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here, for it even ripened seeds in the borders at Chapel AI- 

 lerton. It succeeds better, nevertheless, in a pot of pure 

 loam, sheltered under a frame, as in severe frosts, unless the 

 ground is pretty well covered with snow the leaves are gene- 

 rally injured. 



Ganymedes Effusus, MSS. Narcissus Trilobus ! Kerin 

 Bot. Mag. n. 945. cum Ic. Narcissus nutans. Haworth Diss, 

 p. 179. Narcissus juncifolius caliceluteo reflexis foliis albidis. 

 Park. Par. p. 92. 



To the florists in Holland we are indebted for preserving 

 this species, from whence our nurserymen have lately im- 

 ported it. It was cultivated by Parkinson, but had long 

 been lost here, and thrives best, like the following, in the 

 open ground. 



Ganymedes Pulchellus, MSS. Narcissus Triandrus, v. 

 luteus! Kerin Bot. Mag. n. 1262. cum Tc. Narcissus Pulchel- 

 lus. Prodr. p. 223. Narcissus juncifolius caiice albo reflexis 

 foliis luteus. Park. Par. p. 92. 



For many years this species was confined to the gardens 

 about Halifax, in Yorkshire, where I helped to propagate it 

 when at school in that neighbourhood, and was flogged in 

 the Whitsuntide holidays, of 1769, for running out of bounds 

 to know the name of it at North Bierly : lately, however, our 

 worthy member, Mr. George Anderson, with the assist- 

 ance of some London nurserymen, has pretty well cleared 

 the north of it ; and if they will only make it plentiful in the 

 south I shall rejoice. The surest method of doing this, is to 

 plant the bulbs in a border of pure loam, rather moist than 

 dry ; about once in four or five years, as soon as the leaves 

 are decayed, they should be taken up and transplanted, but 



