212 DAFFODILS — NARCISSUS 



could be cited to show that crossing in the 

 same group often produces progeny superior 

 to either parent. 



SOWING DAFFODIL SEEDS AND RAISING 

 THE SEEDLINGS 



The seeds of narcissus and daffodils should 

 be sown as soon as ripe, about August, in 

 wooden boxes with holes In the bottom, or 

 earthen pots or pans. Cover the holes with 

 broken pottery, then place over the hole a 

 layer of more finely broken pots or cinders 

 and another layer of cocoanut fibre refuse, or 

 old fibrous roots from sods to prevent the soil 

 from filling up the rubble and stopping the 

 drainage. Over this place a two or three-inch 

 layer of good loamy soil free from manure, 

 mixed with about ten per cent, of sand. On 

 this sow the seeds, scattering them thinly over 

 the surface, and cover with half an inch 

 of loamy soil mixed with one-half sand. The 

 object of so much sand is to prevent the soil 

 from caking and forming a surface which it 

 would be diificult for young growth to pene- 

 trate. The boxes, pots or pans containing 



