CHOICE NAMED HYACINTHS, AND DAFFODIL OR NARCISSUS. 
each — /. d. 
412 *Nectar, neat bells^ fine truss, ex i 6 
413 *Palx de I’Europe, targe truss, ex i o 
414 ^Pavilion Blanc, large truss, ex o 9 
416 ot WdiXerloo, compact truss, ex. ... 1 o 
416 *Prlnce8s Frederick William, targe fine 
truss, ex i o 
421 *t*Anna Maria, blush, neat bells with violet 
centre, good truss o 8 
422 *Anna Paulowna, white, shaded rose, com- 
pact large truss, ex o 8 
423 *Cleopatra, waxy white, large bells, thick 
fine truss, ex o 8 
424 *Dolly Varden, white, shaded rose, large 
bells, thick truss, ex i o 
426 ^Elfrida, waxy white, large bells, bold hand- 
some truss, ex 0 8 
426 ^Grandeur k MerveiUe, white, shaded rose, 
immense compact truss, ex o 8 
WHITE SHADED ROSE, Etc. 
417 ‘Queen Victoria, handsome truss, ex 
418 ‘Queen of the Netherlands, large bells, 
very fine truss, ex 
419 ‘Snowball, truss, bells beautifully sym- 
metrical, and of great substance, ex 
420 fVan Hooboken, very large, cx 
434 ‘Allda Jacobssa, rich canary-yellow o 
436 ‘Anna Carolina, beautiful primrose o 
436 ‘Bird of Paradise, beautiful rich prim- 
rose, fine truss, tx 3 
437 ‘Due de Molakoff, straw colour, striped 
rose-lake, novel colour, large truss, ex. ... i 
438 ‘Grand Due de Luxembourg, rich yellow, 
large fine truss i 
439 ‘Heroine, primrose, large truss, ex o 
YELLOW, ORANGE, CITRON, PRIMROSE, Etc. 
427 +La Virglnltd, white, shaded, very large 
bells, good truss 
428 *Lox6.Gx&y, white, tinged rose, fine truss, qx. 
429 ‘Mammoth, white, tinged rose, very large 
bells, large truss 
430 ‘Orondates, white, tinged rose, large hand- 
some truss, ex 
431 ‘Seraphlne, white, shaded rose, large bells, 
very large truss, ex 
432 +Trlumph Blandlna, white, beautifully 
tinged rose, pink centre, fine truss, ex. ... 
433 ‘Voltaire, white, shaded rose, large bells... 
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O 8 
2 3 
I 6 
440 ‘Ida, rich primrose, large truss, ex 
441 tJaune Supreme, rich yellow, good truss... 
442 primrose, fine truss, ex. 
443 ‘King of Holland, apricot colour, very dis- 
tinct, compact neat truss, ex 
444 ‘La Cltronnl^re, citron-yellow, very fine ... 
445 *L’Or ^ ^^^\tX^\A,fineyellow, large truss, ex, 
446 ‘Sonora, straw colour, ex 
447 *WiQ%oxy, fine yellow, large truss 
For New Hyacinth Glasses, with Art-Cameo Figures, etc,, see p. 3. 
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DAFFODIL OR NARCISSUS. 
Twice the Royal Horticultural Society awarded to us,forourE.xhibit of Daffodil flowers, the Gold Banksian 
Medal, and once the large Gold-gilt Silver Floral Medal, with other Awards and Certificates. When 
Her Majesty opened the Royal Horticultural Society's Show on the 2 nd May, 1877, we received a 
Commemorative Gold Medal for our exhibit of ?nore 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 decorative for weeks. A selection made from the three 
groups will ensure a succession of flowers from February till fune. 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 are abundant at a season when flowers are 
scarce, forming a pleasing contrast, and associating admirably with hot-house flowers. This is illustrated 
annually ; during the three months in Spring we exhibit cut flowers of the various kinds of Daffodils at the 
Spring Shows, Fortnightly Meetings, &c., of the Royal Horticultural Society, when our e.xhibition of these hardy 
flowers attracts more notice from the visitors, and elicits more admiration than the expensive rarities which have 
been grown under glass. 
NEW DAFFODILS.— The Wearsdale and Longford Bridge Collections of New Daffodils have received 
considerable publicity through our exhibits of the cut flowers at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens 
during the last few years ; but more especially during last Spring, as we were then enabled to stage them with 
their names, and we are now in a position to offer for sale these charming hardy flowers. In doing so, we 
think it may not be uninteresting to give a short history of them, more especially as the family of Daffodils has 
been a favourite flower 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 culti- 
vation. 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 or Daffodils ; but at that time he was not aware of the existence of the Wearsdale 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. There are no 
absolute data extant as to how these new varieties were produced, but doubtless the keynote was furnished in 
Dean Herbert’s paper on the Hybridization of Narcissus. 
In the Longford Bridge Collection there are hybrids and varieties of exceedingbeauty ; and in the Wearsdale 
Collection, though no record exists as to the crossings, 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 Wearsdale 
Collection might fairly be termed a Practical Treatise on Hybridization, by William Backhouse, Esq., of Wears- 
dale, 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 e.xcellence in gradation of size, diversity of form, originality in shape and colouration. Indeed, the 
genius of this man has produced in the Daffodil as much as can besaid of the great masters in sculpture and painting. 
A Coloured Plate, a Group of Nine of our New Daffodils, can be had free on application by intending pur- 
chasers, desirous of knowing more (f these fine hardy flowers. For a history of these new Daffodils see *‘The Garden," 
2 ^rd 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 are charming, and for edgings the dwarf growing kinds are most beautiful. In flower and 
shrubbery borders grown in masses of diversified forms and colours, Daffodils impart variety and interest 
unequalled. For naturalization in woodland walks, semi-wild places, the margins of plantations, and planted 
in the grass, the effect of these is natural and pleasing. 
12 and 13, JCing Street, Cevent Garden, 1879.] 
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