CHOICE NAMED HYACINTHS, AND DAFFODIL OR NARCISSUS. 
each — i. 
429 ‘Nectar, neat bells, fine truss, ex i 
430 fNightmgale, large fine truss, ex 2 
431 *Palx de l’Europe, large truss, ex o 
432 *Pavillon Blanc, large truss, ex o 
433 + Prince of Waterloo, compact truss, ex. ... o 
434 ‘Princess Frederick William, large fine 
truss, ex 1 
6 435 ‘Queen Victoria, handsome truss, ex 
o 436 ‘Queen of tlie Netherlands, large bells, 
9 ; very fine truss, ex 
9 437 ‘Snowball, fine truss, bells beautifully sym- 
.0 metrical, and of great substance, ex 
438 +Vainqueur,y£«* truss, ex 
o 439 fVan Hooboken, very large, ex 
WHITE SHADED ROSE, Etc. 
'440 fAnna Maria, blush, neat bells with violet 
— i. d. 
o 8 
o 9 
centre, good truss o 
441 ‘Anna Paulowna, white, shaded rose , com- 
pact large truss, ex o 
442 ‘Cleopatra, waxy white, large bells, thick 
fine truss, ex o 
443 ‘Dolly Varden, white, shaded rose, large 
bells, thick truss, ex 1 
444 ‘Elfrida, waxy white, large bells, bold hand- 
some truss, ex o 
445 ‘Grandeur a Merveille, white, shaded rose, 
immense compact truss, ex o 
8 
453 ‘Anna Carolina, beautiful primrose o 
454 ‘Bird of Paradise, beautiful rich prim- 
rose, fine truss, ex 3 
455 ‘Due de Malakoff, straw colour, striped 
rose-lake, novel colour, large truss, ex. ... o 
456 ‘Heroine, primrose, large truss, ex o 
457 ‘Ida, rich primrose, large truss, ex 1 
YELLOW, ORANGE, CITRON, PRIMROSE, Etc. 
446 +La Virginity, white, shaded, very large 
bells, good truss 
447 ‘Lord Grey, white, tinged rose, fine truss, ex. 
448 ‘Mammoth, white, tinged rose, very large 
bells, large truss 
449 ‘Princess Marie, white, rose shaded, large 
compact truss, ex 
450 ‘Seraphine, white, shaded rose, large bell's, 
very large truss, ex 
451 fTriumph Blandtna, white, beautifully 
tinged rose, pink centre, fine truss, ex. ... 
452 ‘Voltaire, white, shaded rose, large bells... 
458 fJaune Supreme, rich yellow, gsod truss... 
459 ‘John Stuart Mill, primrose, fine truss, ex. 
460 ‘King of Holland, apricot colour 
461 ‘La Citronniere, citron-yellow, very fine, ax. 
462 ‘L’Or d* Austral! a, fine yellow, large truss, ex. 
463 ‘Rowland Hill, new fine truss, ex 
464 ‘Victory, fine yellow, large truss, ex 
For Ntw Hyacinth Glasses, with Art-Cameo Figures , etc., see p. 48. 
DAFFODIL OR NARCISSUS. 
Twice the Royal Horticultural Society awarded to us the Gold Banksian Medal, and once the large Gold 
gilt Silver Floral Medal, also other Awards and Certificates, for our Exhibits of Daffodil flowers When 
Her Majesty opened the Royal Horticultural Society's Show on the and May, 1877, we received a 
Commemorative Gold Medal for our exhibit of more than a hundred different sorts of Daffodils. 
The Daffodil is the most beautiful of Spring flowers, and the hardiest and most enduring. Its blossoms are 
uninjured by frost, snow, rain, and wind, and continue a long time decorative. A selection made from the three 
groups will ensure a succession of flowers from February till |unc. The Trumpet Section of Daffodils commence 
flowering in February, and succeed each other till the end of April. The Peerless Section of Daffodils commence 
flowering in March, and follow each other in succession till May. The third group of Daffodils, which embraces 
the Poet's Narcissus, and the Tazetta or Bunch-flowered Daffodils, begin flowering early in April, and follow on 
one after the other till June. 
As cut flowers for vases, all the Daffodils are most elegant, and can be had in abundance at a season when 
flowers are scarce. They form a pleasing contrast, and associate admirably with hot-house flowers. During 
three months in Spring cut Daffodil flowers from our collection are exhibited at the various Spring Shows, 
Fortnightly Meetings, &c., of the Royal Horticultural Society, also at the Spring Flower Shows held at the Royal 
Botanic Gardens. The exhibition of these beautiful hardy flowers attracts more notice from the visitors, and elicits 
more admiration than the expensive exotics which have been grown under glass. 
t&$r NEW DAFFODILS.— The Weardale and Longford Bridge Collections of New Daffodils have received 
considerable publicity through our exhibits for the last few years ; but more especially during last Spring, as we 
were then enabled to stage them with their names, and are now in a position to offer for sale these charming 
new varieties. In doing so, we think it may not be uninteresting to notice that the Daffodil has been a favourite 
(lower in this country for hundreds of years; and were its literature collated, bulky volumes would be the result 
Parkinson, in the early part of the seventeenth century, catalogued the Daffodils then in cultivation. Two 
hundred years later Salisbury gave them considerable attention, and somewhat later Haworth and Dean Herbert 
contributed many papers on the subject of Daffodils, and separately prepared monographs of them from their 
respective points of view. A few years since Mr. Baker prepared his celebrated monograph of the Narcissi • 
but at that time he was not aware of the existence of the Weardale and Longford Bridge Collections, so that 
there is now a necessity for a revised monograph, owing to the number of forms in these two collections which 
Mr. Baker had not before him at the time he was preparing his monograph. ( Those who are desirous of acquaint- 
ing themselves more fully with the literature of the Daffodil, should purchase Burbidge’s admirable work, which 
is beautifully illustrated, and written in a most charming style, price 311. 6 d.) There exists no absolute data as 
to how the new varieties of Daffodils were produced, but doubtless the keynote was furnished in Deaa Herbert’s 
paper on the Hybridization of Narcissus. 
In the Longford Bridge Collection there are hybrids and varieties of exceeding beauty ; but in the Weardale 
Collection the work has been done so admirably that there is no difficulty in tracing in the flowers themselves 
the gradual steps taken in each cross. Indeed, the Weardale Collection might fairly be termed a Practical 
1 realise on Hybridization, by William Backhouse, Esq., of Weardale, where the reader is led by easy stages to 
the unfolding of a great work, which must have been produced by the most indefatigable labour combined with 
the most consummate skill. The work has been carried to the very pinnacle of excellence in gradation of size, 
diversity of form, and originality in shape and colouration. Indeed, ihc genius of this man is as conspicuous in 
his Daffodils as is that of the great masters in their sculpture and painting. 
T wo Coloured Plates of our New Daffodils can be had on application by intending purchasers, who are desirous 
of knowing more of these fine hardy flowers. Fora history of the new Daffodils see "The Garden," 2 \r'd August, 1879. 
Culture and Adaptation. — The Daffodil may be planted in almost any soil and situation, but thrives 
best in a fertile loam ; the top of the bulb should be two to three inches below the surface. In beds the larger 
flowering Daffodils arc charming, and for edgings the dwarf growing kinds are most beautiful. In flower and 
shrubbery borders, when grown in masses of distinct-varieties, the effect produced by the Daffodil is unequalled. 
For naturalization in woodland walks, semi-wild places, on the margins of plantations, and amongst grass, few 
hardy flowers look so natural and pleasing. 
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