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said it would be found that tins Daffodil ''fibred" before any- 

 other, and this was a sure sign that it should then be planted. 

 He gave the merits of Empress and Horsfteldii as he found 

 them, but it was clear that one could not get every plot of land 

 to grow a collection equally well, for he noticed that Horsfieldii 

 did better in some soils than Empress, but, on the whole, 

 Empress did best with him in every way. Mr. Walker said he 

 thought the Tenby Daffodil would never become popular in the 

 neighbourhood of London, simply because there was too much 

 manure in the soil. Pallidus prcecox dies out under cultivation, 

 and it is not a favourite in the market. He did not know the 

 reason why, but perhaps the ladies could explain that better 

 than he. 



j$| Mr. Jenkins, in reference to manure, said that at the 

 present time he could show many thousands of Tenby Daffodils 

 of the best variety which were grown in soil which had been 

 manured for several years in succession. He thought it was 

 more a question of soil than of the dung-cart, and he could not 

 agree with keeping bulbs free from dung. 



Mr. Buebidge said he hated manure in the cultivation of 

 plants, but its use depended to a great extent on the moisture of 

 the soil. If the land were well drained a great deal of difference 

 would be made. In reference to an appeal as to the Tenby 

 Daffodils grown in manured soil, Mr. Burbidge said that Mr. 

 Jenkins had the finest set of Tenby Daffodils he ever saw in his 

 life. 



The Rev. W. Wilks said : There can, I think, be no doubt 

 whatever but that the Daffodil as a flower is rapidly growing 

 and increasing, and most deservedly so, in popular favour, and 

 one of the principal results of this Conference will, I hope, be to 

 call the attention of people to the fact that a vast number of 

 beautiful forms and varieties of the flower may be quite as easily 

 cultivated as the few sorts hitherto commonly found. I do not 

 think that I should have risen to say anything had it not been 

 for a remark which fell from Mr. Fraser that "of course 

 amateurs cannot produce such fine flowers as market or trade 

 growers do." Now that is a statement which I venture entirely 

 to traverse. In my humble opinion an amateur can grow quite 

 as good flowers as any trade grower. The amateur, of course, 

 has this disadvantage in exhibiting, that whereas his professional 



