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THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



Selection of various Bulbous Irises. 



alata, pale blue, 6 ins. *orchioides, yellow, 1 ft. reticulata Krelagei, red purple, 9 ins. 



Bakeriana, blue and white, 6 ins. persica, pearl blue and white, 6 ins. major, deep violet, 1 ft. 



Danfordise, yellow, 4 ins. reticulata cyanea, pale blue, 9 ins. Eosenbachiana, white and violet, 



juncea, yellow, 15 ins. histrioides, blue, 6 ins. 6 ins. 



These all flower early. The hardiest are the varieties of reticulata. The others should have a warm, rather 



dry position in light soil. 



NARCISSUS. 



Although the narcissus has only lately received the full recognition its beauty and 

 usefulness deserve, it has for very many years been prized by admirers of the highest 



types of floral beauty. Gerarde 

 (1597) speaks of twenty-four 

 kinds as being grown in abundance 

 in London gardens, and only a 

 few years afterwards Parkinson 

 mentions nearly a hundred kinds. 

 Since Parkinson's time much has 

 been done in the way of raising 

 seedlings, Herbert, Backhouse, 

 Leeds, and Nelson adding many 

 exquisite flowers to the older 

 forms. To John Horsefield we are 

 indebted for the fine bicolor 

 which bears his name ; and the 

 work has been continued in recent 

 years by such florists as De Graaf 

 and Engleheart, an example of 

 whose work is given in the hybrid 

 Narcissus Albatross (Fig. 26). 

 This was obtained by crossing a 

 Poet's Narcissus with a Trumpet 

 Narcissus, and is intermediate between them. Mr. Peter Barr, of the well-known 

 firm of Messrs. Barr and Son, King Street, Covent Garden, a great admirer of the 

 narcissus, deserves much of the credit for the favour with which the flower is now 



Fig. 26. Hybrid Narcissus Albatross. 



