THE INC0MPAKAJ3LE 

 DAFFODIL. 



Narcissus incom-. 



AFFODILS are in the same 



good luck as lilies, if it be good 



luck for a flower to be in 



fashion. They are grown for 



the flower-markets on a scale 



that surprises those who are 



unaccustomed to the statistics 



of commercial horticulture, 



and they are also grown for 



the gardens more extensively 



than any other class of bulbs. 



There are good reasons for this, 



'y and we are bound to state them as 



r fully as our space will allow. 



The two prominent reasons for their 

 popularity are their beauty and their early 

 flowering. Those who know only the 

 common double daffodil of the cottage 

 garden can form no proper conception 

 of the variety of character and the purity and splendour 

 of the more distinctive species and varieties. The gigantic 

 Telamonius, the chaste and queenly Empress, the dashing 

 Emperor, and the great golden Maximus may be named 

 as sumptuous forms of "Lent lilies/'. or trumpet daffodils, 



