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SEEDLING DAFFODILS SELECTED TO GROW ON 

 AT BRODIE CASTLE. 



By Ian Brodie, of Brodie. 



When I first began to grow Daffodils (it was in 1898), I had no sort 

 of guide to tell me what flowers to grow, or, when grown, how they 

 should best be mated so as to produce children who would be a credit 

 to their parents (and to their godfather). I worked entirely in the 

 dark, blindly feeling my way. The result was that, for some years 

 after the seedlings began to bloom, I searched in vain for a flower 

 that could really be called a flower. Things are better now, but still 

 a beginner requires help ; and it is in the hope that the following 

 notes may be of some use in that direction I have had the temerity 

 to send them for publication. I have added, at the end, a short 

 list of more or less inexpensive varieties which I have found useful 

 for breeding ; but in case the novice is more ambitious the following 

 are also very good as parents : 



Monarch. Miss Clinch. Lord Kitchener. 



Ben Alder. Vestal Virgin. Hypatia. 



Mrs. Ernst Krelage. Morven. Emerald Eye (pollen). 



White Emperor. 



48/11 = Bernardino x Poet — very good; the cup has a wire edge of red, 

 93/11 = Great Warley x Lord Kitchener — very large Leedsii. 



107/11 = 23/06 (King Alfred x Weardale) x Felspar — bicolor Incomparabilis, 



230/11 = Dorothy x Kestrel. 



262/11 = Will Scarlett x Bernardino — three selected. 

 288/11= Red Chief x Kingsley. 



326/11 = 358/02 (Cassandra x Bernardi var.) x Dark Red-crowned Seedling — 



the darkest bit of colour I have yet seen. 

 354/11 = 691/05 (Mrs. Bowley x Will Scarlett) x Kestrel. 



398/11 = 793/05 (Cassandra x Recurvus Seedling) x 557/05 (Mrs. Bowley x 

 Foet) . 



421/1 1 = Minnie Hume x Moonbeam. 

 1 99/11 = Minnie Hume x Empire. 



446/10 = Aftermath x 662/04 (Lulworth x Virgil) — a large and much improved 

 Aftermath, 



447/10 = Beacon x 662/04 (Lulworth x Virgil). 



456/11 = Moonbeam x Matthew Arnold — a tall pure white ixower. 

 45 1 /i 1 = Moonbeam x Seabird — a good flower, pure white with Seabird 

 perianth ; tall. 



340/11 = 261/05 (Santa Maria x Weardale) x Dark Yellow Ajax Seedling. 

 307/1 1 = Cassandra x Creole (Princess Mary x Will Scarlett). 

 145/11 = Minnie Hume x Lemon Star. 



523/12 = 254/08 (Comus x Barrii var.) x Socrates — two selected, 

 272/12 = Giraffe x Bernardino — two selected, one a Leedsii and the other 

 an Incomparabilis. 



131/12 = 23/06 (King Alfred x Weardale) x 48/05 (M. J. Berkeley x King 

 Alfred) — two selected ; tall and very large and decorative yellow 

 Ajax. 



607/12 = 557/05 (Mrs. Bowley x Poet) x Matthew Arnold. 



671/12 = Oliver Goldsmith x Hildegarde. 



484/12 = 358/02 (Cassandra x Bernardi var.) x Socrates, 



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