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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Orphee

Perianth primrose, changing to sulphur; cup yellow, edged orange. BARRII (BARR'S WHITE OR WHITISH DAFFODILS, WITH SHORTENED CHALICE-SHAPED CUP). Ada. Perianth sulphury-white; cup yellow.

Albus. Perianth pure white; cup yellow, tinged orange. Beatrice Murray. Perianth creamy-white; cup canary, elegantly edged with orange. Very distinct.

Flora Wilson. Perianth pure white, large; cup canary, strongly edged with scarlet.

General Murray. Perianth creamy-white, broad; cup canary, elegantly edged orange. Very distinct.

Maurice Vilmorin. Perianth creamy-white, broad; cup lemon, conspicuously stained with orange-scarlet. Very distinct.

Miriam Barton. Perianth primrose; cup canary, large. Romeo (primulinus). Perianth creamy-white, dog-eared; cup canary. Very distinct.

S. A. de Graaf. Perianth white, finely formed; cup stained with orange-scarlet, spreading.

Sensation. Perianth pure white, large; cup canary, conspicuously edged orange-scarlet. Very striking flower.

William Ingram. Perianth white; cup primrose, conspicuously stained orange-scarlet, elegant.

LEEDSII (LEEDS' EUCHARIS-FLOWERED WHITE DAFFODILS, WITH WHITE OR PRIMROSE CHALICE-SHAPED CUP).

Acis. Perianth white; cup elegantly stained orange, changing to white. Albion. Perianth white, large and starry; cup canary. Amabilis. Perianth white, large, and spreading; cup passing from primrose to white, long and conspicuous.

Arsinoe. Perianth white; cup canary. Medium-sized flower. Beatrice. Perianth white, fine form; cup changing from lemon to white, remarkably elegant. Of the white hybrids, this is the purest, and possesses the highest type of beauty.

Ceres. Perianth white, neat, and small; cup edged with orange. Circe (gloriosus). Perianth white; cup changing from canary to white. Duchess of Brabant. Perianth white; cup canary.

Duchess of Westminster. Perianth white, large; cup canary, tinged orange on first expanding, long. Distinct and very handsome.

Elegans. Perianth white, large, drooping, and somewhat shouldered; cup primrose, sometimes stained apricot, long. Very distinct. Fanny Mason. Perianth white; cup canary. Medium-sized flower. Flora. Perianth white; cup stained orange. On first opening, the flowers are drooping.

Gem. Perianth white, of model form; cup lemon, passing to white. Very distinct.

Grand Duchess. Perianth white, and starry; cup changing from stained orange to white, spreading.

Hon. Mrs. Barton. Perianth white, large, and broad; cup changing from primrose to white. A remarkable variety.

Ianthe (Vincenti delicatus). Perianth white; cup canary. Medium-sized flower. Katherine Spurrell. Perianth white, broad, and overlapping; cup canary. Large flower; very distinct.

Leedsii. Perianth white, and somewhat starry; cup lemon, changing to white. Madge Matthew. Perianth white, large; cup passing from canary to primrose, elegant.

Maria Magdaline de Graaff. Perianth white; cup suffused orange. Usually two-flowered. Very distinct in flower and foliage; the latter is broad and drooping.

Minnie Hume. Perianth white, large; cup changing from canary to white, large and spreading. A remarkable variety.

Mrs. Langtry. Perianth white, broad; cup white, large. A very distinct flower.

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