NAECISSUS 



NABCISSUS OBDEB 



NAECISSUS 895 



that may possibly be useful later on 

 should also be recorded. It is well to 

 apply the poUen 2 or S times a day for 

 several days in the case of flowers which 

 produce rather infertile pollen or do not 

 ripen seeds so weU or so plentifully as 

 others. 



The seed being thoroughly ripe may 

 be sown in pans or boxes of carefully 

 prepared light sandy loam. The second 

 year the young bulbs may be planted out 

 in a prepared bed, and according as they 

 make good growth may receive more 

 room at each transplanting. It is a slow 

 process, however, and from 8 to 6 years 

 must elapse before flowering bulbs are 

 • produced, and it takes 2 or 3 years 

 more to develop or establish the cha- 

 racter of the seedlings. Many will be 

 rank failures, perhaps, but as Mr. 

 Engleheart has so successfully proved, 

 there may also be some real gems among 

 them. 



From a botanical point of view the 

 Daffodils are a good deal confused and 

 mixed up, and the operations of the 

 hybridist have not tended to make the task 

 of the botanist an easier one. In the 

 natural species I have adopted the names 

 given by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.E.S., in his 

 ' Handbook on the AmarylUdeee.' 



A rough classification of the Daffodils 

 would indicate two main and perhaps 

 natural groups, viz. (1) those having only 

 one flower on a stem or scape, and (2) 

 those having more than one flower on a 

 scape. 



This would result in the following 

 division ; — 



/. Narcissi with 1 flower on a scape. 



1. N. Bulbocodium. , 



(a) Graellsi. 

 (6) nivalis. 



(c) hedrceantha. 



(d) citrimus. 



(b) monophyllus. 



2. N. Pseudo-narcissus. 



(a) muticus. 

 (6) cycla/rn/ineus. 



(c) major, 

 {d) minor. 



(e) bicolor. 

 if) moschatus. 



3. N. incompsirabilis. 



(a) aurantius. 



(b) alhus. 

 4t. N. poeticus. 



{a) radiiflorus. 



uMagni- 

 / coronati) 



I (Medio- 

 j coronati) 



1 (Parvi- 

 J coronati) 



(Medio- 

 ( coronati) 



II. Narcissi with more than 1 flower 

 on a scape. 



1. N. triandrus. 



(a) calathmus. 



2. N. odorus. 



3. N. juncifolius. 



(a) gaditanus. 



(b) ruinutiflorus. 



(c) rupicola. 



4. N. Tazetta. 



(a) lacticolor. 

 (5) corcyrensis. 



(c) patulus. 



(d) ockroleucus, 



(e) papyraceus. 

 (/) Panizzianus. 

 (g) dubius. 

 (Ji) canariensis. 

 (i) pachybolbos. 

 (j) polyatithos. 

 (h) italicus. 

 (Z) Bertoloni. 



\ (Parvi- 

 / coronati) 



(to) aureus, 

 (n) cupularis. 



5. N. intermedius. 



6. N. gracilis. 



7. N. Jonquilla. 



(a) N.jonquilloides. 



8. N. viridiflorus. 



9. N. serotinus. 



(a) N. deficiens. 



10. N. elegans. 



11. N. Broussonetii. / 



In the one - flowered section N. 

 Bulbocodium and N. Pseudo-narcissus 

 constitute Mr. Baker's Magnicoronati, 

 and are characterised by having a funnel- 

 shaped or cylindrical corona as long as or 

 longer than the perianth segments. N. 

 incomparahilis belongs to the Medio- 

 coronati, which have a cup-shaped corona 

 about half as long as the perianth 

 segments. And N. poeticus belongs to 

 the Parvicoronati, which have a small 

 obconic or saucer-shaped corona. 



In the section having more than one 

 flower on a scape, only N. triandrus, 

 N, odorus and N. jumcifolius belong 

 to Mr.' Baker's Mediocoronati, while all 

 the others belong to the Parvicoronati. 



As there are now in cultivation a vast 

 number of forms in which the coronas 

 pass gradually from the smaU (Parvi- 

 coronati) to the large (Magnicoronati) 

 section, it is often very difiicult to decide 

 into which group they should be placed. 

 At least I have found it so, but never 

 found any difficulty in deciding whether 



