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crowded, fail to develop properly. By lifting the Daffodils one is 
able to prepare and enrich the soil, detach the small offsets from the 
parent bulbs and make sure that the latter “ ripen.” It is generally 
recognised that itis best not to leave the bulbs undisturbed for more 
than two or three years, but lifting them every year seems to me to be 
the most satisfactory plan to adopt insmall gardens. They are taken 
up in time to allow one to plant annuals and various summer 
flowers. In quite a small garden where there is no room to spare 
for drying off the bulbs, the best thing to do is to buy a few every 
year. Some varieties that can be recommended with confidence 
are Madame de Graaff, white; Emperor, golden yellow; Empress, 
white and yellow; Golden Spur, clear yellow; Horsfieldi, white 
A MASS OF DOUBLE WHITE ARABIS 6 FEET ACROSS. 
and yellow; Mrs. J. B. M. Camm, white and cream; Queen 
of Spain, soft clear yellow ; Victoria, white and yellow; William 
Goldring (Swan’s Neck Daffodil), white and sulphur coloured. All 
the foregoing are Trumpet Daffodils. Among the chalice cupped or 
Star Narcissi may be recommended Barri conspicuus, yellow with 
orange scarlet in centre; C. J. Backhouse, yellow with orange in 
centre; Duchess of Westminster, white with yellow cnp; Gloria 
Mundi, yellow with orange scarlet cup; Beauty, sulphur coloured 
with orange yellow cup; Flora Wilson, white with orange scarlet 
cup; Frank Miles, shades of yellow; Minnie Hume, white with 
canary yellow cup; Sir Watkin, primrose with yellow cup, magnifi- 
cent sort ; Stella, white and yellow. Then there remain the true 
Pheasant’s Kye Daffodils in several varieties. 
