SOME OF THE SMALLER NARGISSL 



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and for growing in pots tbeir striking though refined character 

 makes them very desirable. 



aurantius. pulchellus. 



major. Stanley. 



Mrs. Backhouse. William Backhouse. 



Selection of Bernardi Varieties. — This section makes up in 

 beauty and interest what it lacks in number-^. Like many of our 

 beautiful Narcissi the type comes from the Pyrenees, where it is 

 found as a natural hybrid, and it was the veteran Peter Barr who 

 proved the parentage to be N. poeticus and N. abscissus. Need- 

 less to say, the flower is of the most refined character. 



Bernard!. Fire Glow (new and expen- 



H. E. Buxton. sive). 



Selection of tridymus Varieties.— From the foregoing sec- 

 tion that of tridymus difl'ers in many respects, but the distinction 

 is now raised because it is a garden instead of a natural hybrid. 

 The parents were a large trumpet variety and a form of Narcissus 

 Tazetta (Polyanthus Narcissus), and from the latter it inherits the 

 propensity to produce two or three flow^ered scapes and a sweet 

 perfume. 



A. Rawson. St. Patrick (expensive). 



Cloth of Gold (expen- S. A. de Graaff. 



sive) . The Twins (new and expen- 



Miss White. • sive). 



Selection of triandrus Varieties. — The popular name that 

 has been accorded to these Dafl'odils is Angels' Tears, and its 

 peculiar appropriateness is not fully realised until the delightful 

 flowers are seen in some congenial spot whose soil is gritty loam, 

 well drained and moderately heavily shaded. The plants rarely 

 exceed 7 inches in height, and the mode of carrying the flowers 

 on the stem has given rise to another favourite appellation- 

 Cyclamen flowered Narcissus. 



albus. concolor. 

 calathinus. " pulchellus. 



Selection of odorus Varieties. — In this small section we 

 find the fragrant Jonquils, whose flowers sell in their tens of 

 thousands in the big markets of the country. They may be planted 

 in clumps in borders, or cultivated in pots^ but the ideal place is 

 in the grass towards the margins of streams or lakes, where their 

 Rush-like leafage makes them singularly appropriate, apart from 

 j the charming yellow blooms. 



odorus (the Camper- odorus plenus. 



nelle Jonquil). Campernelli plenus (rare 



heminalis rugulosus. and expensive). 



Rush-leaved Daffodils.— Apart from the Jonquils, there are 

 at least three Rush-leaved Dafl'odils that are very charming. They 



