September  10,  1903. 
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ESTABLISHED  1832. 
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Successors  to  the  late  BARON  VAN  PALLANDT. 
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HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS, 
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varieties  under  glass.  As  soon  as  it  becomes  known  it  will 
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Jfiui[iml  rtf  gflrti([ultoi[e. 
THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10.  1903. 
Classification  of  Narcissi. 
he  first  and  main  object  of  all 
J  classification  is  to  simplify  the 
study  of  objects  of  interest  in 
an  orderly  way,  and  to  facilitate 
their  recognition.  With  the 
botanical  classification  of  the 
Daftbdil  or  Narcissus  we  have 
nothing  to  do  here,  since  the  arrange¬ 
ment  made  by  Mr.  J.  G.  Baker  in  the 
“  Gardeners’  Chronicle  ”  of  1869  is  still  the 
best  to  employ  in  diagnosing  the  true  or  wild 
species.  The  fir.st  attempt  to  define  pseudo- 
Narcissi  from  true  Narcissi  for  garden  pur¬ 
poses  was  made  by  Parkinson  in  his  classical 
“  Paradisus  in  Sole,  or  the  Garden  of  Pleasant 
Flowers,”  originally  published  in  1629,  or,  say, 
thirteen  years  after  the  death  of  William 
Shakespeare,  whom  Parkinson  long  survived. 
That  a  few  additions  to  Mr.  Baker’s  system 
are  now  considered  needful  is  mainly  due  to 
the  enormous  strides  made  in  the  hybridisation 
and  cross  breeding  of  these  beautiful  Spring 
flowers  by  modern  cultivators,  and  especially 
by  the  Rev.  G.  H.  Engleheart,  to  whose 
industry  and  forethought  nearly  all  the  very 
finest  and  best  of  modern  seedlings,  and  at 
least  two  of  the  distinct  new  sections,  are  due. 
The  two  new  sections  at  present  to  be  pro¬ 
vided  for,  as  not  coming  under  Mr.  Baker’s  or 
Mr.  Peter  Barr’s  classifications,  are,  firstly,  the 
Johnstonei  group,  or  the  hybrid  offspring  of 
N.  pseudo-Narcissus  and  N.  triaudrus ;  and, 
secondly,  the  flat,  or  disc-crowned  section, 
which  Mr.  P.  R.  Barr  and  myself  propose 
should  be  called  Euglebearti,  after  their  raiser, 
Mr.  Engleheart, 
lu  justice  to  the  Narcissus  Committee  of  the 
Royal  Horticultural  Society  it  ought  to  be 
stated  here  that  when  Mr.  P.  R.  Barr  and 
myself  brought  our  proposed  system  of  classi¬ 
fying  Garden  Daffodils  before  them  at  the 
Drill  Hall  meeting  of  April  14th,  1902,  they,  as 
Readers  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Qardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meeting's,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THB  HDITOR,”  iti 
12,  Mitra  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  B.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  n..  other 
address. 
No.  12H.— VoL.  XLVIL,  Third  Series. 
