NARCISSUS 



THE BULB BOOK 



NAECISSUS 



single bulb costing anything from 

 2s. 6d. to £8. 



Amyas Leigh, pure wtite, nearly 3 

 ins; across ; corona rich orange edged 

 with deep crimson. Armeline, creamy- 

 sulphur, of great substance ; corona 

 bright yellow edged with orange. 

 Armorel, white, with overlapping 

 petals ; corona crinkled, edged with 

 apricot, Astrardente, pure white ; 

 corona salmon with a darker edge. 

 Astrophel, pure white ; corona 



Fig. 267. — JNarcissus Englehearti, " Cir^:let. 



crinkled, pale canary-yellow. Circlet, 

 a magnificent iiower with- broad, 

 pure white, rounded petals ; corona 

 yellowish with orange - scarlet rim. 

 Concord, a beautiful and perfectly 

 circular white flower tinted with 

 buff, and having a saffron-buff or 

 dark coppery corona. Coreen, 

 creamy - white, 3 ins. across ; rich 

 yellow corona suffused with deep 

 orange. Derwent, sulphur - yellow ; 

 corona suffused with orange. Dorothy 

 Pearson, creamy-white, with bright 

 orange corona. Harold Fvtm, pure 

 white, with flat scarlet corona. In- 



cognita, white, with distinct orange- 

 apricot corona. Inga, glistening 

 white, with deep orange - apricot 

 corona ; a kind of improved Incognita. 

 Mariette, pure clear white, 2 ins. 

 across; deep orange corona, edged 

 brilliant scarlet. Pole Star, white, 

 with fluted corona of a soft pale 

 canary - yellow. Salamander, soft 

 sulphur - yellow, with broad ovate 

 petals, and a shallow bright yellow 

 corona Ij ins. acros?, banded with 

 brilliant orange. Semiramis, white, 

 with large yellow corona edged bright 

 scarlet. 



N. gracilis. — ^A native of Bordeaux, 

 bearing from three to five pure yellow 

 sweet-scented flowers on a scape, the 

 corona being shallow and obconic. 

 Probably a cross between N. jtmci- 

 folius and N. Tazetta. {Bot. Reg. t. 

 816.) 



N. Humei {N . poctdiformis x N. 

 Psevdo-narcisstis ). — Raised by Dr 

 Leeds of Manchester. Flowers 

 sulphur - yellow, drooping, with a 

 lemon - yellow corona. The best- 

 known forms are alhidus, mUk-white, 

 with a lemon-yellow corona ; concolor, 

 of a uniform yellow ; and Hume's 

 Giant, yellow changing to primrose. 



N. inoomparabilis. — This is known 

 as the " Star " or " Chalice - cupped 

 Daffodil," owing to the spreading 

 starry segments of the perianth, and 

 the cup-shaped corona. It is a native 

 of Central and S.W. Europe, and is 

 now naturalised in parts of the 

 United Kingdom. The bulbs are 

 about 1^ ins. thick, and the star- 

 shaped solitary flowers are 2 to 3 ins. 

 across, pale yellow in colour, with an 

 obconic lemon-yellow corona. {Bot. 

 Mag. t. 121.) 



In the variety cdhus the petals are 

 white, and the corona lemon-yellow. 

 The variety known as Orange Phoenix, 

 with double flowers, has arisen from 

 this. In the variety av/ramtivs the 



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