The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . t, which, naturalised in grass, 179177183187180 THE NARCISSUS. THE Narcissus is one of the most classicalof flowers, its glory having been sungby Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, andWordsworth, in imperishable strains. Itseems to have inspired the great poets of allages with imagery of the most beautifuland memorable kind. The immortal tiibuteof him who has been called, not withoutexpressiveness, the High Priest of Nature,to the queen of vernal flowers, is simplicityitself ; yet who that has ever read t
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . t, which, naturalised in grass, 179177183187180 THE NARCISSUS. THE Narcissus is one of the most classicalof flowers, its glory having been sungby Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, andWordsworth, in imperishable strains. Itseems to have inspired the great poets of allages with imagery of the most beautifuland memorable kind. The immortal tiibuteof him who has been called, not withoutexpressiveness, the High Priest of Nature,to the queen of vernal flowers, is simplicityitself ; yet who that has ever read them canforget such exquisite lines as these :? They flash upon that inward eye,Which ia the bliss of is the Narcissus, in any of its mani-fold forms, an exacting plant in the matterof adequate culture; for the humblest cottarwho has the smallest allotment of goodgarden ground can grow it grandly is a great pity, for the sake at least ofsuch poor yet earnest cultivators, that certainvarieties of great beauty, such as the Wear-dale Perfection, and others of even more. Wm^ X
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