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CULTURE OF THE NARCISSUS. 
6. The most proper season for doing this, either in the borders or beds, is as 
soon as the tops have died down, which will happen some time in July. 
7. Always select a fine dry day for taking up the bulbs ; spread them on a mat in 
the sun to dry, for a few days, after which remove them to a cold shed, and spread 
them on the floor or other convenient place, (in preference to putting them in 
bags) until the planting season. 
8. Separate all the offsets, and treat them precisely the same as the old bulbs. 
9. Propagation by seeds. — Gather the seeds as soon as they are ripe, and sow 
them in pans or pots filled with light maiden soil ; place them in a situation not too 
much exposed to the sun until the end of September. 
10. At the end of September, set them in a frame, and screen them from heavy 
rains and frost ; allow them as much light as possible all winter, and by the end of 
March they will be up. 
11. About the end af May, when the frosts are over, take them out of the frame, 
and place them under an east wall during the summer. 
12. When the leaves are dead, give the pots a top-dressing with fresh soil, and 
treat them through the second winter, as recommended for the first. 
13. At the end of the second summer, turn them out of the pots, and plant 
them in beds of light sandy soil, about two and a half inches apart. 
14. After they have stood two years in this bed, replant them six inches apart 
in another bed, composed of equal parts of strong rich loam, leaf mould, and rotten 
cow-dung : here they will come into flower, after which they may be treated as the 
old bulbs. 
After a careful examination of the numerous species of this genius, A. H. 
Haworth, Esq. has divided them into sixteen genera, which he has named as 
follows : — 
1. Corbularia ( corbula , a little basket,) contains ten species, the hoop-petticoat 
family, as Pulbocodium , Albicans , &c. &c. 
2. Ajax (the brave Greek in the Trojan war;) the Daffodil family, as Pseudo- 
Narcissus, bicolor, &c. &c. ; twenty-four species. 
3. Oileus (poets’ lesser Ajax ;) the Clipt-trunk family, as Abscissus, hex angu - 
laris, &c. ; five species. 
4. Assaracus (brother of Ganymedes ;) two species, the Capax, and reflexus. 
5. Illus (another brother of Ganymedes ;) two species, the Cernuus , and tri- 
andrus. 
6. Ganymedes (cup-bearer to the gods;) five species, the pidchellus, concolor, 
&c. 
7. Diomedes, (a valiant Greek at the siege of Troy ;) three species, Macleayi of 
the Botan. Mag. being one of them. 
8. Pros (the father of Ganymedes ;) two species, as Galanthifolius, &c. 
9. Queltia (Nicholas Le Quelt ;) seven species, the Aurantia, &c. 
10. Schizanthes ( schizo to cut, anthe a flower, the crown gashed,) one species, 
the orientalis. 
