SINGLE NARCISSUS. 
NARCISSUS. 
The Narcissus is a very fine class of early blooming flowers, including the well known Daf- 
fodil and Jonquil. Most of the varieties are hardy, and should be planted in the autumn, like the 
Hyacinth, but may remain in the ground a 
number of years, after which they will become 
so matted together as to make a division of 
the roots necessary. 
The Single JS/arcisstis is extremely hardy 
and popular as a border tlower, and the cen- 
tral cup being of a different color from the 
six petals, makes the flower exceedingly at- 
tractive. Some have the petals of a light 
yellow and the cup orange ; others have the 
petals white and the cup yellow ; while the 
Poet's Narcissus [Narcissus poetictcs,) some- 
times called Pheasant's Eye, is snowy white, 
DOUBLE NARCISSUS. the cup cream color, with a delicate fringed 
edge of red, which gives its latter name. The Double varieties are very desirable. The common 
Daffodil is well known under that name, though not so well by its true one. Van Sion. 
The most beautiful class of the Narcissus family, however, is the Polyanthus Narcissus. The 
flowers are produced in clusters or trusses of from half a dozen to three times this number. 
Like the others, they show every shade of color, from the purest imaginable white to deep orange. 
The Polyanthus Narcissus is not quite 
hardy in this climate, unless planted in a 
sandy soil, and well covered before winter, 
and then often fails ; further South it does 
well. For flowering in pots in the house 
the Polyanthus Narcissus is unsurpassed, 
and nothing can be more satisfactory for 
this purpose. The Jonquils are also de- 
sirable for winter flowering. Three or four 
may be grown in a small pot. Try them in 
the house this winter; you will find nothing 
sweeter. The Polyanthus Narcisstis will 
also flower well in glasses of water, like the 
Hyacinth, and it is desirable to grow a few 
in this way, yet nothing looks so natural and 
nice as a good healthy plant in a neat pot of 
TRUMPET NARCISSUS. 
POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS. 
earth, and no other method leaves the bulb in a sound, healthy condition for the next season. 
SCILLAS. 
The SciLLA is the brightest and prettiest and hardiest of the early spring flowers. When the 
Crocuses are in bloom the little modest S. Siberica and .5". campanu- 
lata may be seen throwing up a little cluster of flowers of the most in- 
tense blue imaginable. The flower stem is only about four inches, and 
is just the pretty flower that everybody craves for the button hole. The 
plant flowers without showing a leaf. After the flowers are gone the 
leaves appear, and these should not be injured. Many, after the flower 
has disappeared, remove the leaves so as to make room for other plants, 
but this course injures the bulbs unless the leaves are pretty well matured. 
No bulb is more hardy or more competent to take care of itself. The 
bulbs are quite small, as is also the plant, and, like all small bulbous 
rooted plants, look best and are less likely to be destroyed if grown in 
little masses — a dozen or so in a group. When small bulbous roots are 
SCILLA. scattered over the garden singly, they are almost certain to be destroyed 
especially where help in cleaning up the garden is occasionally employed. 
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