Passing on to the large cupped varieties, it is 
worthy of noting that GALWAY is not likely to 
be superceded for some time. We still would not 
want to part with CROCUS or BALMORAL. MUL- 
RANY and ST. KEVERNE among the newer ones 
will bear observation. It is among the red cups 
that there is such a host of good ones with vary- 
ing form and color that choosing favorites is dif- 
ficult. We look for ARMADA and CEYLON to be 
leaders in the field but others will furnish stiff 
competition, KRAKATOA does not have the fin- 
ish of either of these, but when at its best in 
form and color (and it does vary considerably), it 
is certainly one of the most striking of all. A 
seedling which we have dubbed FIRE CHIEF with 
not quite so large a flower as in KRAKATOA but 
with similar brilliance and more weather resist- 
ant coloring proved very much of an eye catcher. 
It is tall growing and has an interesting reflexed 
flange on its cup. A _ sister seedling to this, 
SEOUL, was introduced last year. It has much 
less color but attractive form. For real jewel-like 
brillance and prolific blooming, NARVIK is su- 
perb, and for smooth finish and clean cut out- 
lines, DIOLITE and SUDAN would be difficult 
to surpass. Others that we rate highly include 
ROYAL MAIL, INDIAN SUMMER, TINKER, NI- 
GERIA, DUNKELD, GARLAND, and TAMINO, 
the latter not being a very strong grower but 
producing some of the most perfectly formed 
flowers it has been our privilege to see. ARDOUR, 
too, gives excellent form and brilliant color but 
needs protection from wind and sun. We would 
like to see the beautiful color and frilled cup of 
CALIFORNIA GOLD on a shorter necked stem. 
The older RUSTOM PASHA remains one of the 
best in its class, and RED RIBAND is one of the 
best garden flowers because of its prolific bloom- 
ing and bright orange red edged cups. A series 
of seedlings from Red Riband x Diolite gave 
promise in their maiden blooms in their fourth 
year, one in particular having seemed to show 
more brilliance than its seed parent with better 
form, more like Diolite. From Ardour x Klingo 
we obtained PARICUTIN which has a large, 
nearly flat bowl shaped crown of most intense 
deep orange red, the most striking flower of its 
class in the garden. With a bigger, very broadly 
overlapping perianth, MAUNA LOA, too, has a 
large saucer-like crown of quite fiery coloring. 
As noted before, POLINDRA and BODILLY still 
rank near the top among flowers having a white 
perianth and yellow crown, although for exhibi- 
tion, TUDOR MINSTREL seems to have displaced 
all others. Our FESTIVITY should prove a con- 
tender on the show bench with its very large 
flowers of perfect form and tremendous sub- 
stance. A new one from Tunis x Mitylene, named 
WILLAMETTE, gives very tall stems with large 
flowers of very cleanly contrasted white perianth 
and lemon crown. A brief description can tell lit- 
tle of its beauty. Out of Bodilly x Gold Crown 
came a flower of quite startling contrast with 
large white perianth and rich golden yellow flar- 
ing crown. It is in the same classification that 
most of the John Evelyn hybrids belong although 
their form is distinctly different. While they do 
not have the polish and finish of the varieties 
already mentioned they are most effective for 
garden display, and not infrequently win on the 
show table. Our most popular introductions be- 
long to this class and include LINN, CHINOOK, 
PINWHEEL, and SANTIAM. From Holland we 
have DUKE OF WINDSOR, BROOKVILLE, GREEN 
EMERALD and several others and they have 
many admirers. In contrast there is GREEN IS- 
LAND, a finely modeled flower and one of our fa- 
vorites, which has proven excellent for breeding. 
Combined with TUNIS, BREAD AND CHEESE, 
CHINESE WHITE, and GLENSHANE, it has given 
us many of our finest seedlings. The most per- 
fectly formed flower we have grown came from 
it used with Chinese White, and three or four 
others more striking but of not quite such perfect 
balance are numbered in this progeny. A most 
lovely flower of Glenshane form but with apple 
blossom pink crown descended from it crossed 
with Glenshane. 
This leads us to the pinks which are always 
among the most interesting to us. As always, 
MABEL TAYLOR proved the most striking in 
its color class among the named varieties we 
grow, although several seedlings from it surpass 
it in richness. ROSARIO is still quite the finest 
in form of the pinks we have although we have 
not yet bloomed MRS. O. RONALDS and SALMON 
TROUT. A clump of WILD ROSE was most at- 
tractive with its numerous flowers and nice 
coloring. It was the seedling planting that fur- 
nished most thrills, though, and several blooming 
for the first or second time looked promising. 
From Coralie x Dawnglow came a flower of beau- 
tiful form and with good sized, well balanced 
crown of quite rich pink; and another from Mabel 
Taylor x (Broughshane x Wild Rose) was perhaps 
the largest pink of good form and quality that we 
have seen. Several new ones from Mabel Taylor 
and Interim crossed both ways gave intensity of 
coloring that we have never seen in named varie- 
ties, one in particular having a large flaring crown 
with broad band of rosy red. From Interim crossed 
with several of our older seedlings and from Wild 
Rose x Interim there was a range of strong color- 
ing in the pink tones such as we had not hereto- 
fore seen, and there should be much to select from 
for the next three or four years from these lots 
alone. A rather small lot from Mabel Taylorx P ink 
Lace (Shirley Wyness x Pink a Dell) practically all 
bloomed in their fourth year, with all showing 
more or less pink coloring, and several being of 
almost trumpet measurement with nicely frilled 
and ruffled edges. PINK LACE itself has a most 
attractive frilled margin and has quite lovely 
coloring most years although it fades to nearly 
white after being open a few days. Several of 
quite unusual salmon pink in the trumpet or 
borderline group are derived from Pink Lady x 
Shot Tower, and from RADIATION, our 1953 in- 
troduction, crossed with other pinks there were 
several showing some promise. It would seem 
that in not too many years we should have plenty 
of flowers with pink coloring in a wide range of 
form, and perhaps some that will be more uni- 
form in performance. 
FERMOY, KILWORTH, TUSKAR LIGHT, and 
the new SIGNAL LIGHT were again some of the 
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most striking of the large orange and red cups 
with white perianths. In the reverse bicolors 
BINKIE stands alone. Previously grown seedlings 
from it had been quite mediocre, but from it 
crossed with one of our reversed bicolor trumpet 
seedlings there bloomed this last year a few 
which appeared quite distinct and equal in qual- 
ity to BINKIE. We await with interest their per- 
formance from full size bulbs. 
The small cupped varieties include many repre- 
sentatives but comparatively few with yellow 
perianths. CHUNGKING is still the best, while 
CLACKMAR and MARKET MERRY are our choice 
of the lower priced kinds. There are many with 
white perianths of which LIMERICK is one of 
the best. CRETE, MAHMOUD, and MATAPAN 
have more typically exhibition form. We like 
BANTRY very much, and OTRANTO and ORAN 
are very striking. BRAVURA and BLINKBONNY 
are other top varieties here, whereas, BLARNEY, 
with its apricot orange cup is very lovely. AR- 
TIST’S MODEL has somewhat similar coloring 
but with much different form, being entirely 
unique with its flat crown reflexed as the edge. 
The other Lewis varieties, AUTOWIN, MARIE 
LOUISE, PAPANUI QUEEN and SATIN QUEEN 
are all quite large and very lovely flowers. It 
might be added in passing that two of his 2a 
varieties were among the very finest large flow- 
ers to bloom this past season, ILLUMINATE be- 
ing a good flower of large size, and GOLDEN 
TREASURE having a very fine form with a rich 
orange red, heavily ruffled and frilled crown. 
Going back to the small cupped varieties, it 
can be re-emphasized that it is in this group 
that several of our favorite Daffodils are found, 
chief of which is the immaculate, ethereally 
lovely CHINESE WHITE. All of its near relatives 
are delightful flowers, and it would be difficult 
to omit any, but FOGGY DEW, GLENSHANE, 
TINSEL, and SYLVIA O’NEILL are especially 
fine. From the latter combined with RUBRA we 
have had numbers of good things, and GLEN- 
SHANE crossed with varieties carrying pink genes 
not infrequently gives pinks with form quite dis- 
tinct from the usual run of this color. To choose 
between the various pure white, green eyed 
flowers is difficult too, as one wants to grow 
them all, but CUSHENDALL, FRIGID, SILVER 
SALVER, SILERMINE, POLAR SEA, SAMARIA, 
DALLAS, and all the others are so enchanting 
that one is loath to omit any. 
As for the other classes, very brief mention 
will be given. SWANSDOWN remains the finest 
among the doubles. Two interesting new ones 
from Holland are SHIRLEY TEMPLE and HOL- 
LANDIA, while YELLOW CHEERFULNESS is the 
yellow counterpart of the old well liked CHEER- 
FULNESS. We can say little new about the other 
classes. 
In looking through Mr. Jan de Graaff’s trial 
beds last spring we noted several of his new in- 
troductions that looked very good. Two triandrus 
hybrids in particular looked very worth while— 
CATHEDRAL, a very pure white, large flowered 
one, and FORTY-NINER, a prolific sulphur yellow 
hybrid. He had two good sulphur trumpets, 
MOONGLOW and PALOMAR. There were sev- 
eral interesting doubles of which WINDBLOWN 
looked nice, and SUNBURST was one of the 
largest of all Daffodils. There were many pinks 
of which one of the best appeared to be ROMAN 
CANDLE. Our good friend, Mr. M. Fowlds, who 
has been breeding Daffodils for several years, has 
a goodly number of seedlings of which perhaps 
the most interesting are some of the dwarfs, par- 
ticularly some triandrus hybrids. 
We eagerly await the advent of another flow- 
ering season with the realization that it will be 
over all too soon, but recognizing also, that it 
will be followed by a vibrant display of color in 
a small planting of Tulips, and a bit later, some 
other favorites, the Bearded Irises and Russell 
Lupins. One cannot avoid wishing that there were 
less needful duties requiring attention, and more 
time to view and enjoy this handiwork of our 
Creator! 
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