many years, ancl was glad to renew his acquaint- 
ance with an old friend. He thus speaks of it, in 
the former quoted paper: ‘I have not seen this 
plant in a single state, but possess a beautiful 
double-flowering variety of it, from my friend the 
Hev. W. T. Bree, of Allesley ; which is both well 
figured and well described in Parkinson's famous 
‘Paradisus Terrestris,’ t. 107, 6, 4 ; and, until the 
present season, was one of the missing or lost 
hardy bulbous beauties of that faithful writer, and 
of the parterres of our forefathers two hundred 
years ago.’ Parkinson's quaint description of the 
flower is very characteristic ; but his figure, though 
intelligible enough, hardly represents the flower 
sufficiently regular or star-like. I was always at a 
loss (like yourself,)” says Mr. Bree, “to know what 
family of the Narcissi to refer this plant to, never 
having seen it in a single state. The double 
variety has been familiar to me from my earliest 
boyhood, having been originally given to my father 
by Mr. Saville, of Lichfield, a great lover and cul- 
tivator of flowers, and who contrived to pick up, 
from all parts of the country, whatever was most 
worthy of cultivation.” 
Parkinson describes it as “consisting of six rows 
of leaves, every row growing smaller than the other 
unto the middle ; and so set and placed, that every 
leaf of the flower doth stand directly almost in all, 
one upon or before another unto the middle, where 
the leaves are smallest, the outermost being the 
greatest, which maketli the flower seem the more 
beautiful.” 
This Narcissus requires no peculiar treatment. 
