IS 
BARR AND SON, 12, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 
Double Daffodils — continued. 
*Gallicus major flore-pleno (the great double 
French Daffodil). “The stalk riseth up not 
much higher than the smaller French kinde, but 
a little bigger, bearing at the top one great 
double flower, which, when it is fully and per- 
fectly blowne open (which is but seldome ; for 
that it is very tender, the leaves being much 
thinner, and thereby continually subject, upon 
any little distemperature of the time, to cleave 
so fast one unto another that the flower cannot 
blow open faire) is a faire and a goodly flower, 
larger by halfe than the smaller kinde, and fuller 
of leaves, of the same pale whitish yellow or 
lemon colour . . . not set in the same order of 
rows . . . but more confusedly together. " — 
Parkinson, p. 103. 
* Lobularis plenus (the common deep yellow 
double Daffodil) of Haworth. Can any one 
settle what this is? ( I la worth confuses tabular is 
and Obvallaris , he calls Lobularis the Tenby 
Daffodil, and Obvallaris the short tube-spread- 
ing crown, referring the last to the figure in the 
Dot. Mae. , t. 13S1, and as this is the plant which 
grows wild at Tenby, the name Obvallaris must 
therefore be associated with the “ Tenby Daffo- 
dilT and Lobularis stand to the fine form of 
typical Pseudo- Narcissus, and its two double 
varieties, as determined by the Daffodil Con- 
ference Committee. 
The two following are comparatively dwarf growing, 
and are supposed to be the double of the plant 
called Lobularis , ranged under Pseudo- Nar- 
cissus ; — 
N. Lobularis Grandiflenus. 
Very much reduced from natural size. 
Pseudo-narcissus lobularis plenus (the dwarf 
double light yellow). Per doz., 3s. 6d.; each, 4d. 
Grandiplenus (the dwarf double light yellow). 
This flower spreads to a large size when fully 
open, and a fine specimen will show as many as 
10 or 12 centres from which petals or organs 
radiate, thus having the appearance of 10 or 12 
small Narcissi bound together. 
Per doz., 7s. 6d. ; each, gd. 
Nanus plenus, stated by Dr. Brown, of Hull, to 
have been raised by him from seed ; he has one 
bulb only, the flower of which was sent by him 
to the Conference. One bulb was also found 
amongst bulbs of Nanus from Lincolnshire by 
Mr. T. S. Ware. So far, therefore, as is known 
at present, these are the only two bulbs of this 
Narcissus. 
CAPAX plenus (Queen Ann’s double Daffodil), also 
called eystettensis. Haworth supposed it was 
the double of Calathinus. Herbert, that it was 
the double of Minor. Parkinson places it with 
the trumpet section under the name Pseudo- 
Narcissus gallicus minor flore-pleno, but it is 
doubtful, and remarks on it as follows The 
rootes of this lesser French kinde (if I may law- 
fully call it) .... a bastard Daffodill. I some- 
what doubt thereof, in that the flower ... is 
not made after the fashion ... of the other 
bastard Daffodills, but . . . resembles the form 
of the double white Daffodill .... bearing 
one faire double flower ... of a pale lemon 
Double Daffodils — continued . 
colour, consisting of 6 rows of leaves, every row 
growing smaller than the other unto the middle, 
and so set and placed, that every leafe of the 
flower doth stand directly almost in all, one 
N. Capax fl. pl. 
Very much reduced from natural size. 
upon or before another into the middle, where 
the leaves are smallest, the outermost being 
the greatest." — Parkinson, p. 105. 
Per doz. , 15s. ; each, is. 6d. 
CERNUUS FLORE EI.EGANTISSIME PLENO (the double 
white trumpet Daffodil). 
Per doz., 25s. ; each, 2s. 6d. 
CERNUUS FLORE ELEGANTISSIME PLENO BICINCTUS 
(the double white trumpet Daffodil with the divi- 
sions of the perianth in duplicate). 
II. MEDIICORONATI. 
The Double.flowered Nonsuch or Peerless Daffodils, 
etc. 
N. Incomparabilis fl. pl. 
Very much reduced from natural size. 
Incomparaisilis aurantius plenus (Butter and 
liggs). Of this there are at least two varieties 
differing in the colour of the flower, and the 
shade of green in the foliage. One appears to 
have come from a pure full yellow, the other 
from a sulphur yellow, and for observation it is 
suggested that the yellow more generally gives 
the full rose-like flower, and the sulphur the full 
cup of florets with the divisions of the perianth 
free as in the single. It is moreover suggested 
that from this latter the occasional single 
flowers come. 
Per 100, 7s. 6d. ; per doz., is. 6d. ; each, 3d. 
Albus plenus aurantius (Eggs and Bacon, Orange 
Phcenix). Of this it lias been said there are two 
varieties, to be distinguished by the greater or 
lesser brightness of the orange "cup. 
Per doz. , as. 6d. ; each, 4d. 
Albus plenus sulpiiureus (Codlings and Cream, 
Sulphur Phoenix). The supposed single form 
of this is Incomparabilis semipartilus. 
Per doz., 5s. 6d. ; each, 6d. 
Under certain condilions of culture the three fore- 
going plants exhibit gradations of doubleness 
from the most perfect rose-like flower to a cup 
with a few florets. In this latter degenerate 
state many persons suppose the flower is making 
efforts to become double, whereas it is attempt- 
ing to go single. 
