Daffodil, Princess Juliana.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 13, 28 September 1910, Page 45

Daffodil, Princess Juliana.

Thi- i> a new daffodil which bloomed for the first time last spring in tht> garden* of Mos-rs. Graaff Brullici- at Leyiien. I chanced to lw there with Mr. E. V Bowie* on the day before 1 he Piin -e--* war. born, and <a\v it among the collection of cut blooms that the firm alway- has in one of its Aieds during daffodil and tulip time. It* size. e-\m-no ’.iy and balance were -«> -triking (hat my friend made a lite-rdze -ketch of it before wc left. The illustration is a reduced reproduction of this -ketch, and gives a very good general impres-ion of what the Hower is like. It i- the rc-ult of a cross between I lit* celebrated King Alfred and 11n* md -o well known Francis Drake, a v«*r\ similar variety, but with paler \ellow colouring and with Die Maximus characleri-l ic- les- marked. Prim css Juliana is a deep vellow self with a large, handsome, boldly ami evenly recurving triiiiqad of tin* verv size the Hower seems to require. It ha- a

flat, even, overlapping perianth with the Fliree inner and the three outer segments differentiated by their sharper or blunter points, the rather marked difference of which gives lightness and grave to what is undoubtedly a great “show” Hower. 11 time proves it to have a good constitution, I anticipate that it will o« t npy among the yellow trumpets an analogous position to that which the •nine firm’s famous Mme. de Graaff does among the paler ones to-day. JOSEPH JACOB.