ENGLISH DAFFODILS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 17

ENGLISH DAFFODILS

KOYAL HORTICULTUEAL SHOW

(From ''The Post's" Representative.) LONDON* 14th April. Gold is still the predominant hue in daffodils, though other shades are creep' ing in, and the massed thousands of flowera that filled every part of' the Boyal Horticultural Hall, when the annual Daffodil Show waß opened, were a splendid sight. It was the largest and most valuable display of the great narcissus family yet held. The new catalogues described named novelties with prices up to £25 a bulb, but there weTe dozens of unnamed seedlings shown, the two or .three existing bulbs of which would not be parted with for four times that amount. ■ | Fantin' I/atour, probably the largest of the trumpet daffodils, was shown. Its price is a guinea a bulb. The bell of the trumpet measures at least 2J inches in diameter, and the perianth 5 inches across. Little Minimus, the smallest, is barely half an inch across the whole flower. Botanical curiosities of partir cular interest to experts were two stems of different varieties growing] from the same bulb. One bloom was a Double Sulphur Phoenix, and the other a Double Orange Phoenix. It was presumed to be a case of reversion, but which' type of flower was: reverting to the other could not be said. ' In the many large "trade exhibits exceptionally well-grown examples of j Caedmon, Sarchedon, John Evelyn, May | Blossom, Mrs. Francis .King, and Snnny Isle, were in evidence. Other varieties of .special note were Adoration, a suporb white trumpet variety not yet in commorce, which' was considered by many to be vthe best bloom of its class in the show. There was a? Pride of the Market, Mary Bose, a Barrii variety of large size and groat substance, and Citron Queei, a self-coloured variety of a shade which has previously baffled raisers. Mytylene received a first-class certificate, and others which caught tho eye were Fortune, which is still very scareo; Boersheba, Glorious, Croesus, Tonedos, the new pink-cupped Suda, and tho dainty Fairy Circle. In the class for twelve varietios belonging to any division tho first prize was taken by i a grower who had telling vases of Suda, Seraglio, Thorapin, and Bed Sea.