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allied. But on looking at the many varieties exhibited in the 

 conservatory, it was not, he said, likely that the people in the 

 country would take them and retain their true names. It was 

 therefore necessary that the Narcissus Committee should take 

 this question of naming in hand, and he was glad that Mr. 

 Engleheart was of the same opinion. In the raising of new 

 seedlings Mr. Eraser urged that only the best kinds should be 

 preserved. This system was carried out by market growers, who 

 only grew those kinds which they found the public would buy, 

 and he thought amateurs would do well to pursue a somewhat 

 similar course. 



NOTES ON NARCISSI, 1890. 



By Rev. A. Rawson, M.A., Windermere. 



The soil in my garden is a sandy loam, not the best for 

 Narcissus ; for though the common Pseudo-Narcissus grows wild 

 in great abundance all round, and is, in fact, a weed in some of 

 the meadows, a more holding soil seems to be required for most 

 of the varieties. I may specially instance maximus, spurius 

 coronatus, and similar sorts, which, though fine, do not grow 

 well here. The climate, apart from the soil, is very suitable for 

 Daffodils ; indeed, if we had the soil, I am not sure we should 

 not manage them as well as Mr. Hartland at Cork. We are 

 about twelve miles from the sea, with the gulf- stream running 

 up the coast, and the mean winter temperature is as high as that 

 of Kent, where I lived for many years ; added to which we have 

 a rainfall averaging nearly GO inches, in which the Narcissus 

 delights. The great drawback is "want of sun"; we cannot 

 get our bulbs so well ripened as in the south, and I have no 

 doubt that to this we may attribute our want of success in the 

 management of some varieties. 



I have annexed two lists of the sorts I hold most in esteem — 

 a first and a second list ; for though perhaps some in No. 2 list 

 ought to appear in No. 1, it is very difficult to make an exact 

 distinction, and as many are comparatively new varieties, re- 

 quiring further proof, I feel that, when grown for another year or 

 two, many may crop up to make me alter my opinion. At pre- 

 sent, in my estimation, for an all-round flower nothing beats 

 Horsfieldii. For habit of growth, beauty, and productiveness it 



