
Upper row, from left to right: 
TREVITHIAN, FIRETAIL, MRS. KRELAGE, 
LAURENS KOSTER, MARY LONGSTREET 
Bottom row: WARWICK, BREAD AND CHEESE. 
COVERACK PRIDE. TAMINO 
VARIETIES NOTES 
While we have endeavored in various other manners to 
give information designed to make it easier to select the 
varieties of Daffodils that would meet with your approval and 
exemplify the characteristics most desirable from your stand- 
point, perhaps our personal imvressions aside from the regu- 
lar descriptions may be of interest. It will be impossible to 
touch upon more than a small percentage of the varieties 
here but these notes may give a few points not to be gained 
by reading the remainder of the catalogue. 
The 1947 blooming season was not altogether favorable 
for many varieties, but we had many splendid flowers never- 
theless. The dry cool weather of late winter and early spring 
held back the flowering period, and March came on with 
warmer sunshiny days bringing things into bloom very rap- 
idly, many varieties having neither their normal height nor 
color when they opened. Midseason varieties in many cases 
opened almost with the earlier sorts but the extremely early 
kinds in most cases maintained their relatively earlier open- 
ing dates. Two notable variations from normal performance 
were particularly noted. Many flowers, particularly the yel- 
low trumpets, which normally come with flat perianths had 
the segments slightly campanulate or cupped over the trum- 
pet. And quite a number of the highly colored flowers were 
lacking in their usual brilliancy this past season. 
Now for a few notes on the various classes. As usual, 
GOLDBEATER, MAGNIFICENCE, and FORERUNNER led 
the parade for earliness. Not much behind was the giant 
DIOTIMA. KING ALFRED, ALASNAM, WARWICK, and 
AEROLITE make a fine quartet of early flowers for cutting 
and garden decoration. All are moderate in price. Not quite 
so well known are K’'NG OF THE NORTH, GOLDEN FLAG, 
and the huge BEN HUR, but none of them are expensive. 
Flowers of good quality but higher in price include CAMBER- 
WELL KING, KANDAHAR, ELG'™N, PRINCIPAL and the very 
new things such as KINGSCOURT. 
In the white trumpets we do not have many low priced 
varieties but BEERSHEBA is still so fine that it might merit 
ranking with the new expensive novelties. ROXANE is a 
marvelous giant flower but the bulbs frequently have the 
exasperating habit of splitting up into small pieces and a 
percentage of the flowers may come with narrower petals 
than they should. MRS. KRELAGE is still very desirable for 
either the garden or for cutting. For large showy spectacular 
flowers, ADA FINCH, MORAY, and PEARL HARBOR 
should fill the bill unless one wanted to spend more and ob- 
tain the extremely impressive flowers of KANCHENJUNGA 
and BROUGHSHANE. Exquisite modeling and texture may 
be found in CANTATRICE, CHINA CLAY, and CORINTH. 
While the bi-cclor trumpets contain some of the finest of 
all Daffodils, most of them are not distinctly contrasty in 
color, and the best are new and expensive. LOVENEST is a 
good flower with the added attraction of having some pink 
in its coloring. It will be a difficult matter to improve on the 
beauty of SINCERITY although for show purposes we would 
wish it a little large and taller. 
KENNY are two of the most strikingly contrasted flowers. 
TROSTAN ranks as one of the finest garden flowers while 
CONTENT and TROUSSEAU are sensationally beautiful ex- 
hibition sorts. A few of the best pinks are found here, notably 
PINK o’DAWN which is large, of fine form and color; and 
SHOT TOWER, a very large flaring trumpet flushed pink. 
With the host of good 2a varieties, we can mention but a 
few. FORTUNE is perhaps the most popular of the lot and 
justly so. Other very good moderately priced ones include 
DAMSON, KILLIGREW, PORTHILLY, and WHiTELEY GEM 
with colored cups, and CARLTON and LUCINIUS in the all 
yellow flowers. 
In the medium price group CAMPFIRE, CARBINEER, 
CROCUS, DIOLITE, FORTUNE’S CREST, HUGH POATE. 
KLINGO, MALVERN GOLD, ROUGE, RUSTOM PASHA, and 
TRENOON are a few that we especially like. Of the newer 
ones, some that look very good to us are ALEMBHIN, BINKIE, 
DUNKELD, GALWAY, GARLAND, GIBRALTAR, NARVIK, 
ROYAL RANSOM and TAMINO; while KRAKATOA is quite 
the most showy and striking of the red and yellow flowers 
that we have seen. 
In the 2b group are a number of very splendid and beauti- 
ful flowers. BODILLY, DICK WELLBAND, HADES, and 
JOHN EVELYN should be in every fancier’s garden. ADLER. 
BREAD AND. CHEESE, COVERACK PERFECTION, FLA- 
MENCO, POLINDRA and RUBRA would be much missed if 
absent from our garden, and of course such varieties as DUN- 
MORE, KILWORTH. NAIROBI, PENVOSE, RED HACKLE, 
and TUSKAR LIGHT among others are top flight Daffodils. 
There are comparatively few varieties to consider in the 
Barrii 3a group, of which ALCIDA and D}!ANA KASNER are 
standard dependable older sorts. CLACKMAR, MARKET 
MERRY, and CHUNGKING are among the most strikingly 
colored, but are not plentiful as yet. 
Among the 3b varieties are a considerable number of very 
high quality flowers of rather similar coloring, and because of 
the brief description given, one might be led to believe they 
looked alike. FIRETAIL and KILTER should be satisfactory to 
a beginning collector, while LADY KESTEVEN, MR. JINKS. 
PORTLIGHT, and THERAPIA would appeal to those not 
wanting the most expensive sorts. We particularly like 
BRAVURA, CRETE, LIMERICK, BLARNEY, ORTONA. 
OTRANTO, and PAPRIKA of the latter aa: all being bril- 
liant stars. 
In considering the leedsiis we deal with some of our fa- 
vorites, and certainly many of the most lovely of all Daffodils 
are included here. Such varieties as CICELY; HERA, MAR- 
MORA, SILVER STAR, and TUNIS are beautiful, dependable, 
and low in price. The striking and beautiful DATSY SCHAF- 
FER is now in about the same price class. In the medium 
price range we have such outstanding beauties as BRUNS- 
WICK, EVENING, GLENARM, SLEMISH. and TRUTH; while 
of the more rare ones GLENDALOUGH, KiLLALOE, LUD- 
LOW, and ZERO are among the finest and most beautiful pure 
whites. In this group we find most of the pinks, MRS. BACK- 
HOUSE being the best known. LISBREEN, ROSE OF TRA- 
LEE, and WILD ROSE are especially desirable with MABEL 
TAYLOR the most striking and unusual of the lot. 
If there is any group that we love above all others, it would 
be the small crowned leedsiis, class 4b. Nearly all of those 
we list are comparatively new and scarce but ALBERNI 
BEAUTY, ANGELINE, MYSTIC and SAMARIA are exquisite 
things not so high in price. 
WHITE, CUSHENDALL, FRIGID, GLENSHANE, SYLVIA 
O’NEIXLL and others must be seen to be appreciated. We have 
listed but a few, Oe being fully equal in beauty to some 
listed here. 
The remaining groups do not contain many representatives 
in our listing but we would call attention to SILVER CHiMES 
and THALIA among the triandrus; FEBRUARY GOLD, 
MARCH SUNSHINE, and MITE among the cyclamineus: and 
CHERIE, GOLDEN PERFECTION, TREVITHIAN, and TRiM 
among the jonquil hybrids. 
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EFFECTIVE and RATH- 
Such varieties as CH NESE. 
