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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS naecissus 



deeper yellow, deeply lobed spreading trum- 

 pet. The double form, minor plenus or 

 Bip Van Winkle, has deep yellow flowers. 

 The variety minimus is the smallest of 

 the Trmnpet Daffodils, only 3-4 in. high, 

 with rich yellow flowers much smaller 

 than the type ; nanus is a strong-growing 

 dwarf form with bright yellow flowers, 

 the segments of which are longer than the 

 corona, which is less lobed than in the 

 type. 



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

 group of Daffodils are excellent for the 

 edges of borders or shrubberies, and choice 

 spots in the rock garden. They are also 

 useful for pot culture. 



N. moschatus (N. candidissvmus). — A 

 beautiful Pyrenean and Spanish Daffodil 

 with the fohage and habit of N. Pseudo- 

 narcissus. The attractive flowers are 

 variable in size, having twisted segments 

 1-lj in. long, at first tinged with pale 

 yellow, but afterwards pure white, and 

 as long as the corona or trumpet, about 

 1 in. across at the incised-crenate and 

 plaited rim. The variety albicans has 

 larger flowers, with the corona more re- 

 curved at the rim ; cemuus has silvery 

 white drooping flowers, and co-nuus pul- 

 cher is an improved form with a larger 

 spreading primrose trumpet passing to 

 white. There is also a pretty double- 

 flowered form of cemuus with white 

 blossoms, but it is rather rare. Tortuosus 

 (also known as Leda and Sarnian Belle) 

 has pure white twisted segments shorter 

 than the trumpet, which is at first sulphur- 

 yellow, but afterwards snowy-white. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 894. The 

 moschatus Daffodils as a rule prefer par- 

 tially shaded situations and flourish in 

 stiffish loamy soil. Most of them are 

 suitable for natm-alising in grass land, and 

 also in the rockery. 



N. mirticns (Jiy. abscissus). — This Pyre- 

 nean Daffodil is like N. Pseudo-narcissus 

 in habit but has rather broader leaves, 

 and flowers about 1^ in. long, with sulphur- 

 yellow segments, and a deep lemon-yeUow 

 corona, about | in. across. 



Culture lie. as above, p. 894. 



N. Nelsoni. — This is a beautiful and 

 strong-growing form of 2f. Macleayi, 

 having creamy-white segments about li 

 in. long, and ^1 in. broad, much imbri- 

 cated, and a lemon-yeUow corona or 

 trumpet about half the length of the seg- 

 ments. The flowers of this group ar^ 



very distinct and are valuable for cutting. 

 They appear as a rule rather later than 

 the flowers of the bicolor group (p. 896). 

 Among the best forms of Nelsoni are the 

 follovidng : — 



Au/rantius, a lovely form, divisions 

 white, very broad, straight cup, bright 

 yellow, margined with orange-scarlet. 



Border Maid, segments pure white, 

 long clear yellow cup. 



Major, flowers very large, white, cup 

 yellow slightly tinted with orange, divi- 

 sions broad. 



Minor, pure white, cup yellow, 

 medium flower, very late. 



Mrs. C. J. BacJchouse, divisions pm-e 

 white, broad expanded yellow cup, dis- 

 tinct. 



Mrs. E. O. Knights, white segments 

 and bold stiff bright yellow cup. 



Pulchellus, divisions white and cup 

 yellow ; flower drooping and well-formed. 



Wm. Bachhouse, broad white seg- 

 ments, clear yellow cup. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 894. 



N. odorus. — This is known as the 

 ' Campernelle Jonquil ' and is found wild 

 in Spain and France to Italy and Dahnatia, 

 but is now regarded as a hybrid between 

 N. Jonquilla and N. Pseudo-narcissus. 

 It has ovoid bulbs 1-lJ in. thick, and 3-4 

 narrow linear bright green rushy leaves 

 about J in. through, and deeply chan- 

 nelled down the face. The roundish scape 

 1-li ft. high bears 2-4 sweet-scented 

 uniform bright yellow flowers with 

 obovate oblong spreading segments, and 

 an obconic corona about i in. deep, and 

 5 in. across the 6-lobed and orenated 

 mouth. The \a.Tietj heminalis is a rare 

 and distinct form with smaller sweet- 

 scented golden-yellow fiowers ; rugulosus 

 is a robust form with deep yellow flowers 

 having a straight crinkle-edged corona; 

 the variety plenus has sweet-scented 

 double yellow flowers resembUng a small 

 Eose, and is popidarly known as Queen 

 Anne's Jonquil, a name also given to the 

 double-flowered form of the Common 

 JonquU. It will be fotmd in some works 

 as a variety of N. Jonquilla, a proof that 

 odorus has some concnection with that 

 species. The variety minor has flowers 

 about 1 in. across and a much smaller 

 corona than any other form. 

 Culture dtc, as above, p. 894. 



N. orientalis. — This is probably a 

 hybrid between N. incomparabiUs and 



