CHAPTER XVI 



THE HARDY CLUSTER-FLOWERED 

 NARCISSUS 



IT is only within the last few years that the 

 beauty, fragrance and variety of the bouquet- 

 like heads of flowers of the tender Tazettas 

 have had a counterpart for our Northern gar- 

 dens. This has become possible through the 

 new hardy cluster-flowered hybrids, fully 

 equalling and in some respects surpassing their 

 more tender colleagues in size of flowers, 

 beauty, colouring, and form. The new poe- 

 taz and tridymus varieties have proven as 

 robust and ruggedly hardy as any wild North- 

 ern daffodil, and will become more popular 

 when better known. 



NARCISSUS POETAZ 



This is a very well defined section produced 

 by crossing N. Tazetta varieties with N. 

 poeticus ornatus as the seed parent. The indi- 

 vidual flowers of the poetaz hybrids resemble 

 poeticus in form and size, are freely produced 

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