Orange Daffodils
The evolution of the daffodil proceeds apace. A wonderful show was held by the R.H.S. on the eve of the date when the wild Lent Lilies began to carpet with gold the paddocks of Hertford and Hereford, to quote two of their favourite grounds. The tendency is still towards the forms with the shorter trumpet and to the encouragement of scarlet at the centre. Personally I have found that some of the pale-coloured sorts of the Leedsii type have flourished as abundantly in grass and without special attention as the wild daffodil itself. Those who delight in the paler flowers, that combine white with faint primrose yellow, find it difficult to better White Lady, which is rather an early flowerer ; but re4 is more fashionable, and some of the newer examples are very resplendent. "Fortune's Creed," given an award of merit the other day, is glorious both in colour and shape. The cup is redder than an orange and the broad, firm petals are a bright yellow. One daffodil in the show out-topped all others by a wide margin in mere size. It is of traditional. form and colour, is named Shanghai and measures between
four and five inches across.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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