. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). NAECISSUS THE BULB BOOK NARCISSUS white, edged golden. Rowena, large trumpet, silvery whitc-^flushed peach. Snowflahe, white; trump^ tinged apricot. N The forms of N. Pseudo-narcissics are much confused, and mapy of them are placed under various^ead- ings by different growers. The reader wUl find those not mentioiied above
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). NAECISSUS THE BULB BOOK NARCISSUS white, edged golden. Rowena, large trumpet, silvery whitc-^flushed peach. Snowflahe, white; trump^ tinged apricot. N The forms of N. Pseudo-narcissics are much confused, and mapy of them are placed under various^ead- ings by different growers. The reader wUl find those not mentioiied above under such headings as i'^. Mcolor, If. major, If. Tnoschatics, and If. rmtticws. To the above single-flowered forms must be added the following double- flowered ones:— Gapax (or eystettensis), soft lemon- yellow, with numerous starry petals; grandiplemcs, deep yellow; plenissi- musj the old double; scoticus plenus, the double-flowered " Garland Lily "; and plenus, the Double Lent LUy, or Gerarde's White and Double YeUow Daffodil.' N. Tazetta.—This is the "Poly- anthus" or "Bunch" Narcissus, and is the species referred to by the ancient Greek and Boman poets, not If. poetiiyus, as many imagine. It is a widely distributed species, and although largely existing in Italy and Southern France, it is also found in the Canary Islands and Portugal, and from Sjrria to Cashmere, China, and Japan. Its geographical distribution would therefore account largely for its great variation. The typical If. Tazetta has bulbs li to 2 ins. in diameter, four to six narrow and somewhat grey-green leaves 12 to 18 ins. long, ^ to I in. broad, and the somewhat flattened scape bears an umbel of four_ to eight flowers 1 to Ij ins. across. The obovate petals-are _Eure__white, and the' shallow cup-shaped corona is lemon-yello-W, and^from i to ^ in. across. >The Polyanthus Narcissus is per- haps better grown in pots under glass, but it may be grown quite well in the open
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