The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the by Bailey L. H. (Liberty Hyde) 1858-1954

Author:Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gardening
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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NAPOLEONA

NARCISSUS

goal stamens also connate at biuse. In tlic I'lora of Trop. Afr. the fls. arc said to bo rod, ululc or \>\\u\ Els«"\vhere it is statod tliat tho ils. turn lihiish as tlicx' dway. The names and illustrations of the species are oonfustvl. The names met in horticultural literatun> are A". iHi/xTi'<i/i,s, Heauv., A'. Htudcldtii, Juss., X. Whil-fieldii. Lem., A". Mdimii, Miers, .V. cuxpiditUi, Miers, A'. .UitTsii, Hook. f. In B.M. "199, some of the syn-onomy of the species is explained, with references to fipur«>s.

NARCISSUS (name probably derived from the story of the youth Narcissus, in mythology). Atimrylliiiamr. NAiu'issrs. Dakkodil, Well known and desirable mostly spring-blooming bulbs, hardy antl also used for forcing.

Plants with tvmicated bulbs, from which arise the fohage and the fl.-scapes: Ivs. linear or even subvilate, usually appearing with the bloom: fls. white, yellow or seldom green, erect or pendent, solitary or umbellate on the top of the scape or peduncle, the sjiathe 1-lvd. and membranous; perianth salverform, the tube varying in shaiie, the t) segms. equal or nearly so ami ascending, spreading or reflexed, the throat bearing a corona or crown which is long and tubular (trumpet daffodils), or cu{>-shaped, or reduced to a ring; stamens t), attached in the perianth-tube, the filaments short or long; ovary 3-celled, the style filiform and the small stigma 3-lobed: caps, membr.inous, loculicidal, bearing globo.se or angled seeds.—The species of Narcissus grow natively

in Cent. Eu. and the Medit. region and eastward through Asia to China and Japan. Many species-names K=^ ;s^-\ I /ju It n « are in the literature, 1 ^<^^9kii^^^ 1 II M niost of them representing variants or hybrids, for the plants are extensively cult, and have received much attention from fanciers; probably 2.5 or 30 species represent the original stocks. The I) r o m i n e n t species-types from the horticultural point of view are A'. Psewdo-Narcia-sus (the common daffodil), A^. Bulbocodiurn (hoop-petticoat daffodil), N. Tazella (polyanthus narcissus), A^. Jonquilla (jonquil), A', poeticus (poet's narcissus).

It is customary to throw the cultivated narcissi into three main groups, found(Ml on the length or size of the crown or cup in the perianth: I. The true daffodils or trumpets (Magnicoronati; Figs. 24.37-2442), those with crown.s equaling or surpassing the perianth-segments in length; here belong N. Pxrudo-Narci^sux, N. FSulbo-cndium. II. The star-narcissi or chalice-flowers (Mediocoronati; Figs. 244.'i-244()), with crowns about half the length of the .segments, as N. Iriamlrus, N. incomparahilis. III. The true narcis,si (Parvicoronati; Figs. 2447-24.50), in which the crown is very shor.t or reduced to a rim, a.s A^ poeticux, N. Jonquilln and N. Tazetta. With the introduction of hybrid races, this old and usual cla-isification becomes confused. It is sug-gfMted, therefore, Iw S. Eugene Bourne, an English authority, in "The Garden," "that the first step to an improved classification—a step which requires a v('ry slight alteration in the present system—should be to form group I exclusively of true daffodils, and group III exclusively of true narcissi. All seedling.s resulting from the union of

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