NOMENCLATURE — CLASSIFICATION IO9 



America have been thoroughly searched and 

 the synonomy noted. For instance : " Abscis- 

 sas" and "Muticus" represent the same vari- 

 ety; "Emperor" and "Lorifolius Emperor" 

 are the same; "Golden Spur" and "Spurius 

 Golden Spur" are the same; "Grandis" and 

 "Grandee" are the same. These different 

 names for one variety are very bothersome to 

 the beginner, as I know by experience. 



If the name of a variety be known, but not 

 its class, reference must be had to the index, 

 where it will be found in alphabetical order. 



EXPLANATION OF SIGNS. 



In the discriptions of narcissus and daffo- 

 dils which follow various signs will be noted 

 following the name of the variety, the mean- 

 ings, of which are here explained : 



The letters: A, B, C, D, E, and F, indicate the degree 

 of earliness or lateness in flowering in the open under ordi- 

 nary weather conditions, the wintry weather not unduly 

 extended into spring to retard the earlies, nor the summer 

 suddenly bursting forth and hastening the flowering of the 

 late varieties. During normal seasons the difference in time 

 of flowering between the A's and B's and C's, etc., should 

 be from a week to ten days. We can not give the exact 

 time that flowers are due for all latitudes and altitudes so 

 have followed dates noted in the author's grounds near 

 New York City. Allow six days later for every hundred 



