Ideal, the best large, many-flowered variety with 

 white petals. Sometimes has six or seven flowers. 

 Cup orange. Size two inches 



Jaune a Merveille, undoubtedly the best yellow. 

 Petals bleach somewhat. Maximum number of 

 flowers seven or eight. Size 1} inches. Costly 



Irene, supposed to have the greatost number of 

 flowers. Dealers claim eight or nine. Petals sulphur, 

 fading to white. Size 1 i inches 



Mrs. Aaron Ward of Roslyn, Long Island, 

 planted a dozen each of the following varieties 

 with these results: 



VARIETY 



STEMS 



FLOWERS 



SIZE 





18 

 29 



36 



34 



88 



117 

 160 







if to l| 









Mr. W. C. Egan's results at Highland 

 Park, 111., were similar. Three bulbs each 

 of Jaune a Merveille v Irene and Ideal gave 



twenty-nine, twenty-one and nineteen respec- 

 tively. Louise gave the greatest number 

 of stems (eight), but produced only fifteen 

 flowers from three bulbs. 



ANALYSIS OF THE POETAZ VARIETIES 



Petals goldeny- at least when blossoms first open 



No. of fls. 7 or 8: size 1 J in.. Jaune a Merveille 

 No. of fls. 5 or 6: size if in Klondyke 



Petals sulphur, jading to while 



No. of fls. 8- or 9 : size 1 J in Irene 



No. of fls. 6: size if in Sunset 



Petals white 



Cup almost orange: No. 1 of fls. 

 4 to 6 : size 2 in Ideal 



Cup yellow: 



Size of fls. 1 J in.: No. of fls. 4 Louise 



Size of fls. 2 in. 



No. of fls. 3: edge of cup red- 

 dish at first Alsace 



No. of fls. 4 



The cheapest Elvira 



The "largest" Triumph 



The poetaz varieties cost from sixty cents 

 to $4.25 a dozen last fall or from ten to forty 

 cents a bulb. 



The cultivation of these varieties is exactly 

 like that of the poet's narcissus. Plant the 

 bulbs by the middle of October at the very 

 latest, about four inches deep in a well- 

 drained bed and be careful that no manure 

 comes anywhere near the bulbs. 



Alsace, only two flowers, but large ones and the 

 cup edged reddish for a little while, as in the 

 poet's narcissus 



Louise, which has four or five flowers about 14 

 inches across. All these poetaz varieties have 

 yellow cups shallower than Tazetta 

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Elvira, the cheapest of the set. Only two rr three 

 flowers on a stem, but large, often two inches 

 across 





