gEPTEMBEB J*4j 1912. 



THE GARDENERS^ MAGAZINE. 



705 



VANILLA'SCENTED 



DAFFODIL. 



The time being at hand when orders for 

 bulbs are usually compiled, I am pleased 

 to be able to direct attention to the quali- 

 ties possessed by the above-named trumpet 

 daffodil. Complaint is often heard that 

 some of the new high-priced daffodils are 

 not suflSciently distinct from one another 

 to warrant the charges made, which, how- 

 ever, does not apply to the one under 

 notice, and as it is listed by the Raynes 

 Park firm at a comparatively rr--i — 



In the future scented narcissus will pro- 

 bably be more prominent in the open garden 

 than in the past, thus adding another 



ch[ 



in tne past, 

 and enhancing the present popu- 

 larity of this greatly varied family. 



James Day. 



HARDY FUCHSIAS. 



The fact that some of our hardy fuchsias 

 are very pretty has been long recognised, 

 but that there is such a great variety 

 among them as actually exists is not so 

 oderate generally known. At the meeting of the 



digue, a tall grower, 

 coloured flowers, a cross between one of 

 the garden varieties and an original spe- 

 cies ; Elysee, another from the same source, 

 of a decidedly erect habit of growth, with 

 single, dark-coloured blossoms ; Myrtifolia 

 Minos, a compact, bushy plant, little more 

 than a foot high, with a great profusion of 

 semi-double flowers, with red sepals and 

 purple corolla ; Drame, a rather tall 

 grower of compact habit, 

 bluish-purple flower ; and Florian, 

 sturdy,, free growth, with a long purple 

 corolla. Another very distinct variety 

 was Brightoniensis, which forms a globular 



with semi-dark- 



with a 



single 

 of 



a 



-'i 



NARCISSUS DUKE OF BEDFORD. 

 A handsome bicolor of strong growth, the flowers large, with white perianth and yellow trumpet 



^te It will undoubtedly be largely grown 



ami 41 "^^^ ^^^^^ f i^oo"^ deeoration 



f Z ^^^servatory, and the delicious per- 



Anl .?^^^ appreciated by most persons. 



part trom this, the fully-expanded flowers 

 ar^ p ^^^P colour, and length of stem— 

 thn. • majority of noted sort«, 



amnlf 7 ^ ^^^^^ ^^'<^ a cluster of 

 ^'iipie tohage. 



or f^i? *^':!f fi^e bulbs planted in soil 

 Pot Z^x^^^^'^ confines of a six-inch 

 ing S ^^"^^^ gradually on to the flower- 

 omi+lnl^ "^'^^ ^^^^"^ ^'^^^ in bloom to 



known i'^^^i ^^^""^ ^ ^^^^ P^-^sence 



n a large room or entrance hall. Lemoine, of Nancy, namely, Enfant Pro- 



Royal Horticultural Society, on August 13, 

 a most interesting collection of fuchsias 

 was shown, as stated in your report, by 

 Mr. L. Russell. Some eighteen varieties of 

 hardy fuchsias were included, and twelve 

 or twenty of each variety were staged, and 

 in this way their distinctive characters and 

 general efl^ect could be well seen. Of 

 course, some of the varieties were familiar 

 ones, but, on the other hand, some were 

 decidedly uncommon. They were, for the 

 most part, in five-inch pots, and had all 

 passed the winter plunged outside. Some 

 of them were raised many years ago by M. 



specimen about a foot high, and profusely 

 laden with pretty distinct flowers, in which 

 the rosy-purple corolla stands out crinoline 

 fashion. Others were the old Fuchsia gra- 

 cilis, F. gracilis variegata, F. globosa, F. 

 Riccartoni, F. Thomsoni, like a small form 

 of gracilis ; Tricolor, pale rose sepals and 

 lilae-purple corolla, suggesting somewhat a 

 small-growing form of the old Rose of 

 Castile ; Madame Cornellison, with a white 

 corolla; pumila, a dense, twiggy, upright 

 plant, with tiny pointed leaves, and a pro- 

 fusion of very small dark flowers; virgata, 

 like a strong-growing gracilis; and Coral- 

 Una, a good old well-known kind, S. W- 



