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Daffodils running the entire gamut from yellow 

 to white. Daffadillies with trumpets flanged, 

 expanded, gashed, lobed. serrated, and recurved. 

 Daffadowndillies with perianths twisted, dog- 

 eared, stellated, reflexed, imbricated, channeled, 

 and hooded. Then the multitudinous divisions 

 and classes. Hoop-petticoat daffodils, single and 

 dwarf trumpets, bicolor and shortened bicolor 

 trumpets, white trumpeters, coffee-cups, tea- 

 cups and tea-saucers, musk-scented and Eitcha- 

 n's daffodils, jonquil-scented and rush-leaved, 

 goblet-shaped daffodils, polyanthus or tazetta, 

 early and late poet's daffodils, jonquils, double 

 daffodils, and how many more of the gilded host 



To add to golden numbers golden numbers ! 



Lilies are tempting enough in the catalogues. 

 But the lists finally come to an end, while the 

 varieties of the daffodil are inexhaustible. The 

 names, English and Latin, are so tempting, too, 

 though these are nothing compared to the de- 

 scriptions. To catch the daffodil-fever severely 

 means either to break the tenth commandment 

 or to be guilty of ruthless extravagance. You 

 know there are swarms of varieties that will 

 not succeed ; but how are you to single them 

 out without trying them ? How artistically, how 

 artfully devised some of the monographs are! 

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