some bulbs of your extra 

 earlies in the early ground, mulching but light- 

 ly and removing same early, and by planting 

 some extra lates in the late ground, covering 

 deeply, say with six inches of soil, and retain- 

 ing the mulch as long as possible, the desired 

 result is assured. This fact was brought for- 

 cibly to my notice by accident soon after I 

 commenced growing daffodils, although at 

 that time my garden area was only a 20x30 

 foot yard. The bed on the south side of the 

 fence was fully three weeks earlier than that 

 on the north side, and bulbs of the same vari- 

 ety, planted on both sides, commenced flower- 

 ing three weeks apart. 



When one's enthusiasm in daffodil culture 

 leads to experiments in crossing types and rais- 

 ing new seedlings, one will want to cross vari- 

 eties that may flower one or more weeks apart. 

 By reversing the directions just given and 

 planting the late sort in the early ground, 

 and the early sort in the late ground, one can 

 bring the two in flower simultaneously so that 

 they may be hybridized without resorting to 



