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■264 *Albus maxlmus, splendid large truss, ex. 1 6 
265 *Albus superbissimus, large full truss, ex. 1 o 
266 *Baroness Van Tuyll, long handsome truss, ex. 1 o 
267 *Blancliard, fine compact truss o 8 
268 fBouquet Royal, long compact truss, ex... 1 6 
269 *Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 
large compact handsome truss, ex 1 o 
270 ■fDon Gratuit, large bells, good truss o 9 
271 +Flevo, lily white, ex 1 0 
272 *Fontalne, large beautiful truss , ex 1 6 
273 *Grand Valnqueur, fine compact truss o 8 
274 * ,, Vedette, large bells and truss, ex. o 9 
275 't'Grootvorstin, large compact truss 2 o 
276 *La Candeur, fine close truss o 8 
277 +La Deesse, moderate bells, fine truss o 9 
278 *Lady Havelock, fine truss, ex 1 o 
279 *La Franchise, very fine large handsome 
truss (new), ex 1 <5 
280 fLa Tour d’ Auvergne, large bells, large 
handsome truss , ex o 9 
WHITE. 
281 *La Vestale, lily white, splendid large 
handsome truss, ex 1 
282 *L* Innocence, large bells, large splendid 
truss (new), ex 8 
283 *Madame Van der Hoop, large bells, large 
compact truss, ex j 
284 *Mirandolina, large fine truss, ex o 
285 *Mont Blanc, large bells, compact large 
handsome truss, ex j 
286 ^Oviedo, compact large and handsome, ex 1 
287 *Palx de l’Europe, large truss, ex 1 
288 +Prlnce of Waterloo, neat bells, neat com- 
pact hatidsome truss, ex 1 
289 *Princess Frederick W illiam , large fine 
truss, ex x 
290 + Pyrene, large fine truss o 
291 *Queen Victoria, handsome truss, ex o 
292 *Queen of the Netherlands, large bells, 
very fine truss, ex 1 
293 ^Snowball, fine truss, bells beautifully sym- 
metrical, atid of great substance, ex 4 
WHITE SHADED ROSE, Etc. 
294 fAnna Maria, blush, neat bells, with violet 
centre, good truss 
295 *Anna Paulowna, white shaded rose, com- 
pact large truss, ex 
296 *Cleopatra, waxy white, large bells, thick 
fine truss, ex 
297 *DolIy Varden, white shaded rose, large 
bells, thick truss, ex 
298 *Elfrida, waxy white, large bells, bold hand- 
sotne truss, ex 
299 ^Grandeur & Merveille, white shaded rose, 
immense compact truss, ex 
300 fLa Virginity, white shaded, very large 
bells, good truss 
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301 *Lord Granville, white shaded rose, Urge 
bells, handsome truss, ex 
302 *Monarque, white shaded rose, fine 
303 *Orondates, white tinged rose, large hand- 
some truss, ex 
304 f Princess Alice, white shaded rose, coin- 
pact truss, ex 
305 *Seraphine, white shaded rose, large bells, 
very large truss, ex 
306 f Triumph Blandina, white, beautifully 
tinged rose, pink centre, fine truss, ex. ... 
307 *Tausen, white, shaded rose, very large 
handsome truss, ex 
308 * Voltaire, white shaded rose, large bells, 
fine truss 
YELLOW, ORANGE, CITRON, PRIMROSE, Etc. 
309 *Alida Jacobsea, rich canary-yellow o 9 
310 " Anna Carolina, beautiful primrose, fine 
compact truss, ex 1 o 
311 ' Bird of Paradise, beautiful rich prim- 
rose, fine truss, ex 7 6 
312 ^Canary, canary-yellow, fine truss 1 6 
313 *Duc de MalakofF, strain colour, striped 
rose-lake, novel colour, large truss, ex. ... 2 o 
314 - Grand Due de Luxembourg, rich yellow, 
large fine truss 
315 ^Heroine, primrose, large truss, ex 
316 *Ida, rich primrose, large truss, ex 
317 *King of Holland, apricot colour, very dis- 
tinct, compact neat truss, ex 
318 *La Citronnicre, citron-yellow, very fine ... 
319 ’L’Or d’AustraHe, fine yellow, large truss, ex. 
320 *Overwinnaar , fine yellow, nice truss 
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NARCISSUS, OR DAFFODIL. 
The Narcissus is amongst the oldest and most beautiful of Spring flowering bulbous plants. It has for 
centuries been one of the highly prized Garden favourites, and has commanded in an unusual degree the 
attention of the scientific botanist. During those epochs when artificial gardening has been in the ascendant 
the Narcissus, like many another charming flower, has had to yield to the inexorable goddess of Fashion. At 
such times it has been saved from extinction by the fostering care of our Botanic Gardens, and of those enthusiastic 
amateurs who love flowers not for what they cost, but for their intrinsic beauty, and who, while they do not 
■ignore new introductions, discard not their old friends, unless the new is an improvement upon the old. The 
Narcissus, however, like many other neglected flowers, is now reasserting its position, and claiming its proper 
place in the general economy of floral decoration. 
For well nigh three months, this season, at each of the fornightly meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
we exhibited collections of flowers of the various Narcissi as they came into bloom. Could our readers have seen 
these, we have no doubt they would have joined in the general exclamations of praise so freely bestowed upon 
them, and the expressions of surprise that there should be a garden without the Narcissus. 
They may be classed among the first and the last of our Spring flowers— commencing with the Trumpet 
varieties in February and terminating with the Double Poeticus in June. 
The nomenclature of the Narcissus, curious to say, appears to have been always in a state of chronic con- 
fusion, for we find Parkinson, two centuries and a half ago, complaining that no two catalogues were agreed as to 
names, adding— ■' there hath been great confusion among many of our modern writers in not distinguishing the 
manifold varieties of Daffodils,'' and with the view of setting the matter right, in his Paradisi, published A.D. 
1629, he devotes forty pages to woodcuts and letterpress, illustrating and describing the various Narcissi. At 
that time he had in his garden almost every variety which we at present possess, with other beautiful kinds now 
'evidently lost to cultivation. 
Herbert, two centuries later, in his Amaiyllidcicca:, enters very fully into the nomenclature of the Narcissus, 
making free use of his contemporaries, Salisbury, Haworth, and Ellacombe, who were all deeply versed in the 
different forms and varieties of the Narcissus ; and from authors such as Parkinson, Miller, Linnaeus, Sweet, 
Clusius, etc., and from the various Herbariums, he drew largely in dealing with this fine family of bulbous plants. 
In 1869, J. G. Baker, Esq., of the Royal Herbarium, at Kew, modified the classifications of the various 
writers on the Narcissus, and his classification, as cultivators, we have found most useful in our arrangement. 
