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THE SCHOOL GARDEN BOOK 



A Double Daffodil. 



He who is satisfied with two 

 or three sorts of daffodils misses 

 the best part of the pleasure of 

 growing them. One should not 

 be content without at least one 

 variety, to represent each of the 

 half-dozen important forms as- 

 sumed by the hundreds of sorts 

 in cultivation. In a general way 

 they are di\ided into the Tazetta 

 or Polyanthus group, in which 

 there are several blossoms clus- 

 tered on a single stem, of which 

 the familiar Paper-white Narcis- 

 sus is an example, and those in 

 which there is but one flower on a stem. The latter are in 

 turn divided into three principal groups, according to the 

 size of the crown or trumpet in the middle of the flower; 

 namely, the small- 

 crowned, the medi- 

 um-crowned, and the 

 large-crowned nar- 

 cissi. The small- 

 crowned s o rt s , of 

 which the Poet's nar- 

 cissus is an example, 

 are the true narcissi; 

 the medium-crowned, 

 of which the Barrii 

 Narcissus and the 

 variety Stella are ex- 



