1 66 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



goblet-shaped crown half an inch long. 

 Though small in all its parts it is a healthy, 

 vigorous plant, flowering freely, and equally 

 valuable whether grown in pots, beds, or 

 naturalised. 



NARCISSUS BARRII 



A connecting link between the longer 

 incomparabilis group and the smaller crowned 

 poeticus and Burbidgei types. They are gar- 

 den hybrids of various forms but all have a 

 yellow and usually orange or reddish rimmed, 

 wide-mouthed crown, the depth of which is 

 one-fourth to one-third the length of the 

 spreading star-like petals. 



Barrii forms are produced by crossing A^. 

 poeticus with an Ajax variety, though a A^. 

 poeticus and a A^. incomparabilis cross will 

 produce flowers of both Barrii and Burbidgei 

 forms. 



The flowers of the Barriis while usually 

 smaller than those of incomparabilis varieties 

 are of refined and beautiful form and are usu- 

 ally carried "nose-up." 



Well suited for pot culture — three to five 

 bulbs in a pot — ^while for beds, borders, natur- 



