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great interest. He has been working at Daffodils for a long 

 course of years, and will be able to tell us much that we do not 

 at present know. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CULTIVATION OF THE 

 TRUMPET DAFFODIL. 



By the Rev. C. Wolley-Dod, M.A. 



N. corbularia stands first on the list of trumpet Daffodils. 

 Only one variety of this is quite hardy in my garden in Cheshire, 

 var. citrina. I do not mean to say that the others are killed 

 by frost in winter, but the meteorological conditions and mean 

 soil temperature do not suit them. Citrina is the only one 

 found in Europe outside the Spanish Peninsula, and that does not 

 extend far outside. A line drawn from Bordeaux to Bagneres de 

 Bigorre in the Pyrenees will define its extra limits, and it 

 seems to extend all through the northern provinces of Spain. 

 The size of the flower varies from that of the smallest to the 

 largest of the corbularice. This, and all others that I have 

 grown, ripen seed in cultivation abundantly, which is easily 

 raised, flowering the fourth year. I only further remark that 

 the white corbularia described by Clusius has been wrongly 

 referred to the Algerian variety monophylla, which was never 

 found in Europe ; it was var. Gracllsi, which is marked by 

 its green perianth. Coming to the species 1^1. pseudo-narcissus, 

 which in Mr. Baker's arrangement includes all the other kinds 

 of trumpet Daffodil, its natural distribution has been so greatly 

 modified by the hand of man that it is difficult to define its 

 limits. Even where we find it naturalised, we cannot always 

 tell whether it was introduced there as a wild variety, or one 

 raised in cultivation. Let us take an example : Ireland is a 

 country where the soil and climate are especially well suited for 

 the growth of the Daffodil, and in Ireland we find some very 

 fine varieties apparently wild. But Bentham, one of our best 

 authorities on the distribution of plants, says that Ireland is 

 outside the range of N. 2> seu d°- narc i ssus ' Where did these 

 Daffodils come from, and when ? Italy seems the most likely 

 source. Ard Righ, a large self yellow variety, seems like a 

 development of large Italian forms ; another, called princess, 



