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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



September io, 1898. 



A Beautiful New Daffodil. 



As the season of bulb planting is at hand, we venture once again to 

 remind our readers to order early and to plant early. There is scarcely 

 need nowadays to remind horticulturists of the beauty and usefulness of 

 the widely different species and varieties of narcissi, for their value is 

 well known even to those who do not grow them. In our present issue 

 we give an illustration of a splendid new bicolor, large trumpetted 

 daffodil, introduced last year by its raisers, Messrs. Barr and Sons, 

 Covent Garden and Long Ditton. It is a real beauty, as the illustration, 

 from a photograph taken in the spring of the present year at Long 

 Ditton, will show ; it is also a strong grower, and, for a new variety, is by 



HUNNEMANNIA FUMARI/EFOLIA. 



It is a great misfortune that this beautiful old Mexican plant is not 

 perfectly hardy, even in the warmer parts of this country, for not only does 

 it produce graceful, shapely and bright-hued blooms that do not soon 

 fade, but it possesses also an elegance and beauty of foliage decidedly 

 its own, notwithstanding that it is sufficiently like that of some fumitories 

 to have warranted Sweet in giving it the specific title of fumariasfolia. 

 The leaves are tri-ternately divided, that is to say, each leaf divides into 

 three when about an inch or so from the stem, and each of these 

 divisions again soon divides into three parts, which are further split 

 into three divisions. The final division is worthy of note, for as a rule 



LMUOn, Will siiuw , 11 « " 1> o — ' j — — — " ~~ — — j "v»iv-, iNji as a iuic 



no means high priced. To those who have not yet tested it, we can state the central lobe has three equal leaflets spreading from its apex, while 

 that it is also a good forcing variety. Since its first appearance in the two side lobes are like a long leaflet, with two leaflets springing 



NARCISSUS VICTORIA. 



public we have repeatedly drawn attention to the variety, and have from its side, and spreading to right or left according as they are on the 



nothing now to add to or detract from the opinion already expressed right or left of the centre Thus one leaf is composed usuauy, 



bSor SlJ CSe C °iT a • ° n P - l8f >7> we referred to it as " the new twenty-seven linear, blunt-ended leaflets, all of a pale, .gk^£J 



S°n ° na T d V ' ctona > a s P len did flower with whitish perianth and sometimes there is an add tfonal leaflet, and at others one « supp«?*£ 

 S2fdi™!? pe r : and °V he ceding page it is described as "a The genus HunnemaSis monotypic, and was founded *Yj^ 



w£n\^°lX^" y ? l a T Size ; the whitish P erianth sh ° WS UP the Wh0 named * in honom oTMr. J Hunneman, a zealous bjg-*gj 



SffiffiS as?certtfica!eV atter '? ^ T*£ 2* ^TP* ^ Wh ° did m ^h t0 ' mtKK T^^^ " 



award of merh f rom the r! u the Royal Botanic Society and an and Continental botanists, and, after a long and busy hie 



April 27, .897 resort veK y n Hort,cultura l Society on March 31 and London in 1837. The one species, H. fumarnxfoha, figured I in the p 



rnfiiic ,1 t^:..1*_ P. tue, y- On p. 27oof the present year, in "Daf- issue, was ntrrvW^ :« *q„ it i* a verv charming an " tWn 



fotlils at Ditton thU nlvl 7 ' ° n P* 2 79 of the present year, in « Daf- issue, was introduced in 1827. It is a very charming a " thern 



the Messrs B& J L 7 7„, C °? er Was referred to as folloWS " Vict ° ria ' P*™™!, but only half hardy In the drier, sheltered parts 0 Sou 



white perian h "nd Sld^ , r0dUCtl0n ' is a lovel y bicolor ' Creamy - En ^ land il ™y be wintered out of doors if caiefuHy Pyotertg 



VictoiE KSifiSiSSH thG latter finCly friUed at thC m ° Uth 5 perhapS the best method of cultivating it is to treat 'Us a b 



a spiend.d constitution, and irrows freely. The flowers are terminal and solitary, but as numerous gro»t 



