Mervyn, which behaved so curiously two years ago, was shown in 
excellent condition. It is a very good five-shilling trumpet, useful both 
for the garden and for showing. My experience is that it is going to 
do well now it has settled down in my garden, and I hope the scare we 
all had will soon be forgotten. 
Southern Star was again to the fore. All that I wrote about it 
last year (March 19th, 1910) I can endorse now. It is a very beautiful 
flower with its brilliant red-edged cup. Armorel in the top row was 
decidedly effective, and with Weardale Perfection might be bracketed 
as being exceptionally well shown. The pointed-petalled Scarlet Eye, 
the small, taking red-cupped Robert Browning, the old, but still good 
Crown Prince, the newer Castile, and the refined and graceful Long 
Tom were others to be noticed. This last variety has a slightly droop- 
ing habit, with a rather narrow and long cup, and a white, slightly- 
hooded perianth. With the mention of the rich-coloured and massive 
yellow trumpet Mrs. II. J. Veitch and two charming bunches of 
triandrus hybrids I must close. These Snowdrop-looking, drooping 
white flowers should be raised by everyone. They are everyone’s 
favourites, and there is not much difficulty in producing them. 
Joseph Jacob. 
“THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE,” April 1st, 1911. 
Messrs. Cartwright & Goodwin, Kidderminster, staged a fine 
collection of Narcissi, pleasantly arranged with a groundwork of 
Isolepis gracilis in small pots. This exhibit contained many splendid 
flowers of the standard kinds, together with equally good blooms of 
the newest varieties and hybrids. Particularly noticeable were White 
Nectarine, Golden Sand (a fine cross between King Alfred and Glory 
of Noordwijk), Alsace (a fine Poetary hybrid), The Rising Sun, 
Mrs. H. J. Veitch, Jaune a Merveille (with many fine flowers on a stem), 
and Triandrus hybrids. Shock-headed Peter, Whirligig, and Valhalla 
also attracted much attention, chiefly on account of their uncon- 
ventional appearance (Silver-gilt Banksian Medal). 
“THE GARDENER,” March lltli, 1911. 
The firm of Messrs. Cartwright & Goodwin take a prominent place 
in my list of Daffodil men by reason of their bold and enterprising 
work as distributors of bulbs, and also for the intellectual treat they 
have given to all lovers of Daffodils, through the publication of their 
interesting work on the history and hybridisation of the Daffodil. 
They, too, have a host of seedlings of their own in the making, and 
although few have been heard of yet, the glance at the copious and 
methodical notes in Mr. Goodwin’s Seedling Stud book that I had last 
season, gave me an idea of what is in store for us.’ 
To this firm belongs the credit of putting superb varieties on the 
market, such as Mervyn, Ailsa, The Rising Sun, Evangeline, Matthew 
Arnold, and a number of other things that I cannot recount here, 
but each and all of which testify to good taste and strict care in 
selection. They are also distributing a number of the seedlings raised 
by Mr. W. F. M. Copeland, one of the most versatile of hybridists ; in 
fact it is difficult to say what combination in the hybridisation of 
Daffodils Mr. Copeland has not made. 
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