AMERICAN BULBS UNDER GLASS 11 
cut-flower purposes, and the bulbs in most cases have not been up to 
best standards in either size or firmness, but they have flowered well. 
DOUBLE CAMPERNELLE 
The Double Campernelle deserves a much wider use than is made 
of it. It is large, handsome, double, floriferous, sweet scented, 
midseason, and has a good shade of yellow. As a commercial 
bulb it has decided merit, for the space it occupies is small; the 
bulbs can be set almost solid in the flats. It can be potted nearly 
twice as thick as Golden Spur and when well grown is fully as florif- 
erous. Although it can be flowered satisfactorily under glass, some- 
what greater attention to humidity and temperature is required with 
it than with Golden Spur, Victoria, or other easily forced varieties. 
The Double Campernelle seems better adapted to warmer climates 
than most of the Dutch varieties. Regions from the Carolinas south 
seem to be suited for it as well as for the Single Campernelle and the 
true jonquils. At Bellingham, Wash., it has grown fairly well, but 
has never fully met expectations. 
VICTORIA 
Victoria (pi. 3, D) is a splendid daffodil and an easy and 
early forcer. Its great drawback is the excessive propagation of 
small naked bulbs which take three years to grow to merchantable 
size. Even then the bulbs, although flowering well and regularly, are 
mostly smaller than the purchaser is accustomed to. 
In the stocks of Victoria forced there was usually an abun- 
dance of the small ring splits (horse teeth), although the blossoming, 
as will be seen, has been very satisfactory and up to the standard for 
normal bulbs. The writer is not prepared to recommend definitely 
what should be done eventually with these small bulbs, but for the 
present it may be profitable to grow them up to flowering size, which 
can be done in three years under good cultural conditions. The job 
can be accomplished most profitably on an intensive cultural basis. 
With good fertility, about 800,000 may be grown on an acre for two 
years and about 225,000 the third year if the Dutch method of culture 
is followed. The 3-year period of culture gives a firm, round bulb 
which will produce a single flower of good quality. The advantage 
of a maximum-sized bulb may not be so obvious, especially if bulbs 
are destroyed after forcing. It is probable that Victoria will even- 
tually be discarded on account of this characteristic, but it can not be 
dispensed with for some years if we are to depend upon our own 
production. There is a probability that Victoria may eventually 
give way to Spring Glory, Glory of Sassenheim, or some similar 
variety. 
It is, of course, possible to true up the variety by selection and 
thus in a measure get rid of the small splits. The tendency to their 
formation is in the variety, however, and constant watchfulness is 
necessary in order to keep the stock free. But good results are ac- 
complished by maintaining the best of cultural conditions and culling 
out and destroying undesirable individuals whenever they occur. 
Under Atlantic Coastal Plain conditions this variety has proved to 
be a rather poor keeper. Complaints are made that it rots badly when 
