AMARYLLIS FAMILY 



botanically as a corona or crown. Sometimes, as in the Trumpet , 

 Daffodil, it is long; -.again, 'as iin the Poet's Narcissus, it is shoff; 

 but it is always more or less- frQled and crumpled at the margin. 

 Double flowers appear in many species; they, however, lack the 

 grace of the single forms. 



Baker, in his "Handbook of the AmatyllidacecB," reduces the 

 species of Narcissus to sixteen; other writers recognize more. 

 But it seems to be good opinion thai the Garden Narcissi, of which, 

 all in all, there may be a thousand varieties, are, in the main, the 

 hybrids and the variations of six' species. 



TRUMPET DAFFODIL. DAFFODIL 



Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. 



The best-known daffodil of our gardens, the type of the long-crowned 

 group. Exceedingly valuable. Native to south-western Europe and the 

 Mediterranean region-; naturalized in England; extensively grown 

 in Holland for exportation ; not long-lived in America. 



_BmZ6. — One and a half to two inches in diameter. 



Leaves. — Glaucous, nearly flat, five or six to a scape. 

 'Scape. — Two-edged, about a foot -high, one-flowered. 



Perianth. — Yellow; segments oblong, acute at apex. 



Crown. — As long as the segments, an inch or more across; margin 

 crisped and toothed. 



The Trumpet Daffodil is such a favorite among us that one 

 wishes it would naturaUze here; but so far the common experience- 

 has seemed to prove that it will not, except possibly in a single 

 form. Usually the plant struggles along in the open for a few 

 years, and then, as a rule, succumbs to the unfavorable conditions 

 of our climate. The secret of having fine daffodils is to replant 

 continually with fresh bulbs, and as these are cheap it is no great 

 hardship. 



Under cultivation the Trumpet Daffodil takes on many variant 

 forms; but in the type the perianth is yellow, the trumpet crown 

 as long as the spreading segments, and the stamens are attached 

 low in the tube. 



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