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in spring. In the case of Mr. Leeds we are more fortunate, for we have 
two coloured plates of his seedlings in the " Gardeners' Magazine of 
Botany" (vol. iii. pp. 169 and 289, 1853). In the former we have 
(1) N. poculiformis elegans, which is now called Leedsii elegans) (2) 
N. Leedsii, which is now incomparabilis ' Figaro ' ; and (3) N. major 
superbus, which never seems to have got into commerce. In the latter 
we have (1) N. aureo-tinctus , which obtained a F.C.C. from the Royal 
Horticultural Society in 1878 when exhibited by Messrs. Barr and 
Sugden ; (2) N. incomparabilis expansus, which was awarded the same 
honour in 1879 ; and (3) N. bicolor maximus, which is now the well- 
known and valuable late bicolor trumpet ' Grandee.' An additional 
point of interest in connexion with these plates is the fact that appended 
to them as part of the text are some hints on raising seedlings and their 
treatment contributed by the raiser himself. 
The most famous flower raised by Mr. Leeds is, I think, ' Princess 
Mary,' as it has entered so very largely into modern cross-fertilization. 
Almost every seedling-raiser at one time must have included it in his 
stock of trade. Other well-known flowers that we owe to him are 
' Frank Miles,' ' Katherine Spurrell,' ' Nelsoni major,' ' Captain Nelson,' 
and ' William Goldring.' 
Mr. Leeds died in 1877. A few years before his death, as he was in 
extremely poor health, he decided to sell his collection and wrote to 
Mr. Peter Barr, to whom he offered it for £100. How the money was 
found by Mr. Barr, the Rev. J. Nelson, Mr. W. B. Hume, Mr. H. J. 
Adams, and Mr. G. J. Braikenridge, and the entire collection saved 
is one of the heroics of Daffodil History. Saved, however, it was, and 
the varieties which it embraced were one of the foundation-stones 
of the marvellous collection got together by the Daffodil King, old Mr. 
Peter Barr. He worked long and lovingly amongst the gardens 
of Britain (as William Baylor Hartland did among the gardens of 
Ireland), and by about the year 1890 he had got together a very com- 
plete assemblage of all the best garden and wild varieties that were 
to be had. 
The coloured plate of ' Seagull,' ' Albatross,' and an unnamed 
Poet in The Garden newspaper for April 21, 1893, marks the commence- 
ment of what may be called the present-day era of seedling-raising. 
These flowers were the bell-wethers of the mighty host of wonderful 
seedlings which year by year have followed one another in unbroken 
succession from the Daffodil manufactories (to give his gardens a name 
which I have often heard him use) of the Rev. G. H. Engleheart. 
The advent upon the scene of all the beautiful novelties which have 
come from Appleshaw and Dinton has quite altered our views about 
Daffodils, and insensibly our standard of excellence has been raised. A 
sentence in a letter recently received from one of our best-known raisers 
of seedlings exactly hits the nail upon the head and expresses what all 
who in any way count themselves as Daffodil people feel. " One simply 
has to be hard-hearted. I am this year intending to burn many hundreds 
of bulbs of my seedlings, which I thought good two or three years back." 
