Of those with yellow crowns banded orange, 
TUSKAR LIGHT is very large and most spec- 
tacular, and BANTRY is among the most beau- 
tiful. The new SIGNAL LIGHT looked promising 
in its first blooming here. 
Some years ago there appeared among our seed- 
lings a very intensely frilled orange cupped 
flower of JOHN EVELYN ancestry, which did not 
prove worth carrying on, but it was pollenized by 
SCARLET LEADER, and from the resulting seed- 
lings there were two or three that were very 
early, and had large rounded white perianths with 
good sized crowns of rich orange red. The color 
does not last long, and they need more polish and 
substance, but they are unique in coming quite 
some time before anything else in their color, and 
may prove of value for breeding. From LADY 
KESTEVEN x HADES we had numbers of medi- 
ocre things that faded badly or lacked in sub- 
stance, but one selection that has been carried 
on for about eight years seems to be improving, 
and this year was one of the nicest flowers we 
had, with good rounded white perianth, and bril- 
liant crown, nicely frilled at the edge. 
Most of the named yellow trumpets were not 
outstanding this year, but we had some nice 
seedlings from KINGSCOURT x GALWAY, while 
from CAMBERWELL KING x MORTLAKE, and 
CAMBERWELL KING x GALWAY there are sev- 
eral that looked good after blooming a few years. 
But it is the KING OF THE NORTH x CONTENT 
group that gives most of interest, including clear 
yellows, pale sulphur lemons, and reversed bi- 
colors. Three of the latter were the best in this 
class that we had this year, having well formed, 
smooth flat lemon perianths, and finely balanced, 
nicely flanged trumpets which, as they developed, 
became almost white inside. The clear lemon self, 
FRONTIER, was the finest we had ever seen it, 
and MOONSTRUCK gave superb giant size blooms, 
and SPELLBINDER and MOONRISE looked good 
on their first appearance, although GRAPEFRUIT 
and MULATTO were not quite up to par for some 
reason. 
The exquisitely refined and highly polished 
CANTATRICE maintains its position as queen of 
the white trumpets. although BROUGHSHANE 
and KANCHENJUNGA always elicit more com- 
ment by virtue of their spectacular size and stun- 
ning large trumpets. A seedling from ADA FINCH 
x FORTUNE which we have grown for a num- 
ber of years is considerably larger than either 
of the above, and while lacking in form and bal- 
ace, it has many good habits including vigor. 
substance, very sturdy stems, and a good neck, 
and most visitors can’t see any other white when 
it is in bloom. FAIRY DREAM has quite irre- 
proachable form and is a most exquisite flower 
but it lacks in length of stem. After hot water 
sterilizing, COOLIN, ARDCLINIS and MORAY 
were not quite up to form. The latter is known 
rather for size than quality but is a worthwhile 
flower. 
From KANCHENJUNGA x ZERO and ZERO x 
CANTATRICE, the average quality of seedlings 
ran high, and the near uniformity was surprising. 
Good form and purity were the rule, and it was 
difficult to make selections. It remains to be seen 
if they have sufficient stamina and vigor. Again 
LUDLOW was about the most perfect white out- 
side the trumpets, but ZERO, TRUTH, KILLALOE, 
ROSTOV, and others were so distinctive and so 
fine that one would not want to be without any 
of them. 
Again GREEN ISLAND demonstrated its value 
for breeding. as several of the finest flowers of 
the season came from it. Its pollen used on 
BREAD AND CHEESE produced three or four 
very fine flowers, of which the best had an ex- 
ceptionally large, geometrically perfect, very 
rounded, flat, white perianth, and a large bowl 
shaped crown with buff or apricot shading. Where 
POLINDRA was the seed parent, there were num- 
bers of satin smooth, beautifully formed flowers 
with cups tinted lemon or apricot, while a large 
series from TUNIS included so many interesting 
flowers of good quality that it was difficult in- 
deed to decide which to select for further trial, so 
many inherited much of their pollen parent’s 
form, with coloring in their crowns associated 
with what we have learned to expect in TUNIS 
seedlings, including buff, apricot, and salmony 
tones, together with cream, ivory, and soft lemon. 
Many give promise of having immense vigor, and 
should be good garden or exhibition flowers. As 
reported before, the interesting series from 
GREEN ISLAND x CHINESE WHITE include 
some of the most satisfying, perfectly moulded 
flowers we have grown. The pink reported last 
year from GREEN ISLAND x GLENSHANE was 
hardly so fine as a year ago but was still very 
nice, and several more with pink tinting appeared 
among its sister seedlings which had not bloomed 
before. 
This was not a particularly good ‘pink’ year, 
as many in this elusive coloring lacked their 
usual depth of tone. MABEL TAYLOR was less 
striking than a year ago, but year in and year 
out, it always is the most striking in its color in 
the garden. ROSARIO, WILD ROSE, and most of 
the Australian and Dutch pinks did not develop 
as much color as normally. Frequent reports from 
others indicate that in some areas varieties such 
as WILD ROSE are entirely lacking in color cer- 
tain seasons, which has never been the case here, 
but there is a wide range of intensity from one 
year to another. Many of the seedlings were simi- 
larly affected by the season, while a few were 
as good as, or better than previous years. Perhaps 
the most vivid, glowing orange toned, rosy pink 
came in a flower from a seedling crossed with 
INTERIM. It stood out quite as notably in the 
distance as would a red and white flower grow- 
ing among all whites. Another good sized, well 
formed flower from (ROSEMARY x MRS. BACK- 
HOUSE) x MABEL TAYLOR was nearly as strik- 
ing. Most of the pinks either do not hold their 
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color long, are fickle in performance, being good 
one year and not the next, or proving outstanding 
in one region and mediocre in another climate: 
and most have too much yellow in their composi- 
tion, making them either buff, salmon, or orange 
toned. One of the best that we have had came 
rather unexpectedly from TUNIS x SHADEEN. 
It has a large, rather long crown of rich salmon 
pink, and fades but little. Thus far it has not 
been a very good increaser. And we have had 
several from WILD ROSE that seem to color more 
consistently than the parent, among which are 
two or three most delightful dwarfs. INTERIM, 
PINK O’DAWN, ROSE OF TRALEE, PINK LADY, 
SHOT TOWER, and EVENING, along with some 
of our own seedlings have been useful in breed- 
ing aside from those mentioned previously. One 
of the rather numerous progeny from TUNIS x 
MRS. BACKHOUSE is one of our most unusual 
seedlings, having an ivory perianth with heavily 
frilled salmon buff crown, which after being cut 
develops a striking rich buff tone in the perianth. 
From the thousands of seedlings being grown by 
hundreds of fanciers, perhaps the pink that we 
are looking for will appear eventually. 
Good bicolor trumpets are still not plentiful, 
but in PREAMBLE we have a flower that would 
be a credit to any class. FORESIGHT is beautiful 
in form, is extremely early, and is a very durable 
flower, but is rather short stemmed. The very 
strongly contrasty flowers EFFECTIVE and 
RATHKENNY are of very good quality. Second 
to none for perfection of form is SPITZBERGEN, 
which is a very pale bicolor, and another that 
might almost pass for a white trumpet is TRO- 
STAN, a vigorous, very fine upstanding garden 
flower. Still another that is highly worth while 
is TROUSSEAU, which some years develops the 
much sought after cheese buff colorings in the 
trumpet. 
Bicolors in the large cupped Daffodils are much 
more plentiful, and it is here that we have many 
of our finest varieties including POLINDRA and 
BODILLY which will not be displaced for years, 
although there are a number of splendid new 
ones that are distinctive in form. Among these 
is STATUE, an elegant, very tall, giant white 
with lemon crown; and we have had some very 
fine blooms from SEBASTOPOL, but the last two 
years the perianths were not sufficiently clean, 
having a slight olive cast; due perhaps to the 
seasons. BIZERTA and DUNMORE have been 
good, the former seeming to improve recently. 
TUDOR MINSTREL looked promising in its first 
blooming here, and a seedling which we intro- 
duced under the name FESTIVITY has given us 
immense blooms with broad perianths of good 
substance, and so flat they appear to have come 
from a press. Were it not for its habit of tilting 
downward at an angle when freshly opened, it 
would, we think, be the peer of all in its class. 
I think it has given us the finest blooms of any 
bicolor we have grown. 
Among the most unique of the varieties that we 
have seen is ARTIST’S MODEL, a large flower 
with white perianth and nearly flat salmon or- 
ange crown with recurved flange laying back 
against the perianth. Other good ones from the 
same New Zealand grower include AUTOWIN, 
MARIE LOUISE, PAPANUI QUEEN, SATIN 
QUEEN, and FAIRY MOTHER. The lovely GALI- 
LEE was beautiful in its first appearance. The 
season ended with the poets and the ethereal, cool 
green eyed flowers of which CUSHENDALL, DAL- 
LAS, FRIGID, CHINESE WHITE, and FOGGY 
DEW are favorites with us. Quite as lovely as 
these are POLAR SEA, SAMARIA, SILVERMINE, 
TINSEL, and SYLVIA O’NEILL. And the garden 
would not be complete without DREAMLIGHT. 
Although the blooming season was of all too short 
duration, and there were disappointments, there 
were many compensations in pleasant surprises. 
PLANT SOCIETIES 
There is no national Daffodil society in America, but the 
American Plant Life Society issues an annual, HERBERTIA, de- 
voted to members of the Amaryllis family and each issue contains 
articles on Daffodils, and the 1953 edition is to feature Narcissus. 
Membership includes payment for a copy of the yearbook. Send 
dues of $3.00 to E. Frederick Smith, Sec’y, Box 2398, Stanford 
University P.O., California. 
The American Iris Society issues fine interesting quarterly 
bulletins. Annual membership of $3.50: Address: Franklin Road, 
Brentwood, Tennessee. 
The American Primrose Society also publishes an instructive 
quarterly. Send dues of $2.50 to Mrs. Earl A. Marshall, Sec’y- 
Treas., 1172 S.E. 55th Ave., Portland 15, Oregon. 
The American Delphinium Society has a year book and bulle- 
tins, both with interesting and practical information. Dues of $3.00 
may be sent to Chas. A. Prochaska, Treas., 2850 Richmond Road, 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
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TWO NEW DAFFODIL BOOKS 
There has been need for a complete, up-to-date, authoritative 
book of Daffodil culture, and such a volume is now available in 
“THE DAFFODIL”, by M. J. Jefferson-Brown. Well written and 
superbly illustrated, it is a comprehensive store of useful infor- 
mation for Daffodil fanciers, giving points on classification, cul- 
ture, exhibiting, and breeding, and many other interesting facts. 
The chapter on Dwarf Narcissi for the Rock Garden is particu- 
larly noteworthy, and those interested in hybridizing and bo- 
tanical structure and relationships among Daffodils should find 
the section on cytology useful. All in all, a splendid addition to any 
Daffodil fancier’s library. We expect to keep a few copies on hand 
but if many orders are received, there may be some delay in re- 
plenishing our stocks from England. Price, $4.50 per copy. 
“DAFFODILS FOR AMATEURS”, a smaller book by the same 
author, is designed to aid less experienced Daffodil growers in 
their problems of culture, both in the garden and with potted 
bulbs. This should serve those who do not have need for the more 
comprehensive work described above. $1.35 per copy. 
SWEENEY, KRIST &@ DIMM, HORTICULTURAL PRINTERS, PORTLAND, OREGON 
