40 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



of posts eight feet above the ground. Suffici- 

 ent sunlight filters through for perfect devel- 

 opment of flowers and colouring and more- 

 over it makes an agreeable shade for anyone 

 to study the flowers. Other advantages of this 

 protector — which is put on just as soon as the 

 mulch is removed — are tempering late frosts 

 and breaking the force of heavy rains, thus 

 preventing the bearing down of tall flower 

 stalks and splashing with dirt. The cloth 

 may be rolled up and put away for another 

 season just as soon as the plants are through 

 flowering, thus permitting the full sunshine 

 to accomplish its work of thoroughly ripen- 

 ing the foliage and bulbs. If we want good 

 flowers the succeeding season, the plants must 

 have abundant light and sun to complete their 

 growth. In hot Australia and New Zealand 

 daffodil amateurs make lath houses and cover 

 the tops with tree boughs. 



BLOOM FOR THREE MONTHS 



With a proper selection of types and varie- 

 ties embracing extra early, early, mid-season, 

 late and extra late sorts, the "time of the 

 daffodil" may be extended in the open ground 



