In the Garden
When, at the latest show of the R.H.S., I could divert my gaze from the camellias and forget the overwhelming scent of the magnolias and look at humbler flowers, I seemed to notice a growing fashion among the daffodils. The hybridisers are anti-slimming and in favour of stoutness. Some of the moderately new sorts show astonishing breadth of both petal and trumpet. They may be compared with the physiognomy of the new and the old ,railway engines ; the trumpet is shortened and the whole flower compacted. A good example was the well-named Stout. Lad shown by Wallace, whose nursery at Tunbridge Wells I used to admire above others solely for the glory of the biggest and loveliest weeping birch tree which it happened to enclose. Fingal, in two tints, not one, is another fine example of the stout schooL Among the red centres I liked Fermoy.
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