NEW DAFFODILS, n 



come a little later. Epic and Cassandra are stately and exquisite forms, perfect 

 in colour and symmetry. Laura, Virgil, Chaucer, Shelley, and Dante are all 

 excellent in their several ways, and Glory, a somewhat late flower, is also fine. 

 Horner, though an exceptionally large and good flower, seems to share with 

 some others of its class a want of strength in the stem, which has been de- 

 scribed as bending like a fishing rod. Possibly this is only the result of unfavour- 

 able conditions of culture ; for certainly in one or two cases, newly-obtained 

 bulbs of seedling Poeticus, when grown for the first year, produced flowers that 

 showed this " fishing-rod " defect very much. But it was not observable in the 

 second or subsequent seasons, owing possibly to more favourable soil and 

 climate. Mr. Engleheart has also brought out some double flowers, which are 

 useful because of their strong stems. Everyone who has witnessed the havoc 

 that a little rain and wind can make with most of the old " doubles " will realise 

 the merit of double flowers which have a strong upstanding habit. Plenipo 

 is a double sulphur, and Argent, as its name suggests, is mostly white, with 

 some primrose petals, and an attractive symmetry of form. Primrose Phoenix, 

 a flower from Ireland, is very fine, of large size, and a clear self primrose. 



Any notice of new Daffodils would be very incomplete if it contained no 

 mention of the many fine exhibition Daffodils, as well as interesting and rare 

 forms of the flower, shown from time to time on the Narcissus Committee table 

 in London and at the Birmingham shows by Miss Willmott, whose collections 

 at Warley simply embody the whole history and science of the flower. Among 

 her important contributions during the last couple of years may be named 

 Earl Grey, Countess Grey, Robert Berkeley, Charles Wolley Dod, Betty 

 Berkeley, Warley Magna, Incognita, and those brilliant flowers Oriflamme 

 and Cresset. 



F. W. CURREY, 



Lismore. 



Hardy Fruits of the Lyons Region. 



By Fran^isque Morel. 



The geographical and agricultural region which to profit by these favourable circumstances ; cherries, 



surrounds Lyons is one of the most propitious in apricots, pears, peaches, and grapes are largely culti- 



France for good fruits. They are favoured in their vated for the markets and exported in important 



growth and maturity by a certain equable distribu- quantities. The cultivator has not been content 



tion of sun and rain, of warmth and moisture, merely to select the varieties that sell best ; he has 



which has no existence in the north nor in the south, embarked on the conquest of new kinds. He has 



and which permits of the ripening out of doors, succeeded, thanks to the discovery of chance varie- 



without any sort of shelter, of the finest peaches, the ties, but more frequently as the result of intelligent 



most delicate nectarines, grapes that are golden in hybridizing, in increasing to an extent of which this 



berry, crisp and juicy— choice fruits that could not article is intended to give some idea the resources 



bear the ardent sun and the long droughts of our bequeathed to him by his predecessors. Societies 



neighbour La Provence, and that in northern climes have been formed, uniting interests and efforts in 



are only to be grown on espalier against a well- a common bond for spreading useful knowledge 



exposed wall. Our industrial population know how in regard to fruit culture, and encouraging and 



