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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS nakcissus 



Star Daffodil between N. incoviparabiUs 

 and N. poeticus, having linear glaucous 

 twisted leaves and a 2-edged scape about 

 1 ft. long. Flowers solitary with oblong 

 spreading pure white segments and a 

 yellow obconic corona edged with deep 

 cinnabar-red. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 894. All the 

 Burhidgei Daffodils are beautiful, and 

 excellent for naturalising in grass-land, 

 flowering from March to the middle of 

 May, and opening even before poeticus 

 ornatus. The blooms last a good time in 

 a cut state and are useful for floral 

 decorations, bouquets &c. The following 

 list includes the best forms of Bur- 



Agnes Barr, creamy-white segments, 

 cup yellow, stained orange. 



Baroness Heath, segments yellow, 

 cup suffused with orange-scarlet. 



Beatrice Seseltime, segments creamy- 

 white, cup edged orange-scarlet. 



Constam.ce, divisions of perianth sul- 

 phury-white changing to white, expanded 

 cup, beautifully edged orange-scarlet. 



Crown Princess, divisions pure white, 

 cup yellow, margined orange. 



Ellen Barr, snow-white perianth, 

 citron cup, stained orange-scarlet. 



Valstaff, divisions pure white, lemon 

 • cup margined orange. 



John Badn, divisions white, citron cup. 



Little Dirk, small well-shaped flower, 

 pale yellow with orange cup. 



Mary, citron cup, stained orange, 

 divisions white. 



Mercy Foster, segments white, 

 crinlded, cup canary-yeEow, beautifully 

 frilled. 



Mrs. C. Bowley, segments pure white, 

 cup glowing orange-red. 



Model, divisions pure white, cup 

 stained orange, beautifully frilled. , 



Ossiam, segments white, cup orange- 

 scarlet. 



Princess Louise, perianth very large, 

 pure white, cup much expanded, orange- 

 scarlet changing to apricot, a very fine 

 variety. 



Bobin Hood, divisions creamy-white, 

 cup stained orange. 



N. cydamineus. — A charming little 

 Portuguese Daffodil of the Pseudo- 

 na/rcissus group, 6-8 in. high, having 

 narrow linear leaves with a deeply grooved 

 keel, and solitary drooping flowers borne 

 on slender roundish stalks. The lemon- 



yellow segments are abruptly reflexed, 

 reminding one of Cyclamen flowers, and 

 the orange-yellow cylindrical corona or 

 ' trumpet ' has a serrated edge. The 

 variety major has larger flowers than the 

 type. Hybrid forms between this species 

 and N. hicolor Horsfieldi and N. obval- 

 laris {major) have been obtained. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 894. The 

 Cyclamen Daffodil, as it is appropriately 

 called, is useful for choice parts of the 

 rock garden or near the edges of lakes or 

 streams, as it prefers rather moist soil. 

 It may also be grown in pots like the 

 Hoop Petticoat Daffodil. Seedlings will 

 flower about 3 years after the seeds are 

 sown, and as the plants are apt to die out 

 when left undisturbed, every means of 

 increasing them should be adopted. 



N. gracilis. — An elegant DaflfodU, 

 native of Bordeaux, having bulbs about 

 1 in. in diameter, and narrow linear green 

 leaves about a foot long. From 3 to 5 pure 

 yeUow, sweet-scented flowers are borne 

 on a weak slender roundish stalk about a 

 foot long, the segments being oblong- 

 acute, about 1 in. long, and the corona 

 obconic shallow. N. tenuior is similar, 

 but more slender in all its parts, and 

 has smaller sulphur-white flowers with 

 a yellow cup, becoming paler with age. 

 Mr. Baker retains N. gracilis as a species, 

 but Mr. Nicholson, in his ' Dictionary of 

 Gardening,' describes it as a hybrid be- 

 tween N. juncifoUus and N. Tazetta. 



Culture dc, as above, p. 894. 



N. Humei. — A beautiful hybrid raised 

 by Dr. Leeds of Manchester firom the 

 natural hybrid N. poculiformis and some 

 form of JV. Pseudo-narcissus. The droop- 

 ing flowers borne singly on a stem have a 

 distinct character, with oblong sulphur- 

 yellow segments about 1^- in. long, and a 

 shorter lemon-yellow corona, about 1 in. 

 across at the mouth, which is minutely 

 crenulate. The form alhidus has mUk- 

 white segments and a lemon-yellow 

 corona ; concolor is a distinct form, with 

 both segments and corona of a uniform 

 yeUow ; and Hume's Oiant has yellow 

 flowers changing to primrose. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 894. 



N. incomparabilis (Sta,r Daffodil). — 

 A charming Daffodil, native of Central 

 and S.W. Europe, but now naturalised in 

 parts of the British Islands. The ovoid 

 bulbs are 1-1| in. thick, and develop 



