. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. and last season theplant made two more leaves 1 ft. long and 5 in. wide each, andshowed two more spikes of bloom, but, owing to tho leaves notbeing quite so long this season as last, only one spike was present spike is 5 ft. long and 3 ft. across, and the plantmeasures, including tho spike, 6 ft. 2 in. high. There are nearlyeighty flowers on the spike. The block stands about 15 in. out ofthe pot, the plant being on the extreme end of it. Tho temperaturehas been, during the autumn and winter months, from 60
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. and last season theplant made two more leaves 1 ft. long and 5 in. wide each, andshowed two more spikes of bloom, but, owing to tho leaves notbeing quite so long this season as last, only one spike was present spike is 5 ft. long and 3 ft. across, and the plantmeasures, including tho spike, 6 ft. 2 in. high. There are nearlyeighty flowers on the spike. The block stands about 15 in. out ofthe pot, the plant being on the extreme end of it. Tho temperaturehas been, during the autumn and winter months, from 60 to 65 atnight, with a rise of 5° by day, the summer temperature from 70 to75 at night, with a rise by day, and plenty of moisture. Mas. 11, 1876.] THE GARDEN. 239 THE FLOWER GARDEN. WHITE-HOOPED PETTICOAT NARCISSUS. (X. MOXOrnYLLUS.) This is one of the most beautiful of Daffodils, and one whichwould soon become popular were it a little more easy of cul-tnre than it is. Mr. Barr has just bloomed it in a cool framein his bulb grounds at Tooting, and from flowers furnished by. Xarcissns monophyllus. him the accompanying sketch has been made, but no wood-cut illustration can do justice to the crystalline whiteness, thespotless purity of its flowers, which, like those of many of itsallies, preserve their beauty long after they have been cut andplaced in fresh water. Imported bulbs of it flowered at Kewin January, 1870, and from these the figure of it in the Botanical Magazine was prepared. Mr. Barrs plants differfrom the Kew specimens in having the smaller and moreelegant chalice-shaped flowers borne on much longer rush-likescapes, and in the leaves being much longer and more slender, but all the figures and specimens of it which I have seen goto prove that this plant, like its yellow-flowered allies, isavery variable one. Mr. Baker makes it a variety of the com-mon N. Bulbooodium, but others think it deserving of specifichonours, although the distinctive characters, such as thesin
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