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BARR AND SON, 12, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 
Tazetta, or Bunch-flowered Polyanthus Daffodils— 
continued. 
Laticolor,+ perianth pale lemon, cup yellow. 
Perdoz., 5s. 6d. ; each, 6d. 
Laura, perianth primrose, cup orange. 
Lord Canning, perianth primrose, cup yellow. 
Per doz., 5s. 6d.; each, 6d. 
Mercurius, perianth primrose, cup orange. 
Schizanthbs Orientalis, perianth primrose, cup 
yellow, elegantly lobed. This forms the genus 
Schizanthcs of Haworth, and is figured in Bot. 
Mag., t. 948, as N. orientalis p, but subsequently 
under t. 1298 referred to N. incomparabilis. 
Per doz , 3s. 6d. ; each, 4d. 
Sir Isaac Newton, perianth yellow, cup orange. 
Per doz. , 4s. 6d. ; each, 6d. 
White, with White Cup. 
CANARiENSiS.f perianth and cup white, small neat 
flower. 
*DUBIUS,+ perianth and cup white. (Burbidge states 
that it grows about Toulon, Marseilles, Avignon, 
and Nice ; will some one send flowers to one of 
the Horticultural Society’s meetings in 1885 ?) 
Tazetta, or Bunch-flowered Polyanthus Daffodils— 
continued. 
Pachybulbus,+ perianth and cup white, small 
neat flower. 
PAPYRACEUSf (unicolor, niveus), perianth and cup 
white, full-sized flower ; this is the Narcissus 
known in commerce as Paper White, and 
much used for early forcing. 
Per 100, 12s. 6d. ; per doz., 2s. ; each, 3d. 
•PANizziANUS.i* perianth and cup white. 
Polyanthus, + perianth and cup white; this plant 
has been naturalized on the Islands of Scilly 
for generations, it is supposed. 
Autumn-flowering— 
ViRiDis.f flowers green ; reintroduced into culti- 
vation by Mr. George Maw, winter 1883. 
Serotinus, f perianth white, cup yellow, small 
flower. 
ELEGANS,f perianth white, cup yellow. 
*Obsoletus,+ perianth white, cup yellow. 
VII. AURELIA. 
Broussonetii, flowers white ; figured by Burbidge, 
plate 47. 
II. SERIES - MONSTROSITIES. 
Daffodils with Double Flowers. 
In dealing with this part of our list, every available source of information has been taken advantage of in 
order [to afford the fullest possible particulars respecting the several plants, and quotations have been freely 
made, '^especially from the faithful Parkinson and in his quaint language. 
I. MAGNICORONATI. 
The Double Flowered Trumpet Daffodils— 
Pseudo -Narcissus plenus (the English double 
Daffodil, or Gerard’s double Daffodil). “ Is 
assuredly first naturall of our ownc countrey, 
N. Pseudo-Narcissus fl. pl. 
Half the natural size. 
for Mr. Gerard first discovered it to the world, 
finding it in a poore woman's garden in the 
West parts of England, where it grew before 
the woman came to dwell there, and, as I 
have heard since, is naturall of the Isle of 
Wight .... Sometimes the flower showeth 
a close and round yellow trunke in the middle, 
separate from the pale outer wings, which 
trunke is very double, showing some pale leaves 
within it, dispersed among the yellow. And 
sometimes the trunke is more open, or in part 
broken, showing forth the same colours inter- 
mixed within it ; the flower passing away with- 
out giving any seed.” — Parkinson, p. 104. 
Per doz., 10s. 6d. ; each, is. 
.Telamonius plenus (Wilmer’s great double 
Daffodil); “the stalk riseth to bee two foote 
high, growing (in a fruitfull and fat soyle) 
strong, and somewhat round, bearing at the 
toppe, out of a thin skinne, one great and 
fair double flower . . . diversly intermixed 
with a rowe of paler, and a rowe of deeper 
yellow leaves, wholly dispersed throughout the 
flower, the pale colour as well as the deeper 
yellow . . . Sometimes the leaves hereof 
are scattered, and spread wholly, making it 
shew a faire, broad open flower ; and sometimes 
the outer leaves stand separate from the middle 
Double Daffodils — continued. 
trunke, which is whole and unbroken, and very 
thicke of leaves ; and sometimes the middle 
trunke will be halfe broken . . . as it is 
likewise scene in the small English kinde . . . 
this beareth no seed.” — Parkinson, p. 102. 
This Daffodil is common at Florence, from 
whence it may be supposed it was introduced 
into this country about the year 1620. The 
single form is to be found growing with it, but 
not abundantly. I11 England the small double 
native plant is scarce ; whereas at Florence the 
large single native plant is scarce, and variable. 
Attention is particularly called to this variable 
character to account for differences in the 
double forms of this Daffodil ; for example, 
there was this year exhibited at South Kensing- 
ton, besides the long-trumpet double Tela- 
monius in all its gradations, one with the 
trumpet shorter, thicker and lighter in colour, 
while the foliage was of a darker green. (Was 
it Haworth’s Tclamotiius pleno pallidus acumi - 
natus f) 
Largest roots per 100, ros. 6d. ; per doz., is. 6d. 
Smaller roots per 100, 5s. 6d. ; per doz., is. 
Plenissimus (John Tradescant’s great Rose Daffo- 
dil). “ This Prince of Daffodils bclongeth pri- 
marily to John Tradescant, as the first founder 
thereof, that we know, and may well bee entitled 
the Glory of Daffodils.” The stalk, almost as 
high as Wilmer's great Double Daffodil, “bearing 
at the toppe one faire large great flower (before it 
breake open, being shorter and thicker in the 
middle, and ending in a longer and sharper 
point than any of the other Daffodils) very much 
spread open .... and double as any Provence 
Rose.” — Parkinson , p. 102. This Daffodil is 
not much known, the one usually sold for it, 
viz., lobularis grandiplenns, is dwarfer. 
* Plenus laciniis pallidis (the great Double 
Yellow Spanish Daffodil), the stalk almost as 
high as Wilmer's great double Daffodil, “bear- 
ing one double flower at the toppe, always 
spread open . . . the outermost leaves whereof 
being of a greenish colour at first, and after- 
wards more yellow, doe a little turn themselves 
back to the stalk. . . . Those leaves that stand 
in the middle are smaller, and some of them 
show as if they were hollow trunked I 
thinke none ever had this kind before myselfe, 
nor did I myself ever see it before the year 1618, 
for it is of mine own raising, and flowering first 
in iny own garden.” — Parkinson, p. 103. 
