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The Chinese Sacred Lily
LITERATURE.
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Laufer, B. Sino-Iranica. Field Museum of Natural History Publica-
tion No. 201. Anthropological Series, Vol. XV, No. 3 (1919) pp. 427-8.
2. 花鏡一花草頰卷五一陣子訂輯
3. 佩文齋廣群芳譜五十一
4. 群芳譜真部第四冊一王象普藎臣甫纂輯
5. 古今圖書集成一博物彙編一草木典一花部(1056號)及一水仙部(1076號
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FOOTNOTES.
Contribution from Lingnan Natural History Survey and Museum.
Professor R. C. Ching discovered a wild species of Narcissus in southern Chekiang and
northern Fukien which may prove to be the prototype of the cultivated form.
2. Identification by Dr. E. D. Merrill of specimens in the Lingnan University Herbarium. 3. Cantonese: Shui Sin Fa.
4.
The writer has seen bulbs being forced in temporary shallow reservoirs constructed on a village threshing floor by laying bricks end to end with the joints caulked with mud. This arrangement is very inconvenient and is resorted to only by men who cannot afford the usual equipment in the way of movable wooden tubs. Another method once observed, is that of sinking the bulbs in a heap of moist sand and covering its surface with black ash of rice straw (Figure 5).
5. Cantonese: Cheung chau.
6.
The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Rev. Veenschoten, of Changchow, whose services as interpreter were an indispensible aid during the conversation with Mr.
Ch'an Muk,
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EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
Figure 1. Photograph showing lateral and vertical view of two Narcissus bulbs secured by the writer at Chang- chow. The upright bulb still retains the mud fill- ing at its base.
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Figure 2.
Partial view of a temple courtyard where Narcissus bulbs are being forced. The tubs in the fore- ground contain carved" bulbs while those in the background are filled with normal ones.
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Plate 27
Figure 1.
bucket and sprinkling can at the right. The bulbs are sprinkled five or six times a day.
barrier of bamboo and straw protects the young plants from the north wind.
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Plate 27 Figure z.
Plate 28 Figure 1.
Plate 28 Figure z.
Plate 29
Bulbs are sometimes forced by plunging them in sand
covered with a layer of black ash of rice straw. Forcer giving detailed attention to a specimen of Haai
Chaau Shui Sin.
A tray of partially developed Haai Chaau Shui Sin (Carved, or Crab's Claw Narcissus) showing the domes of cotton.
Single flowered Narcissus treated as a table plant
(p'oon ts'oi)
December 1932.
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