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historical details in connection with seedling Narcissi is the 

 manner in which Mr. Leeds's progeny came into the market. 

 When in failing health, about 1874, he decided to sell his entire 

 stock, and wrote to Mr. Barr about them, asking £100 for his 

 collection, saying that if they did not realise that sum he would 

 destroy them by "digging them in." Eventually Mr. Barr, and 

 the late Bev. J. G. Nelson, Mr. Burnley Hume, Mr. G. J. 

 Brackenridge, and Mr. H. J. Adams, subscribed the amount of 

 the purchase-money, and thus the collection was saved to science 

 and to our gardens. The result was that the Leeds seedlings 

 came into commerce and general cultivation instead of being lost 

 or destroyed. 



These six varieties are fully described, and two coloured 

 plates are devoted to their portraiture, in Moore and Ayre's 

 Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, vol. iii., plates 169 and 289. 



The varieties are as follows : — 



1. N. pocidiformis elegans (now called N. Leedsii elegans), a 



seedling from N. montanus crossed with pollen of N.poeticus 

 angustifolius. 



2. N. Leedsii (now called N. "Figaro"), an orange-cupped 



variety of N. incomparabilis, obtained by crossing Daffodil 

 major with N. poeticus. 



3. N. major superbus. Supposed by Mr. Leeds to be a seedling 



from Daffodil major, or maximus. 



4. N. aureo-tinctus (now called N. incomparabilis " Fair Helen "), 



origin not certainly known. Mr. Leeds thought it a cross 

 from N. propinguus with pollen of N. odorus. 



5. N. incomparabilis expansus (now called N. "Bianca"), from 



N. major by pollen of N. poeticus. 



G. N. bicolor maximus. From N. bicolor crossed with N. pro- 

 pinguus or N. maximus. 



Our history of raisers would be incomplete without a word as 

 to Mr. John Horsfield, a Lancashire weaver, who raised the cele- 

 brated and noble bicolour Daffodil which bears his name. It is 

 supposed to have been raised about 1845, or about ten years 

 before Horsfield's death, when the stock of thirty-seven bulbs, 

 large and small, were sold, twenty-eight of them realising one 



