
TUNIS 
When Daffodils begin to peer, 
With, heigh! the doxy over the dale, 
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year: 
For the red blood reigus in the winter’s pale. 
—Shakespeare 

MRS. R. O. BACKHOUSE 
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pets are gone. It is an origination of Guy Wilson of Ire- 
land which we had the pleasure of introducing. The giant 
of the family and a truly imposing regal flower, Brough- 
shane, is quite stunning with its huge flowers on tall stems. 
Its parent, Kanchenjunga, seldom fails to elicit comment 
from visitors who are amazed at its massive heavily frilled 
trumpet. Those coming early in the season are not long 
in spotting Ada Pinch, and Roxane comes in for a fair share 
of admiration. 
As for bi-color trumpets, we have surely not been svur- 
feited with these. Several have not proven good growers 
and of necessity are omitted from our list. Others have 
sold so well as to leave us with insufficient stock to list. 
While none of those that are being offered here are brilliant 
contrasts of color, they are flowers of good quality. There 
is still nothing that we have seen to surpass in general 
smoothness and quality the rather short stemmed Sincerity. 
It must be open some days before attaining its size and 
beauty. The newer Content is a Daffodil of superlative qual- 
ity and is large and tall, although not a distinctive bi-color 
as to contrast. While of entirely different form, much the 
same might be said of Trostan. The newer Trousseau ap- 
pears to be a grand flower of fine finish. Burwood, Mrre. 
van Waveren, Carmel, and Lovenest are all worth having 
in one’s garden. 
It seems a hopeless task to endeavor to evaluate the yel- 
low and the yellow and red incomparabilis and to give 
an adequate picture of the individual varieties. There is 
much variation in color, size, form, texture, and quality but 
mere descriptions are inadequate and after reading a num- 
ber of them, they must sound trite to the reader. Words 
will fail to differentiate between varieties unless long de- 
tailed descriptions are given and then they are not adequate 
to the task of making each flower distinctive. Even view- 
ing the flowers often conveys the impression that many va- 
rieties are identical or nearly so; and it is only in growing 
them in one’s own garden that some gain individuality. Only 
a partial list of the varieties catalogued will be considered 
rere. Of the red cups, doubtless Fortune is the best known 
and mcst sought after by fanciers. It is truly magnificent 
and it must have been a joyful moment for the originator 
when he first looked on this flower. Its seedling, Bokhara, 
is a fine flower of moderate price and an easy dependable 
grower. Others of low cost that are well worth having are 
Killigrew, Damson, and Red Shadow. In the somewhat 
higher priced brackets, there are few varieties to equal 
Diolite for sheer beauty while Campfire, Rustom Pasha, 
Carbineer, and Porthilly have brilliant coloring and are fine 
for garden display. Fortune’s Bowl is a huge flower that 
shows well in the garden, and although Hugh Poate does 
not have ag brilliant coloring in the crown, for size, form, 
smoothness and perfection of form it surpasses. The color- 
ing of the crown varies: from year to year according to 
moisture and temperature. Scariet Leader strikes the eye 
of visitors perhaps as much as anything we grow. Some 
of the newest things have not yet had the opportunity to 
prove themselves in our garden, but Bahram, Gibraltar, 
Klingo, and Rouge have given some fine blooms. Klingo, 
especially, has impressed us so favorably that we are pur- 
chasing the orignator’s stock of this, 
Then there are the all yellow incomparabilis. While not 
quite as smooth in finish as some of the new ones, there 
is something about the general quality, size, and all around 
dependability, together with the beautiful shade of yellow 
found in Carlton, that makes every one want to grow it in 
quantity. Malvern Gold would be good any time of the 
season, but coming as it does so extremely early, it is doubly 
valuable. I wish we had an acre of it alone. Glenburn 
is a good one of exceptionally heavy substance. Among other 
outstanding things in this section I should mention Crocus, 
Trenoon, Havelock, Soult, St. Issey, Galway, and Temecula. 
In the 2b class we have some of our most striking and 
beautiful flowers. While common now, John Evelyn will 
long remain a favorite and we never seem to have enough 
bulbs of it. Dick Wellband is so striking in color that one 
may overlook the somewhat imperfect form. Any Daffodil 
lover would certainly not want to be without Adler and 
Bodilly, two wonderful beautiful flowers. Then there are 
Coverack Perfection, Polindra, Jean Hood, Melva Fell, Rubra, 
and many others of outstanding quality and beauty. 
