The Narcissus, Its History and Culture, Burbidge and Baker, 1875
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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 ■ .-1..1.■.--- i THE NARCISSUS. 1 ii PL 1 N.CORBULAR1/0 BULB 0 CODIUM THE NARCISSUS: rTs HISTORY AND CULTURE WI= COLOURED PLATES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL KNOWN SPECIES AND PRINCIPAL VARIETIES. BY F. W. BURBIDGE, AUTHOR OF "DOMESTIC rumacuma1,-74 "COOL ORCHIDS: AND ROW TO GROW THEM," O. TO WHICH IS ADDED, BY KIND PERMISSION, A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF THE ENTIRE GENUS, BY J. G. BAKER, F.L.S. OF THE ROYAL HERBARIUM, KEW. LONDON: L. REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1875. LONDON : SAVILL, ELW.A.R.D8 AND CO., PRINTERS, CRANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. CONTENTS. PAGE PREVit vu EXPLANATION OF PLATES Zl HISTORY OF CULTIVATED DAFFODILS POETRY OF THE NARCISSUS 4 PROPAGATION 8 CULTURE 14 DISEASES AND INSECTS 19 DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES AND VARIETIES 21 REVIEW OF THE GENUS BY J. G. BAKER, F.L.S. 61 TIME OF FLOWERING 87 SELECT LIST OF AUTHORS, WORKS OF REFERENCE AND ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS, CONTAINING VALUABLE INFORMATION AND FIGURES OF THE SPECIES OF NARCISSUS 89 " There bath beene great confusion among many of our modern Writers of Plants in not distinguishing the • manifold varieties of Daffodils; for every one almost, without consideration of kinde or forme, or other speciall note, giveth names to diursify one from another, that if any one shall receive from severall places the Catalogues of their names (as I bane had many) as they set them down, and compare the one Catalogue with the other, he shall scarce have three names in a dozen to agree together, one calling that by one name which another calleth by another, that very few can tell what they meaner' Joan PARKINSON in Parad. Terr. ed. 1, p. 67, A.D. 1629. • PREFACE. IN offering this short history of a popular genus of hardy bulbs, my object has been to assist horticulturists and amateurs by adding coloured figures to the excellent review of the genus which originally appeared in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" (1869) from the careful pen of J. G. Baker, Esq., F.L S., of the Royal Herbarium, Kew. The plates, representing all the species at present in-cultivation in this country, have been prepared from fresh specimens, while the figures of the autumn blooming kinds, and one or two others not yet in- troduced to our gardens, have been made from the comprehensive series of dried specimens in the Kew Herbarium, or from authentic drawings. Cultural and other details likely to interest the amateur cultivator have also been added, and to further assist those who wish to refer to the literature of the Narcissus, a select list of botanical and other works in which much useful information may be obtained is given. To J. G. Baker, Esq., F.L.S., and Dr. M. T. Masters, F.L.S., I am especially indebted for kind assistance and valuable information, and my best thanks are also due to Mr. P. Barr, F.R.H.S., who very liberally supplied me with numerous fresh specimens of all the cultivated species together with valuable hints on the culture, variations, and nomenclature of garden forms. I am also indebted to the Rev. Harpur Crewe, Rev. H. Ellacombe, Mr. J. Tyerman, and to Dr. D. Moore of the Botanic Gardens Dublin, for fresh specimens and useful information. F. W. B. London, 1875. EXPLANATION OF PLATES. PLATS 1.—A. Narcissus Bulb000dium. (Two forms, the margin of the corona being entire and wavy in one, and distinctly lobed or crenulate in the other.) 1. Perianth segment ; 2. section of leaf, enlarged. B. N. Bulbo- codium, var. lobulata. (This is a dwarf and distinct form with more slender flowers and foliage than in the type.) 1. Perianth segment; 2, section of leaf, enlarged. C. N. Bulb000dium, var. oonspioua. 1. Perianth segment; 2. section of leaf, enlarged. PLATS Bulb000dium, var. monophyllus. (Partly after Fitch in " Florist," 1870, p. 85.) 1. Section of flower ; 2. perianth segments ; 3. section of leaf—all enlarged. PLATE III.—N. Pseudo-Narcissus. —A. A wild form. B. and C. Cultivated forms. 1. Section of flower ; 2. perianth segments ; 3. section of leaf ; 4. section of flower-scape.:–all enlarged. PLATE Pseudo - Narcissus, A. var. major. B. var. (obvallaria) maximus. (The specimens from which the Plate was prepared were from two to three feet in height and very robust, so that the space at command only allows mere fragments of the plant to be here represented.) 1. Section of scape ; 2. section of leaf. PLATE V.—N. Pseudo-Narcissus. A. var. minor. 1. perianth segments. B. var. minimus. 1. Perianth segments ; 2. (Ajax) var. ouneiiblius (after Herbert) ; 8. (Ajax) var. pumilus (after Herbert). The two last varieties are figured in Herbert's "Amaryllidacem," t. 89 and t 43, and are there represented with white perianth segments and a yellow cup. They are smaller than any variety of N. Pseudo-Narcissus now in cultivation, unless they represent pallid forms of our variety N. Pseudo-Narcissus var. mimimus. PLATE Pseudo - Narcissus, var. bicolor. 1. Perianth lobes ; 2. section of leaf. (This is a Linmean species but, however distinctit may look in our Plate, it is united with the common type of N. Pseudo- EXPLANATION OP PLATES. Narcissus by a series of pale colOured forms. Mr. J. Tyerman sent me two forms of N. Pseudo-Narcissus from Tregoney with pale sulphur- tinted perianth segments and clear yellow cups, and these were exactly intermediate links in the chain which unites this beautiful variety with the common type of the species. PLATE VIL—N. Pseudo-Narcissus, var. moschatus. A. A newly opened flower. B. An older flower showing change of colour. 1. Perianth segments; 2. section of leaf, all natural size. PLATE VIII.—N. Pseudo-Narcissus, var. mamma. 1. Perianth segments ; 2. section of leaf, all natural size. PLATE IX.—N. Pseudo-Narcissus. A. var. " Empress." B. var. "Emperor." 1. Perianth segment; 2. section of leaf, all natural size. (These are the finest selected seedling forms of the common Daffodil, and deserve culture in every garden where hardy bulbs are grown.) PLATE X.—N. Pseudo-Narcissus. A. var. flore-pleno. B. Another form of the same plant, the multiplication of parts being confined inside the corona, which is merely an accidental occurrence common to all the double- flowered forms of the present species. C. and D. Another distinct form of the common Daffodil in which the multiplication of parts is confined to the perianth, while the corona is entirely suppressed. This is the Ajax Ey8tetteng8 of Herbert and is now in cultivation. 1. var. absoissus (clipt trunk) ; 2. var. laciniatus (fringed trunk).