SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



sorts of narcissus, of which our common daffodil is one, 

 and, I believe, the only one that is not a native of the 

 south of Europe. I shall enumerate only three sorts, and 

 shall give instructions relative to the procuring- of these 

 by offsets, and relative to the blowing of them in beds, in 

 pots and in glasses. The PAPER WHITE. Lat. Narcissus 

 papyraceus. the JONQUIL. Lat. Narcissus Jonquilla. Fr. 

 Jonquille. the POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS. Lat. Narcissus 

 polyanthus. Fr. Narcissus multiflore. These are all beau- 

 tiful flowers, and all sweet-scented ; but particularly the 

 Jonquil. The first sort is reputed for its delicate and pure 

 white. It grows to a foot and a half high, bearing two 

 or three very handsome and paper- white flowers. The 

 second for its peculiarly sweet scent, which is enough 

 from only one plant, to perfume a whole room. It blows 

 a yellow flower, proceeding from a slender and elegant 

 stalk of from ten to twelve inches in height. The last 

 sort, of which there are three varieties, the white, the white 

 with yellow cup in the middle, and the all yellow, for its 

 abundance of flowers, which are frequently ten or twelve 

 in number upon each of two, three or four stems, ac- 

 cording as the plant is a thriving and well-managed one. 

 The first has a bulb about the size of a bantam hen's 

 egg, the second a bulb not bigger than a very small 

 walnut, and the third a bulb larger than a turkey's egg. 

 They are all to be had of the seedsmen who import them 

 yearly from Holland ; but they may be propagated here ; 

 or, at least, those who wish to go to the trouble of it, 

 by parting the offsets from the mother plants in July, and 

 planting them in a bed by themselves for a year ; 

 by themselves, because they do not flower the first 

 year after being parted ; or they may also be had 



