April 7, 1888. 
THE HARDENING WORLD. 
505 
DAFFODILS FROM IRELAND. 
What a favourable climate Ireland must have com¬ 
pared with ours on this side of the Channel, judging 
by a box of Daffodils received from Mr. William 
Baylor Hartland, 24, Patrick Street, Cork. They are 
large, brilliant, and fresh, as if they had come from a 
paradise of flowers, where neither frost, rain, wind, nor 
snow could get at them, and are represented by numerous 
varieties ; whereas very few have yet flowered in the 
neighbourhood of London, and these are early ones, 
such as the Tenby Daffodil (Narcissus obvallaris), N. 
minimus, and N. pallidus prsecox.' 
Undoubtedly the most brilliantly-coloured of those 
sent us by Mr. Hartland is that named Trumpet 
maximus, of a deep golden yellow, especially the 
wide-mouthed trumpet, Golden Spur is a larger 
flower, with broader clear yellow segments, entirely 
evidently a form of the variety N. m. tortuosus, with 
ascending twisted segments, and a wide-mouthed 
trumpet. The whole flower is of a pale sulphur-white, 
perceptibly of a deeper tint of yellow at the mouth 
with a greenish yellow tube. Another variety belong¬ 
ing to this group and named Bishop Mann, differs 
chiefly in the more spreading and flat, not twisted 
segments, and is likewise an attractive Daffodil of a 
pleasing soft shade of colour. Accompanying the above 
was a bouquet of the old-fashioned Queen Anne’s 
Daffodil, known as Capax or Eystettensis. The 
peculiarity of this variety is that the numerous 
segments of the perfectly double flower are piled in 
regular order one above the other in six rows, the 
segments being superposed. The flower is much 
smaller than a number of the double garden Daffodils, 
and would therefore recommend itself to those who 
leaves ; but when growing vigorously, they are much 
more numerous. The plant is considered a variety of 
K. prostrata, and, certainly, wild specimens show a 
great range of variation, from the wiry-stemmed and 
small-leaved forms that trail over the sandy soil to 
those that approach the vigour of the grand form under 
notice. It is figured in the Botanical Register, 21, t. 
1790. The greatest profusion of flowers are produced 
when the lateral shoots are allowed to hang down 
loosely. If these should become exhausted, the best 
plan is to cut them back to the main stems trained 
under the rafters of the house, when fresh shoots will 
develop and come into flower again in a comparatively 
short time. It may be propagated by cuttings, or by 
seeds which it produces pretty freely. Seedlings flower 
comparatively early, as in the case of some other 
species. 
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Kennedya prostrata Marryatt® : Flowers Scarlet. 
devoid of the green mid-rib seen in the variety maximus, 
and a large golden yellow corona. According to 
relative size, that named Henry Irving would come in 
this group, and is characterised by paler colours, and 
shorter segments and trumpet, while it is, at the same 
time, proportionately much broader. The segments 
spread out horizontally, and being regularly imbricated, 
give the flower a fine appearance. Scarcely smaller is 
Ard-Righ, whose prominent and distinguishing cha¬ 
racter seems to be the deeply six-lobed trumpet, with 
the lobes again cut or crenate at the margins, and all 
of a deep golden yellow. It is a fine Daffodil, and 
certainly ranks amongst the best of its class—that is, 
the yellow Daffodils as opposed to the bicolors, whites, 
and sulphur-whites. Golden Plover is something in 
the way of N. Pseudo-Narcissus lobularis, with ascend¬ 
ing narrow segments and a six-lobed deep yellow 
trumpet, but, on the whole, rather smaller than any of 
those yet mentioned. 
The sulphur-white Daffodils originating from N. 
moschatus constitute, from a garden point of view, quite 
a distinct class by themselves, both in colour and in 
the nodding or drooping habit of the flowers. Leda is 
object to the large double kinds. The bouquet also 
contained a quantity of the common Grape Hyacinth 
with deep blue flowers. On the whole it gives us 
great pleasure to see these charming hardy flowers 
grown to such perfection in the open air at this early 
period. 
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KENNEDYA PROSTRATA 
MARRY ATT.®. 
Like many other fine climbers, Mrs. Marryatt’s 
Kennedya has probably suffered neglect and has been 
lost to cultivation several times since 1834, and re¬ 
introduced from time to time as occasion offered. The 
wonder is, that it is not a common occupant of every 
greenhouse or conservatory where beautiful climbers 
are desired, as in a temperature suitable for maintaining 
flowering plants in bloom during winter it flowers 
almost or quite continuously throughout the year. 
Where grown under suitable conditions it is still a mass 
of bloom after having been so all the winter. The 
flowers are of large size and of an attractive light 
scarlet, produced four on a stalk in the axils of the 
THE STRUCTURE OF BULBS. 
LILIUM auratum and Vallota purpurea. 
The outward appearance of a bulb of Lilium auratum 
would lead to the belief that the very much shortened 
stem occupying the basal portion of the bulb would be 
perpendicular or erect, as the flowering-stem is ; but 
by carefully removing the fleshy and scaly leaves, it 
will be found that the permanent axis is horizontal. 
A very good idea of its real structure and direction may 
be obtained by comparing the permanent axis of a Lily 
to that of Solomon’s Seal, which creeps along hori¬ 
zontally at the same average depth beneath the soil, 
terminating in a bud which rises perpendicularly out of 
the soil, and ends in a leafy and flowering axis. 
This leafy axis dies down annually to its origin, 
leaving a scar or cicatrix, as if it had been a leaf that 
became dis-articulated from the stem. This is exactly 
the behaviour of Lilium auratum, and the rhizomatous 
Lilies only differ in degree by the greater elongation of 
the internodes between the individual scaly leaves. 
An average-sized bulb, if carefully pulled to pieces, 
will exhibit two or three old scars on the upper side of 
