CULTIVATION OF THE NARCISSUS IX GARDENS. 
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E. — Six very expensive varieties of very great merit and thoroughly 
good in constitution. 
Daffodils — 
Glory of Leiden. — Is best described as a huge * Emperor,' but is 
more refined in form ; a splendid flower of great substance when well 
grown and from a good stock. The cut flowers last a very long time (3). 
Bicolor Madame Pleynp. — Resembles a huge ' Horsfield ' ; a very 
good doer (3). 
Madame de Graaff— One of the largest, finest, and most distinct 
white Daffodils ; has substance and constitution as strong as a Bicolor, 
The trumpet, pale lemon at first, changes to a beautiful waxy white (4). 
Weardale Perfection. — The largest and most dignified Bicolor, but 
so high in price at present as only to be within the reach of a few 
growers (4). 
Star Naecissi— 
Incomparabilis Gloria Mundi. — One of the very best. In good 
seasons the dusky red of the cup contrasts finely with the yellow 
perianth. In some seasons, however, the red colouring comes too pale, 
and the flower a little coarse (4). 
Barrii Dorothy Wemyss. — The latest and, perhaps, the most beautiful 
of the Barrii section ; has a broader perianth than Barrii ' Crown 
Prince ' (5). 
Cultivation in Cold Frames. — With careful cultivation even finer 
flowers of some of the varieties may be obtained from bulbs grown in 
boxes and pots in well protected cold frames than will be generally pro- 
duced by the same varieties outside ; and there will be a little gain also 
in severe seasons in the earliness of flowering. I would advise those who 
have cold frame accommodation to grow a few bulbs, especially of the 
following varieties : — Tenby, Henry Irving, Pallidus incecox^ Albicans, 
Princess, Johnstoni Queen of Spain, Victoria, Emperor, Queen Bess, Sir 
Wathin, Barrii conspicuus, Oimatus,Tenuior,Intermedius Sunset (all these 
in boxes). Also the small growing kinds: — Triandrus albus, Juncifolius, 
and Minor (in pots and pans). Others, of course, may be added, but 
these are a few kinds I find especially useful and good grown in this way. 
The results will depend on the attention which is given to details, and 
I venture to give some advice for those who have not as yet had experience 
in this kind of plant growing. For the deeper rooting kinds you can get 
strong wooden boxes from your grocer, about 7 inches deep by 8 inches 
wide and 20 inches long. Make holes for drainage in the bottom. Put 
some lumps of charcoal at the bottom and cover them with some half- 
rotten turf and fill with a mixture of good fibrous loam and good sandy 
and gritty soil, and a little stick- ashes, and in the boxes in which you 
intend to plant any strong-growing sorts (but not where delicate sorts are 
to grow) mix in a little artificial manure, or a little very old and rotten cow- 
manure, so old as to have become almost like soil. Plant the bulbs as 
early as possible in August, not too thickly, but about 2 or 3 inches apart 
each way (the very small bulbs closer), and only just buried in the soil. 
Then pack all the boxes and pots side by side in some open space (on level 
