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Taking them in the above order, we have in the first instance 

 several forms or phases of the common Daffodil, in which the 

 staminal whorls (i.e., the anthers) are more or less transformed 

 into petaloid divisions. This occurs now and then with the com- 

 mon wild English Daffodil, " double " flowers having been found 

 sparingly amongst single ones in the Isle of Wight (St. Urian's 

 copse), and in Devonshire, Pembrokeshire, and elsewhere. This 

 is mentioned by Parkinson in 1629 as " Mr. Gerard his double 

 Daffodil," and as having been found in a woman's garden in the 

 West of England, where a cunning man had previously resided. 

 Some years ago Messrs. Barnaart and Sons introduced a double 

 Daffodil called " Silver and Gold," which resembles the double 

 English but is larger, its perianth lobes being nearly white, and 

 its coronal ones chrome yellow. It is earlier in flower than most 

 other doubles. Then we have Tradescant's great Kose Daffodil, 

 also mentioned by Parkinson, and another " double " one which 

 he distinctly tells us he raised himself from seeds of the great 

 Spanish Daffodil in the year 1618. Then there is " Mr. Wil- 

 mer's great Double Daffodil, " which Parkinson says "doth so 

 near resemble our ordinary English double kinde," that he can 

 see no difference except " the largenesse of both leaves and 

 flowers, and statelinesse of growth." The last named is our 

 large double garden Daffodil, or " Telamonius plenus " of bulb 

 lists to-day. It was flowered in 1620 by " Vincent [van] Sion, 

 born in Flanders, dwelling on the Bankside [? Strand], in his 

 lifestime, but now [1629] dead, — a worthy lover of faire flowers, 

 who cherished it in his garden for many years." (Parkinson's 

 " Paradisus," p. 104.) 



Van Sion supposed that he had received it from Mr. John de 

 Tranqueville (for from beyond sea he never received any). 

 It is the same as " Mr. Winner's Double Daffodil," for Parkinson 

 is careful to tell us that " Mr. George Wilmer, of Stratford 

 Bowe, Esq.," having, like Parkinson himself, received it from 

 Van Sion, " would needs appropriate it to himself, as if he were 

 the first founder thereof, and call it by his own name . . . which 

 since hath so continued." The double white Daffodil, N. cernuus 

 plenus, is very lovely in all its phases, but it is apt to die out in 

 rich manured soils, like other delicate rooted kinds. A small 

 double yellow (often greenish on rich soils) Daffodil was intro- 

 duced from an Irish garden a few years ago, and is now known 



