52 DAFFODILS NARCISSUS 



neus groups, a dozen or more bulbs may well 

 be grown in a five or six-inch pot. On the 

 other hand, the big-bulbing Tazetta varieties 

 can only go one bulb to a six-inch pot. The 

 great majority of the trumpet and crown 

 daffodils can be planted 3 to 5 bulbs to a six- 

 inch pot. Plant only one variety in a pot; 

 different varieties of different heights and not 

 flowering simultaneously give an unsatisfac- 

 tory result. 



The pots to be used must be washed clean; 

 if old ones; and if they are new, soak them 

 thoroughly in water so that the pots them- 

 selves will not dry out the soil after potting. 

 Before putting in the soil, provide for good 

 drainage by placing two or three pieces of 

 broken pots over the hole in the bot- 

 tom of the pot, to prevent it from getting 

 stopped up. Cover this drainage with a small 

 layer of sphagnum moss, cocoanut fibre refuse 

 or old fibrous roots that have been shaken out 

 of sod; then fill in with soil until, when it is 

 shaken down and a bulb set on it, the top of 

 the bulb is almost up to the top of the pot. 



Place the requisite number of bulbs in po- 

 sition, and fill in with soil to within half an 



