184 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



Hollanders have produced numerous beauti- 

 ful hybrids, some of which are hardier than 

 the typical southern forms and I have suc- 

 cessfully grown and flowered many of the 

 Dutch varieties in my garden in the vicinity 

 of New York City. Yet, like tea roses, while 

 they may live through two or three winters^ 

 with careful protection, they eventually get 

 killed by frost. They require the winter pro- 

 tection of a cold-frame. In lieu of hardiness 

 the polyanthus narcissus compensates its 

 grower in northern climes by its accommoda- 

 ting adaptability to being grown in the house, 

 in pots, pans, or flats, and some of them even 

 in bowls of water and gravel without soil. 

 Under such artificial culture they grow with 

 luxuriance and flower freely during the winter 

 and early spring months. 



In our southern states and in all favoured 

 locations where the bulbs do not freeze, they 

 flourish and increase. A cream-coloured vari- 

 ety that has escaped from cultivation in the 

 Bermudas is known locally as "Bermuda Jon- 

 quil," the thriftiness of which, I think is due 

 not so much to rich soil as to deep sub-soil 

 of notable porosity, it being a disintegrated 



