COMMONPLACE NOTES. 



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Triple Daffodil. 



Twin-flowered Trumpet Daffodils are none too common, but never 

 before have we seen a triplet as in fig. 115. It is a Trumpet Bicolor, 

 grown by C. W. Cowan, Esq., in his garden at Valleyfield. Pennycuick, 

 but the particular variety was not noticed when it was gathered. It is 



Fig. 115. — Triple-flowered Trumpet Daffodil. 



not thought to have been altogether due to fasciation, as the stem only 

 showed two stems blended together. 



Fairy Rings. 



" I should be glad to know the best method of cure and also the cause 

 of so-called ' Fairy Rings ' forming on lawns." These rings are caused 

 by various kinds of fungi, generally, but not universally, of the Agaricus 



