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details are given, from the time of sowing the seed till, after the 
lapse of from five to seven years, the sower is rewarded by a flower. 
In olden days men in humble spheres of life took a deep and often 
a successful interest in this cult. John Ilorsfield, a Lancashire weaver. 
It must not be forgotten, raised Horsfieldii (and this is still one of our 
best bicolors) in the ’fifties of last century with but slender resources. 
What he accomplished then can be done to-day in the smallest of 
gardens, provided, of conrse, the necessary requisites of knowledge 
and patience are among the owner’s stock in trade. 
Joseph Jacob. 
“THE GARDENER,” March 11th, 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. 
“THE JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE,” May llth, 1911. 
This year, in a little group of giant trumpets near the entrance, a 
beautiful bicolor named Ilerod, in Messrs. Cartwright & Goodwin’s 
exhibit, was one of the more remarkable of many that were shown .... 
Mr. Engleheart’s Matthew Arnold, shown by Messrs. Cartwright and 
Goodwin, seemed to me the finest of the new “ Poets.” Many of the 
recently introduced flowers in this .section have really little to 
recommend them, but Matthew Arnold has the qualities we look for in 
a good poeticus, namely, roundness and symmetry of perianth, solidity 
of petal, and a brilliantly-coloured crown. 
“THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE,” April 1st. 1911. 
Messrs. Cartwright & Goodwin, Kidderminster, put up a delightful 
exhibit of choice Daffodils, edging the display with Muscari conicum — 
Heavenly Blue. Very pretty were the flowers of \Vhite Nectarine, White 
Lady, Rising Sun, Alice Knights, Southern Star, Dorothy Pearson, 
the bold Ajax variety Master of Balliol, Evangeline, Mrs. H. J. Veitch, 
Baracolle, .Ayacanora, Circlet, and Scarlet Eye. (Silver-gilt Banksian 
Medal). 
