THE NARCISSUS. 



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known under the popular names of " Butter and Eggs," " Orange 

 Plicenix," " Sulphur Phoenix," and " Eggs and Bacon." 



The double Poet's Narcissus is a late flowering plant, and is 

 thought to be the double phase of N. patellaris, and it is com- 

 monly known as the "Gardenia-flowered Narcissus." N. Jon- 

 quilla is a slender- stalked, golden-yellow double, often forced in 

 gardens for decorative purposes, and, like its single type, is very 

 fragrant. N. odorus fl. pi. is believed to be a double phase of 

 N. odorus rugulosus, and is often known as " Queen Anne's Jon- 

 quil " or " Double Tags." 



As I have said, all these " double " flowers are reversions, and 

 they are often perfect abortions so far as the reproductive organs 

 of the flowers are concerned. This is not always the case, how- 

 ever, for now and then the style, and an anther or two, are per- 

 fectly normal, and then seeds may be produced from which a 

 double variety has been propagated. 



So far as I know, N. Telamonius plenus and the pale double 

 English are the only varieties that have so far been reproduced 

 in this way. 



The origin of these double flowers is by no means clear, but 

 on examination we find that there is a reduplication of parts, in 

 part due to the metamorphoses of some or all of the fertile 

 stamens into petals, and by the partial splitting up, or unbuilding 

 as it were, of the flower itself. 



The Best of all the Naecissi. 



Seeing that there are now in cultivation from six to seven 

 hundred varieties of Narcissi, it has occurred to me that a list of 

 about a hundred of the best variations would prove serviceable 

 to those inexperienced amateurs who would like a selection of 

 these flowers. 



Yellow Daffodils. 



Ard Righ (Yellow King), Henry Irving, Maximus, Golden 

 Spur, General Gordon (spurius coronatus), Obvallaris (Tenby), 

 Countess of Annesley, Emperor, Glory of Leyden, Saragossa, 

 Rugilobus, John Nelson, Captain Nelson, Princeps, Cornish 

 Yellow, Telamonius plenus, Eystettensis plenus, Minor, Nanus, 

 Minimus, Cyclamineus, Bulbocodium, Conspicuus, Citrinus, 

 Monophyllus. 



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