The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Perianth white, shading to primrose; trumpet orange-yellow, broadly expanded at brim, fringed and lobed.

TRUMPET DAFFODILS--WHITE OR WHITISH.

Cernuus pulcher. Perianth silver-white; trumpet primrose, passing to white, large, bold, spreading.

Colleen Bawn. Perianth pure white, broad, and twisted; trumpet pale sulphur, passing to white.

C. W. Cowan (Cowani). Perianth white; trumpet sulphur. Very distinct and elegant.

Dr. Hogg. Perianth white; trumpet primrose, passing to white, long, smooth at brim, elegantly recurved.

Exquisite. Perianth sulphur-white; trumpet primrose, passing to white. Early, and very distinct.

F. W. Burbidge. Perianth white; trumpet sulphur, passing to white, long-ribbed, and elegantly gashed. Very distinct.

Gertrude Jekyll. Perianth and trumpet almost uniform sulphur. Very distinct. Mrs. F. W. Burbidge. Perianth white; trumpet primrose, passing to snow-white, straight, in the way of F. W. Burbidge and flowers same time, Rebecca Syme (the Violet-scented Daffodil). Perianth white; trumpet citron. This variety is as remarkable for its refined beauty as for its exceptional Violet fragrance.

St. Bridgid. Perianth pale sulphur-yellow; trumpet canary. A large and very handsome flower.

Sir Stafford Northcote. Perianth white; trumpet pale sulphur, long. Very distinct.

Tortuosus (the Great Tortuose White Spanish Daffodil). Perianth pure white, usually twisted, and somewhat shorter than the trumpet, which is pale sulphur, changing to snow-white.

William Goldring. Perianth snow-white. long, dog-eared, completely enveloping the primrose trumpet. The arching of the stem, and drooping of the flower, fairly entitle this variety to the name "Swan's Neck Daffodil." W. P. Milner. Perianth and trumpet sulphur. Small, neat flower; very distinct. TRUMPET DAFFODILS--DOUBLE.

Capax plenus (Queen Anne's Double Daffodil). Flowers of a pale lemon colour, very handsome.

Cernuus flore elegantissimo pleno (The Double White Trumpet Daffodil). Grandiplenus (The Dwarf Double Light Yellow). This flower spreads to a large size when fully open, and a fine specimen will show as many as ten or twelve centres, from which petaloid bodies radiate, thus having the appearance of ten or twelve small Narcissi bound together.

Nanus plenus. This is supposed to have been raised from seed by Dr. Brown, of Hull.

Plenissimus (John Tradescant's Great Rose Daffodil). Pseudo-Narcissus plenus (The Double Lent Lily, or Gerard's White and Yellow Double Daffodil).

Telamonius plenus (Wilmer's Great Double Golden-yellow Daffodil). Group II. Mediocoronati.

INCOMPARABILIS (NONSUCH YELLOW DAFFODILS, WITH CHALICE-SHAPED CUP). Autocrat. Perianth yellow; cup yellow, and much expanded. Beauty. Perianth sulphur, barred yellow; cup margined orange, large. Remarkably large distinct flower.

C. J. Backhouse. Perianth yellow, medium size; cup rich orange-scarlet, very large and long. The most remarkable and attractive of the yellow forms of incomparabilis.

Concolor. Perianth yellow; cup yellow.

Darling (marginatus). Perianth sulphur; cup yellow, edged orange. Edward Hart. Perianth and cup full yellow. Very distinct. Figaro. Perianth yellow; cup stained orange-scarlet, large and spreading. Large flower.

Frank Miles. Perianth yellow; cup large and neat. Very large and remarkable. Gloria Mundi. Perianth medium size; cup heavily stained bright orange-scarlet, large, and very much expanded.

Hogarth. Perianth primrose; cup yellow, large, and spreading. Very distinct. John Bull. Perianth sulphur; cup large and spreading. Large flower. King of the Netherlands. Perianth sulphur; cup stained orange, very large, spreading. Very distinct and beautiful.

Leedsii. Perianth yellow; cup heavily stained with orange-scarlet. Longshanks. Perianth sulphur; cup large. Plant tall. Magog. Perianth sulphur; cup large. Fine large flower. Mrs. A. F. Barron. Perianth yellow; cup margined with bright orange-scarlet, straight and narrow. Flower small, and very neat.

Queen Sophia. Perianth sulphur; cup heavily stained orange-scarlet, very large, spreading, and frilled. Very distinct.

Sir Watkin. Perianth rich sulphur; cup yellow, tinged with orange. The largest in the section.

Sulphureus. Perianth sulphur; cup yellow.

Titian. Perianth yellow; cup margined orange. Flower large. INCOMPARABILIS (PEERLESS, WHITE OR WHITISH DAFFODILS). Albert Victor. Perianth sulphur-white, large; cup large, and elegantly expanded. Very distinct.

Albidus. Perianth sulphur-white; cup yellow.

Albus. Perianth white; cup yellow.

Annie Baden. Perianth sulphur-white; border of cup elegantly contracted and stained orange.

Bertie. Perianth sulphur-white, broad; cup yellow, edged orange. A beautiful plant.

Cynosure. Perianth primrose, changing to white, large; cup conspicuously stained orange-scarlet, large. Remarkably showy.

Fair Helen. Perianth creamy-white and well-formed; cup elegantly edged with orange, straight.

Gog. Perianth creamy-white, large; cup yellow, large. Goliath. Perianth white, barred yellow, large; cup yellow, large. Harpur-Crewe. Perianth white; cup fine yellow.

Lorenzo. Perianth soft primrose, changing to white, slightly dog-eared; cup yellow. Very distinct.

Mary Anderson. Perianth pure white; cup bright orange-scarlet. Very distinct. Mrs. Syme. Perianth sulphur-white, short; cup yellow, large, and spreading. Flower comparatively small. Plant tall, very distinct. Princess Mary. Perianth creamy-white, broad, and well imbricated; cup suffused orange-scarlet, large, very much expanded, and perfectly smooth. Fine form. Queen Bess. Perianth white, large; cup light yellow, large, much expanded. Very distinct.

Semi-partitus. Perianth pale primrose; cup sulphur, deeply and distinctly lobed. A remarkable flower.

Stella. Perianth white, large; cup yellow, fine.

BARRII (BARR'S YELLOW DAFFODILS, WITH SHORTENED CHALICE-SHAPED CUP). Barrii. Perianth and cup yellow, going off primrose. Conspicuus. Perianth yellow, going off sulphur, large, broad, spreading; cup conspicuously stained orange-scarlet, broad, short. A remarkable flower, of great beauty.

Golden Gem. Perianth rich full yellow, passing to primrose; cup yellow, edged orange.

Mimico. Perianth sulphur; cup yellow. Very fine.

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