52 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



neus groups, a dozen or more bulbs may well 

 be grown in a five or six-inch pot. On the 

 other hand, the big-bulbing Tazetta varieties 

 can only go one bulb to a six-inch pot. The 

 great majority of the trumpet and crown 

 daffodils can be planted 3 to 5 bulbs to a six- 

 inch pot. Plant only one variety in a pot; 

 different varieties of different heights and not 

 flowering simultaneously give an unsatisfac- 

 tory result. 



The pots to be used must be washed clean,' 

 if old ones; and if they are new, soak them 

 thoroughly in water so that the pots them- 

 selves will not dry out the soil after potting; 

 Before putting in the soil, provide for good 

 drainage by placing two or three pieces of 

 broken pots over the hole in the bot- 

 tom of the pot, to prevent it from getting 

 stopped up. Cover this drainage with a small 

 layer of sphagnum moss, cocoanut fibre refuse 

 or old fibrous roots that have been shaken out 

 of sod; then fill in with soil until, when it is 

 shaken down and a bulb set on it, the top of 

 the bulb is almost up to the top of the pot. 



Place the requisite number of bulbs in po- 

 sition, and fill in with soil to within half an 



