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Narcissus culture Pais Kener impulse through the 
critical botanical studies of the genus by J. G. Baker, in the 
Gardener's Chronicle of 1869, and ihe publication in 1875 of 
The Narcissus’? by Mr. F. W. Burbridge, another famous 
interest in daffodils, was Mr. Peter Bair an English seedsman. 
formed a ies a to contain 500 species and varieties in 
offer 400 varieties for sale in their special 
Naicesis ee including 75 new seedlings; and London 
and New York use Daffodils by the thousand as as pails 
This brings up the question of popular names. golden 
lovee of the florist in New York are called . em Gable 
This designation really belongs to the many- 
rush-like cylindrical leaves; not the broad flat os hae rlike ones 
of the ‘daffodil’ which name should b i York 
flowers and to all large varieties of thes gents with great vellow 
cups or trumpets. They have been cana daffodillies, or 
daffy-down-dillies for hundreds of years, in popular parlance 
and are so nown b Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley and others. 
of the ‘Amiaeyiis family, crowing froma edium-size bulbs, which 
ively 
petals surround a cup or trumpet of variable size, in color rang- 
ing from white through all shades of yellow and purplish red. 
