THE PRODUCTION OF NARCISSUS BULBS 25 
area in the country, but the middle Atlantic Coastal Plain seems 
well suited, as does also the Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana section. 
At present there is great activity in Michigan, where soil of suitable 
texture is abundantly available. 
The Polyanthus group, on the contrary, with the exception of the 
Poetaz section, is generally tender and must be confined in its culture 
to the warmer sections, such as coastal California and the Gulf coast 
region. The greatest activity in their production up to this time has 
been the California coast as far north as Humboldt County, but 
more particularly from the San Francisco Bay region to Santa 
Cruz, where they are used mainly in the cut-flower trade, although 
good bulbs have been produced. In the South there has been longer 
experience in southern Georgia and northern Florida than elsewhere. 
There are indications that an occasional frost which cuts the flowers 
does not necessarily inhibit the production of good bulbs, especially 
of Paperwhite Grandiflora. The indications are, therefore, that the 
areas adapted to the production of these bulbs are wider than has 
heretofore seemed probable. 
EELATIVE USE OF VARIETIES 
The varieties of the genus Narcissus which are used in quantities 
by florists are comparatively few in number. At the head of the list 
must be placed Paperwhite Grandiflora, produced mostly now in the 
warm climate of southern France. The next in importance to this is 
doubtless Golden Spur, which has two features which recommend it, 
a fine color and its early forcing quality. After these two in point of 
quantity come Emperor, Double Van Sion, Victoria, Empress, Glory 
of Sassenheim, Joss Flower (Chinese sacred lily), Grand Soleil d'Or, 
Conspicuus, Princeps, Sir Watkin, Ornatus, Madame de Graaff, and 
a number of other varieties of lesser use. In recent years both King 
Alfred and Van Waveren's Giant have come to the front remarkably. 
Both are still too high priced, and the stocks of them are too- limited 
for first quantity use,, but florists are, using all they can get of them 
now, and it is thought that their use will continue to increase unless 
some of the newer varieties come forward to replace them. There 
are many other good forcing varieties, of course, but it is believed 
that these have the greatest use. 
The varieties employed in garden and naturalized field decoration 
alone have a large use also, and it is believed that such employment 
is on a rapid increase, but the numbers employed for these purposes 
are small compared with the numbers used for forcing, largely be- 
cause out-of-door plantings persist year after year, while the forcing 
stocks are purchased anew each season. 
BREEDING DAFFODILS 
Breeding daffodils is a big subject and can be only touched upon 
here. It is broached at this time simply because it is barely possible 
that some seedlings produced here may serve better than imported 
stocks. This has been true with our fruits and may prove to be 
equally so with the daffodil. It is fully realized that some may think 
that this subject is quite exhausted after so much work has been done, 
but this is far from the fact in the case. There are already one or two 
