Wild Flowers as They Grow 



flower-pollen with them. SeM-fertilisation is very 

 improbable in the Daffodil, since the ovary column 

 is longer than the stamens and, consequently, its 

 receptive tip beyond their reach. 



The fruit is a capsule. If it be cut through 

 in early days the three chambers of the ovary 

 can be plainly seen, also the double column of 

 seeds each contains. When ripe it opens by three 

 valves atop. 



But the propagation of the Daffodil is chiefly 

 by the multiphcation of bulbs. One buds off from 

 another below ground, the attaching tissues decay, 

 the pull of the roots of the daughter bulb draws it a 

 little apart, and thus, when once the plant gets 

 a foothold, it can cover by degrees a large area. 



The Daffodil family is the Amaryllidece, a family 

 but poorly represented in our country — the snow- 

 drop, the snowflake, and a pale variety of Daffodil 

 known as Primrose Peerless being the only other 

 representatives — though in sunnier and drier parts 

 of the world it has many other members, such as 



