. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. BULBOUS PLANTS. 285 have the cups of the flower long, often much exceed- ing the length of the sepals. The group, for con- venience sake, may be subdivided into several sections, according to the colours of the flowers. In some eases the cup, or trumpet, is of the same colour as the sepals, in the majority it is darker, and in some, as bi- color, the trumpet is yel- low, and the sepals white. Common D affodil Group (X. pseudo-JSfar- eissus).— In all these the trumpet is yellow, the sepals paler, some- times ap- proaching white. These are albus la- teus
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. BULBOUS PLANTS. 285 have the cups of the flower long, often much exceed- ing the length of the sepals. The group, for con- venience sake, may be subdivided into several sections, according to the colours of the flowers. In some eases the cup, or trumpet, is of the same colour as the sepals, in the majority it is darker, and in some, as bi- color, the trumpet is yel- low, and the sepals white. Common D affodil Group (X. pseudo-JSfar- eissus).— In all these the trumpet is yellow, the sepals paler, some- times ap- proaching white. These are albus la- teus, Nelson i, pallidas, Sco- ticus, and var iformis. These do not differ much from the com- mon native Daffodil, but are more de- sirable for the garden, alius luteus and Scoticus being the best. Belonging to this group are also curious sorts like abscissas, hexangularis, andpumilus. There is also a group of sorts similar to these, but larger, of which the Dutch Dafoclil prin- ceps is the type. Other good. varieties in the group have large flowers of a uniform yellow, so, as may be imagined, the dis- tinguishing points of the sorts are in most cases but slight. A selection of two dozen sorts in the group would include the following:— Captain Nelson. Chinese Gor- don. G. H. Engle- heart. Gladstone. Her Majesty. Hudibras. J. G. Baker (vo- lutus). John Bright. John Nelson. John Vincent. Little Princess. Major (type). Major superbus. Maxhnns (the largest of the group). Morning Star. Mrs. S. Hib- berd. Obvallaris (Ten- by Daffodil), distinct from all others, and one of the earliest to bloom. Propinquus. Shirley Hib- berd. Spurms. Spurius coro- nafrus. T. Boscawen. Thomas Moore. Tott en ham Yellow. Emperor Group. — The variety which gives the name to this group is a noble- flowered kind, the flowers being large, the sepals broad, the cup long and wide. The sepals are pale yellow, the cup deeper. All the varieties in the group partake of the character of the Emperor. A selection o
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