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cultivation. Being unable to obtain seed from N. Johns toni, I 

 could not test its parentage analytically ,*but from crosses effected 

 between trumpet-Daffodils and N. triandrus I have raised the 

 flowers here before you, and others, which have put the origin of 

 the plant beyond question. This experiment has brought me a 

 double satisfaction, for it has not only solved a doubt, but given 

 birth to a new and extremely beautiful race of garden Narcissi — 

 pendulous, Fuchsia-like flowers of waxen substance and refinedf 

 colouring, which vary from pure white to delicate creamy tones 

 of yellow. 



I will now return to the garden forms of modern production,, 

 and state succinctly the results of my inquiry into their origin. 

 I have proceeded, whenever possible, both analytically and syn- 

 thetically, and by this double method have often secured double 

 proof. For example, the Leeds and Backhouse seedlings included 

 several kinds of pale trumpet Daffodils, such as cernuus pulcher r 

 "F. W. Burbidge," and others, presumably intermediate be- 

 tween the true white Daffodils and yellow sorts. From self- 

 fertilised seed of these pale trumpets I have obtained, sometimes; 

 from the same pod, both pure white and wholly yellow flowers,, 

 a reversion, or breaking-up into the original elements, which 

 points clearly to this parentage. Again, by intercrossing white 

 and yellow Daffodils I have raised pale seedlings which exactly 

 match these Leeds and Backhouse kinds. The two proofs- 

 together are conclusive. As already stated, from N. muticus 

 x N. poeticus I have produced N. Bernardi. My friend 

 Mr. Wol'ley Dod has completed the evidence by sending me a, 

 remarkable series of flowers, ranging in both outward form 

 and internal structure from poeticus through Bernardi to 

 muticus. These came from one sowing of self-fertilised seedy, 

 gathered in his garden from N. Bernardi. 



All the flowers grouped under the name N. incompar- 

 abilis are undoubtedly intermediate between the very variable 

 N. pseudo-Narcissus, Ajax, or trumpet Daffodil, and N poeticus. 

 N. Nelsoni and Backhousei really fall under the same heading, 

 the only distinction being that in their case the Ajax parent is 

 N. bicclor. Of this two forms have long been cultivated in Holland 

 and England, the one, to which I have already referred, having a, 

 cylindrical crown of stout substance, which in cross-fertilisa- 

 tion accounts for the form of flower seen in N. Nelsoni audi 



