RAISING FROM SEED 209 



There are hundreds of desirable possibili- 

 ties to work for and hundreds of possible com- 

 binations to work with, this being one of the 

 phases of daffodil culture that makes it so 

 fascinating. The enthusiast's culmination of 

 delight is in watching the development of the 

 first flowers of his own seedlings, for he is 

 always sure that something will develop to 

 astonish the world — possibly a silver-winged 

 Weardale with scarlet trumpet or a golden- 

 winged Autocrat with snow-white crown. 



In every fertile flower of Narcissus, the 

 long, slender style with its swollen stigma, 

 after the lobes develop, exudes a sticky sub- 

 stance which indicates that the stigma is in a 

 receptive condition. Pollen is the yellow, 

 dust-like grains adhering to the anthers which 

 dangle at the ends of the six stamens sur- 

 rounding the stigma. When ripe pollen 

 comes into contact with the stigma, pol- 

 lination results, which if effective, is called 

 fertilisation. When the pollen of a flower 

 falls upon its own stigma it is self pollination 

 or self fertilisation. If the pollen is that from 

 another flower of the same type on a differ- 

 ent plant, it is cross pollination. A true hy- 



