NEW DAFFODILS, 



showed some further seedlings this year, the best of which were Queen Alexan- 

 dra and Sir Francis Drake, but neither approached King Alfred in importance. 

 Golden Bell is a charming early flower with pale, broad, yellow perianth, and 

 a very large deep-golden trumpet, finely recurved and frilled. 



Among bicolors, Ellen Willmott and Weardale Perfection are still un- 

 challenged as to first place in merit, but for some mysterious reason of the 

 season the spring of 1902 was unmarked by the display of such 

 fine blooms of Weardale Perfection as were seen in 190 1. A 

 beautiful bicolor, Mrs. Hillhouse, was shown at Birmingham, and deservedly 

 admired. Other first-class bicolors are Duke of Bedford and Mrs. Morland 

 Crosfleld. 



A considerable number of new and very interesting flowers have been seen 

 this season in the section of Daffodils with white perianths, and white, or pale 

 primrose, or palest apricot trumpets. Until these flowers have 



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white perianths become more common — which is unlikely to happen very soon, 

 as extremely few bulbs of many of the finest varieties are yet in 

 existence — it will be difficult to judge fully as to their respective merits. The 

 beauty of some of the flowers of this class is much enhanced if grown under 

 glass or closely shaded, but until they are seen growing in the open we shall 

 not be able to feel certain that the refinement and beauty of tone we have noted 

 in the exhibited flowers will be found in equal perfection under ordinary culture. 

 None of the new white trumpets have won more admiration for size, form, 

 and colour than Peter Barr, worthily named after the veteran Narcissus grower. 

 Other fine flowers of this class are Queen Christina and Lady Audrey ; the 

 former has a yellowish tinge in the trumpet, that of the second named is paler. 

 Mr. Engleheart has produced many beautiful flowers with trumpets, some of 

 which he has named after Italian cities : Verona, Genoa, and Venice are among 

 the best. Beautiful as are the new flowers just enumerated, they supplement 

 but do not supersede older varieties of such established merit as Madame de 

 GraafF, Mrs. Thompson, and Cernuus pulcher; while for perfect purity of 

 whiteness and elegance of form the delicate little Irish flower, Colleen Bawn, 

 so fickle and difficult to grow in perfection, has no rival. 



Among the newer Daffodils in the Incomparabilis section there are many 

 flowers of great excellence and refinement, and the red cups are a very strong 

 company, deservedly prized for their brightness and the vivid 



d tfo'ii c °l° ur they impart to the spring garden. Those who only see 

 these flowers in vases at a show have little idea of the splendid 

 effect of a large clump or stretch of such flowers as Lucifer, Lulworth, Gloria 

 Mundi, Vesuvius, or C. }. Backhouse. 



A few flowers were shown this season of the rare and highly-prized Will 

 Scarlet, which boasts the largest fiery chalice of all the red-cups. Flambeau, 



