Country Life
THE BEST DAFFODILS.
It is generally agreed that recent exhibits of daffodils at the Royal Horticultural Show have surpassed everything seen before. The flowers have grown in every sort of favour —in size, colour and beauty of form. The loveliest to my taste are those with " half trumpets," not the immense flowers that have centres which suggest the trumpets of angels in mediaeval pictures. The pick of the bunch in my view, perhaps because I have seen it growing in mass in a trial ground, is Lucinius. The trumpet is broad but not long, with a frilled edge; the petals are very broad and finely shaped, and the colour of both is the true daffodil tint, not the light primrose which is now become popular, and has been bred into many of the best. Perhaps next to it—though again one can only quote a personal taste—is Red Cross which is, so to say, a rather flat flower ; but its trumpet is a brilliant orange, almost red. and of large girth compared with most of those that have red centres.
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