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seed of Tenby gathered in my garden. It abounds in Italy in the 

 valley of the Arno, mixed with a large single Italian variety, into 

 which it passes by every degree from full double. It is also 

 found in the south of France, growing with the concolorous major , 

 where perhaps both may be of cultivated origin. Lately, Captain 

 Dorrien- Smith sent me from Scilly a twin bulb of the Tenby 

 Daffodil, both divisions being included in one tunic, one-half 

 bearing a typical Tenby single flower, the other a large double 

 Telamonius. Mr. Engleheart sent me a few years ago from 

 Hampshire a large number of seedlings from the large garden 

 double and the wild single grown together, no other Daffodil 

 being near. These produced a remarkable variety of single and 

 double forms in a series of varying size, and the doubles retain 

 their relative size after several years' cultivation. I infer that a 

 double Daffodil, though occasionally a sport, is often, as it were, 

 a new departure springing from seed, and that it does not of 

 necessity follow the form of the seed parent ; also that there is 

 a tendency in the double seedlings of large Daffodils to assimilate 

 to one type. Doubles are not always represented by corre- 

 sponding singles, and there are probably far more varieties of 

 doubles in existence than is generally supposed. Dr. Stuart, of 

 Hillside, in Berwickshire, lately sent me several very distinct 

 forms of small double Daffodil which he found naturalised in a 

 field where two or three single dwarf kinds were growing. 



Of the five sections into which I divided N. pseudo-narcissus , 

 Nos. 1, 2, and 4 have produced doubles. I have never seen a 

 double of pallidas or muticus, or of any of this class. 



One more point may be noticed about doubles : we see forms 

 in which the crown only is double, its outline being preserved 

 unbroken, and forms in which the doubling is full like a double 

 Rose. Some kinds seems to assume one form rather than the 

 other. The wild pseudo-narcissus of Britain and the double 

 said to be of cernuus generally take the semi-double shape ; but 

 there is no essential difference, and all pass from one form to 

 the other according to soil, season, and cultivation. With me 

 the semi-double forms certainly represent a more healthy and 

 more robust condition of growth in all Daffodils ; when they 

 break the trumpet and become full double, they are often 

 beginning to deteriorate, but this season nearly all my double 

 wild bulbs and double cernuus have produced rose-double 



