134 FLOWER GARDENING 
and the chief newcomer is the single yellow daffo- 
dil (N. pseudo-narcissus ), generally in only a slight 
improvement of the species form. 
Yet this is the day of the daffodil—to use the 
most convenient English name for covering the 
genus Narcissus. In England there is a daffodil 
craze, with no parallel save the historic tulip mania 
in Holland. It is said that £50, about $242, 
is the top-notch price for a single bulb. In any 
event prices in excess of ten dollars are tolerably 
common; some of the 1912 quotations for novel- 
ties were Challenger, $162; Michael, $90; Em- 
pire, Jasper and Sheba, $76, and Czarina and 
Sir Galahad, $50. 
It is doubtful if the craze will ever cross the 
Atlantic. Meanwhile daffodils than which none 
could ask anything more beautiful are not in every 
garden, though sold as low as half a dollar a 
dozen. Two of the best single trumpet daffodils, 
Emperor (all yellow) and Empress (yellow with 
a white perianth) cost no more than that and will 
be just as satisfying to the general run of flower- 
lovers as costly bulbs are to the ardent British 
collector. The poet’s narcissus and its yellow 
counterpart, N. incomparabilis Barrii conspicuus, 
which cost less than half as much, are two more 
of the best. And these are only four selections of 
cheap single kinds. The natural hybrid of the 
poet’s narcissus, NV. biflorus, is very beautiful but 
is more common from Delaware southward. The 
double white jonquil, better named now gardenia 
