Barr and Sugdcn, 1872.] 



1 1 



PURE WHITE. 



each — s. d. 



264 *Albus maximus, splendid large truss, ex. 1 6 



265 *AlbU8 superbissimus, large full truss, ex. 1 o 



266 *Baroness VanTuyll, long handsome truss, ex. 1 o 



267 *Blanchard, fine compact truss o 8 



268 +Bouquet Royal, long compact truss, ex... 1 6 



269 *Crown Princess of tbe Netherlands, 



large compact handsome truss, ex 1 o 



270 +Don Gratuit, large bells, good truss o 9 



271 fFlevo, lily white, ex 1 o 



272 *Fontaine, large beautiful truss, ex 1 6 



273 *Grand Vainqueur, fine compact truss o 8 



274 * ,, Vedette, large bells add truss, ex. o 9 



275 -t-Grootvorstin, large compact truss 2 o 



276 *La Candeur, fine close truss o 8 



277 +La Deesse, moderate bells, fine truss o 9 



278 *Lady Havelock, fine truss, ex 10 



279 *La Franchise, very fine large handsome 



truss {new), ex 1 6 



280 +La Tour d'Auvergne, large bells, large 



handsome truss, ex o 9 



294 fAnna Maria, blush, neat bells, with violet 



centre, good truss o 8 



295 *Anna Paulowna, white shaded rose, com- 



pact large truss, ex o 9 



296 *Cleopatra, waxy white, large bells, thick 



fine truss, ex o 9 ■ 



297 *Dolly Varden, white shaded rose, large 



bells, thick truss, ex 1 o 



298 *Elfrida, waxy white, large bells, bold hand- 



some truss, ex 1 o 



299 *Grandeur a Merveille, white shaded rose, 



immetise compact truss, ex o 9 



300 fLa Virginite, white shaded, very large 



bells, good truss o 8 



YELLOW, ORANGE, CI ! 



309 *Alida Jacobssa, rich canary-yellow o 9 



310 "Anna Carolina, beautiful primrose, fine 



compact truss, ex 1 o 



311 *Bird of Paradise, beautiful rich prim- 



rose, fine truss, ex 7 6 



312 *Canary, canary-yellow, fine truss 1 6 



313 *Duc dS Malakoff, straw colour, striped 



rose-lake, novel colour, large truss, ex. ... 2 o 



each — s. d. 



281 *La Vestale, lily white, splendid large 



handsome truss, ex 1 o 



282 *L'Innocence K large bells, large splendid 



truss {new), ex 8 6 



283 *Madame Van der Hoop, large bells, large 



compact truss, ex 1 3 



284 *Mirandolina, large fine truss, ex o 9 



285 *Mont Blanc, large bells, compact large 



handsome truss, ex 1 6 



286 *OvledO, compact large and handsome, ex 1 6 



287 *Paix de l'Europe, large truss, ex 1 6 



288 fPrince of Waterloo, neat bells, neat com- 



pact handsome truss, ex 1 o 



289 *Princess Frederick William, large fine 



truss, ex 1 6 



290 +Pyrene, large fine truss o 9 



291 *Queen Victoria, handsome truss, ex o 9 



292 *Queen of the Netherlands, large bells, 



very fine truss, ex 1 o 



293 *Snowball, fine truss, bells beautifully sym- 



metrical, and of great substance, ex 4 6 



301 *Lord Granville, white shaded rose, large 

 bells, handsome truss, ex o 9 



302 *Monarque, white shaded rose, fine 1 o 



303 *Orondates, white tinged rose, large hand- 

 some truss, ex 1 6 



304^+Princess Alice, white shaded rose, com- 

 pact truss, ex 1 o 



305 *Seraphine, white shaded rose, large bells, 

 very large truss, ex 1 o 



306 +Triumph Blandina, white, beatttifully 

 tinged rose, pink centre, fine truss, ex. ... o 3 



307 *Tausen, white, s/iaded rose, very large 

 handsome truss, ex 1 6 



308 * Voltaire, white shaded rose, large bells, 

 fine truss o 8 



TRON, PRIMROSE, Etc. 



314 *"Grand Due de Luxembourg, rich yellow, 

 large fine truss 2 o 



315 *Heroine, primrose, large truss, ex o 9 



316 *Ida, rich primrose, large truss, ex 2 6 



317 *King Of Holland, apricot colour, very dis- 

 tinct, compact neat truss, ex o 3 



318 *La Citronniere, citron-yellow, very fine ... 1 o 

 '319 *L'Or RAustralie, fineyellow, large truss , ex. 3 6 



320 *OverwiTTnaar, fine yellow, nice truss 1 o 



WHITE SHADED ROSE, Etc. 



NAECISSUS, OE DAFFODIL. 



The Narcissus is amongst the oldest and most beautiful of Spring flowering bulbous plants. It has for 

 centuries been one of the highly prized Garden favourites, and has commanded in an unusual degree the 

 attention of the scientific botanist. During those epochs when artificial gardening has been in the ascendant, 

 the Narcissus, like many another charming flower, has had to yield to the inexorable goddess of Fashion. Ac 

 such times it has been saved from extinction by the fostering care of our Botanic Gardens, and of those enthusiastic 

 amateurs who love flowers not for what they cost, but for their intrinsic beauty, and who, while they do not 

 ignore new introductions, discard not their old friends, unless the new is an improvement upon the old. The 

 Narcissus, however, like many other neglected flowers, is now reasserting its position, and claiming its proper 

 place in the general economy of floral decoration. 



For well nigh three months, this season, at each of the fornightly meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 we exhibited collections of flowers of the various Narcissi as they came into bloom. Could our readers have seen 

 these, we have no doubt they would have joined in the general exclamations of praise so freely bestowed upon 

 them, and the expressions of surprise that there should be a garden without the Narcissus. 



They may be classed among the first and the last of our Spring flowers — commencing with the Trumpet 

 varieties in February and terminating with the Double Poeticus in June. 



The nomenclature of the Narcissus, curious to say, appears to have been always in a state of chronic con- 

 fusion, for we find Parkinson, two centuries and a half ago, complaining that no two catalogues were agreed as to 

 names, adding — " there hath been great confusion among many of our modern writers in not distinguishing the 

 manifold varieties of Daffodils," and with the view of setting the matter right, in his Paradisi, published A.D. 

 1629, he devotes forty pages to woodcuts and letterpress, illustrating and describing the various Narcissi. At 

 that time he had in his garden almost every variety which we at present possess, with other beautiful kinds now 

 evidently lost to cultivation. 



Herbert, two centuries later, in his A7naryllidacca, enters very fully into the nomenclature of the Narcissus, 

 making free use of his contemporaries, Salisbury, Haworth, and Ellacombe, who were all deeply versed in the 

 different forms and varieties of the Narcissus ; and from authors such as Parkinson, Miller, Linnaeus, Sweet, 

 Clusius, etc., and from the various Flerbariums, he drew largely in dealing with this fine family of bulbous plants. 



In 1869, J. G. Baker, Esq., of the Royal Herbarium, at Kew, modified the classifications of the various 

 writers on the Narcissus, and his classification, as cultivators, we have found most useful in our arrangement. 



