XXXvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



1910. — Wet and cold all through flower - 



1911. — Hot, dry, and sunny. 



ing season. Very fcio insects about. 



Pods. Seeds. 



' Madame de Graaf ' . . .1 3 



' Cassandra ' . . . .1 4 



' Musidorns ' . . . .1 3 



' Moscbatus ' . . . . 1 10 



Result 



Pod. Seeds. 



4 pods. 



' Madame de Graaf ' . 1 5 



' Princess Mary ' . . 1 21 



' Emperor ' . . . 1 7 



' Weardale Perfection ^ . 1 11 



' White Wings ' . .3 together 17 



' Artemis ' . . . 1 5 



' Alice Knights ' . . 1 5 



' Lulworth ' . . , 1 4 



'Felicity' . „ . 2 42 



'Apricot' ... 2 36 



' Lady Audrey ' . . 1 6 



' Horace ' . . . 2 32 



' Albicans ' . . . 1 10 



' Moschatus ' . . . 1 8 



'Virgil' .... 1 23 



' Lady M. Boscawen ' . 2 19 



' Mabel Cowan ' . . 1 9 



' Cernuus ' . . . 2 49 



' Rhymester ' . . , 1 30 



' Musidorus ' . . . 1 4 



' King Alfred ' . . . 1 2 



' Sir Watkin ' . . . 1 5 



' T. B. M. Cannon ' . . 1 2 



Total . 



. 30 pods. 



" I have never known * Sir Watkin ' or ' T. B. M. Cannon ' to be 

 self-pollinated (?) before. 



" The insects were ' all over the place,' and all day long, in 1911, 

 and the Dutchmen now leave a great deal of the pollination to them ; 

 but the percental results of very good varieties are not so great as with 

 systematic cross-fertilization, although the 'natural insects,' as Van 

 Waveren calls them, have on occasions shown considerable judgment 

 in the crosses which they have made. " Mr. P. E. Barr found that self- 

 fertilized seedlings of garden varieties of Daffodils tend to revert to 

 their parent types — e.g. Horsfieldii self-fertilized produces numerous 

 poor forms of Pseudo-narcissus. ' King Alfred,' on the contrary, pro- 

 duces some very pretty yellow trumpet forms, as a rule more or less- 

 dwarf than their parents. Mr. Backhouse remarked, in reference to 

 the common belief that single wild Daffodils may sport to double forms, 

 that seedlings resulting from the first cross between the single wild form 

 and the double one would, some of them, be double, and the idea 

 might have arisen in another way as well — viz. by bringing into gardens 

 poor, and practically single because poor, forms of double Daffodils 

 which under better cultivation would become typically double. Against 

 this, however, is the fact that the true double form of the wild Daffodil 

 is rare in cultivation, 'Van Zion ' being the form commonly grown. 



Narcissus calatKinus x minimus. — Mr. Chapman showed a hybrid 

 between these two species having the unusual character, which it 

 shares with N. triandrus 'pulchellus, of a corona paler than the 

 perianth pieces, the difference being quite evident. A Certificate of 

 Appreciation was unanimously voted to Mr. Chapman in recognition 

 of his work in raising this hybrid. 



Malformed Narcissus. — -Sir Frederick Moore sent a £ower of a 



