THE PRODUCTION" OF NARCISSUS BULBS 
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The first time such a propagation showed itself excessively in the 
department stocks was in a planting of large Victoria bulbs set in 
the fall of 1914 and dug in 1916. Of these 15,000 were separated and 
planted about 50 to the row in August, 1916. In two years they had 
reached 8 to 13 centimeters in size. To insure flowering it was found 
that a 12-centimeter bulb was necessary, although an 11-centimeter 
one would usually blossom, but not always. Subsequent years showed 
that these mostly split normally after they grow up to about 15 
centimeters. This 1916 stock is still carried and is scarcely dis- 
tinguishable from the parent stock or from selections of normally 
split bulbs made at the time. 
The objection to growing the small splits is the length of time it 
takes to do it. With proper fertility they can be planted 50 to the 
row and left two years. At this 
rate, 50,000 to 60,000 occupy 
only one-sixteenth of an acre. 
At the end of two years they 
can be dug and reset 14 and 
21 to the row, and at the end 
of another year they are mar- 
ketable as single-nosed bulbs. 
When space, labor, and scarcity 
of stock are considered, it is 
not at all certain but that it 
will pay to grow small splits 
rather than throw them away. 
Of course, when the ring splits 
are very prevalent in any 
stock it can not be marketed, 
and whether or not a grower 
plants his small splits will de- 
pend on whether he considers 
it more economical to take 
the regular smaller number of 
large offsets or the larger 
number of small ones with a 
ment. 
GREEN FLOWERS 
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Fig. 2. — Bulb of Victoria divided into nu- 
merous small, angular, naked splits 
longer period for their develop- 
For some reason not understood there is a tendency for the flowers 
of several of the double-flowered forms of daffodils to turn green. 
The most notable case is that of Double Van Sion, which all through 
the eastern United States not only turns green but the trumpet 
and perianth split to such an extent that the flower is of little or 
no value after the year of importation. Even the first year from the 
Netherlands a goodly percentage of the flowers often come green, and 
those yellow in color and of good trumpet are seldom more than a 
small percentage. (PL V, fig. 2.) 
This indicates that Netherlands conditions are far from ideal and 
that even the Dutch with generations of experience are not by any 
means able to produce the flower perfectly. The writer is informed 
that with them the percentage of green and badly split trumpets 
varies from year to year, as it does on Puget Sound. So far as it is 
possible to judge, there is little difference between the quality of the 
