4 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



What pleasurable associations the very 

 inention of their names uncurtains among 

 those of us who have been fortunate enough 

 to be brought up in "old-fashioned garden" 

 environment. We recall our annual spring de- 

 light in watching the sturdy development 

 from mother earth — almost before winter's 

 snow had melted — of groups of spear-like 

 leaves, followed by big, fat buds that soon 

 unsheathed their blossoms of silver and gold. 



M^HERE TO GROW THEM 



The narcissus and daffodils may be success- 

 lully grown in so many locations, and under 

 so many different conditions of soil, and cli- 

 mate, that we need scarcely ask "where may 

 they be grown?" Their freedom from cul- 

 tural complications is, indeed, one of their 

 chief merits. With the exception of a few of 

 the Mediterranean and Oriental types that 

 love warm, dry hillsides or well-drained 

 rockeries, the great majority of varieties is 

 nearly as hardy as rocks, and will grow, thrive 

 and flower almost anywhere — in garden beds, 

 in herbaceous borders and shrubberies, in 

 grassy turf of lawn, meadow or woodland, 



