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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
I find that it refuses to bloom well if allowed 
to become dry, notwithstanding all of which 
the summer ripening process seems very essen¬ 
tial, as before suggested. Even if the bulbs 
have to be purchased every season, it is a plant 
one would not care to be without, but in sandy 
soils near the sea it succeeds well in a warm 
corner, near masonry or brickwork. 
The white variety, N. monopliylla, from 
Algiers, does best in a cold frame, with a west¬ 
ern exposure. The old craze about a south 
aspect is going out of fashion. Gardeners are 
beginning to find the western far preferable. 
Tea Eoses on a southern aspect here are killed 
to the ground ; those exposed on a western one 
are fresh and healthy. The “ why” of it does 
not appear far to seek. On the southern walls, 
the hot sun, coming close on the heels of the 
frost, bursts up the frozen tissues of the plants, 
and so they become blackened, lifeless wrecks. 
Those on the west, to which the sun approaches 
more gradually, escape. To return to the 
White Daffodil, it may be raised from seeds, 
but bulbs planted in sandy loam flower much 
sooner, of course. 
My particular object, however, in now 
writing, is to draw attention to the Large 
Sulphur Hoop-Petticoat Daffodil, which was 
introduced from Biarritz a few years ago by 
J. D. Llewelyn, Esq., a well-known and 
worthy lover of fair flowers. I have seen it 
several years in Mr. Barr s collection, and last 
autumn obtained one bulb as a particular 
favour; and it has just now r bloomed, bearing a 
bold, pure sulphur-tinted blossom, the size of 
my sketch ; and two other scapes, on one of 
which are two flowers—a breach of etiquette I 
never remember to have seen before in these 
Daffodils, although Triteleia uniflora now and 
then plays the same trick. I believe this 
variety to be more robust, earlier, and so hardier 
than any other form; and if this should prove 
true, it deserves to become popular; and 
visitors to Biarritz would do well to look out 
for its thong-like green leaves, even if they are 
too late for its sulphur blossoms. 
The forcing of the common yellow variety 
is very simple. Bulbs obtained in October or 
November should be at once potted, five to¬ 
gether, in a 48-sized pot, using a compost of 
loam, leaf-mould, and sand. Give a good 
watering, and then place the pots under a wall 
or hedge, and cover with three or four inches 
of sifted coal-ashes. Here they may remain 
until January, when they will have rooted. 
Then bring them into a sunny greenhouse or 
frame, placing them near the glass, and give 
plenty of water so soon as top-growth com¬ 
mences. When the leaves are from nine 
inches to a foot long, the bloom-scapes appear. 
A cool, airy place in the full sunshine i3 de¬ 
sirable, as if placed far from the glass, or in 
heat, the leaves become drawn. All the 
Daffodils force well treated in this manner, 
but N. Bulbocodium is so distinct from all 
others, and so quaint and bright withal, that 
it is quite a treat to anticipate its out-door 
beauty by forcing a few bulbs in pots in the 
manner here described.—F. W. Burbidge. 
[Mr. Baker has been good enough to examine 
the specimens of this hitherto undescribed 
Narcissus, and to communicate the following 
descriptive character:— 
Narcissus Bulbocodium, var. citrinus. 
Bulb ovoid, 4-in. to f in. diameter. Leaves 
3 in. to 4 in., sub-erect, - in. to Ain. diameter, as 
long as, or rather longer than the scape. Scape 
1-flowered, terete, 4 in. to G in. long. Spathe lan¬ 
ceolate membranous, 15 to 18 lines long, cylin¬ 
drical and united up to the ovary, slit open above 
it. Pedicel Ai n . to fin. long. Ovary oblong, 
trigonous, f in. long at the time of flowering. 
Flower measuring in the cultivated plant 2 in. 
or more, from top of the ovary to the tip of the 
corona, a uniform pale lemon-yellow; tube 
funnel-shaped a little longer than the corona, 
in. diameter at the throat, striped green out¬ 
side in the lower two-tliirds ; segments lanceo¬ 
late, pale lemon-yellow, fin. long, ascending, 
finally reflexing; corona 1 in. long, not at all 
lobed, only obscurely crenulate at the throat, 
widening gradually, from half an inch in 
diameter at the base to an inch at the throat; 
stigma reaching to the throat of the corona ; 
stamens unequal, decimate, reaching about 
half-way up the corona. 
Damp, heathy hollows of the French Landes 
about Dax, Biarritz, and Bayonne. Intro¬ 
duced into English gardens, several years ago, 
by J. D. Llewelyn, Esq. Flowers with us 
early in April.—J. G. B.] 
PEACHES ON OPEN WALLS. 
Gj'pN no department of Gardening are the 
^ m effects of cheap glass more apparent than 
in the extent to which Peach cultivation 
in glazed structures has been carried during 
recent years. Even in what may be called 
