Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 5, December 1899

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Various. Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 5, December 1899

THE TRAMPS OF BIRDLAND

THE NARCISSUS

FASHION'S CLAMOR

COCA.1

OUR NATIVE WOODS

BIRD WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD

THE RED-TAILED HAWK

A TRANSPLANTING

TWO BIRD LOVERS

WINTER TIME

THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT

BOB-O-LINK

A STUDY OF THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH

THE PILEATED WOODPECKER

THE LYRE-BIRD

ROBERT AND PEEPSY – THE TWINS

THE COWBIRD

THE LEGEND OF SAINT SILVERUS

BIRDS GATHERED HIS ALMOND CROP

STORIES FROM BIRDLAND

DECEMBER

THE WILD CAT

CHRISTMAS ONCE IS CHRISTMAS STILL

THE EUROPEAN SQUIRREL

"IN ORDERS GRAY."

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THE genus of plants called Narcissus, many of the species of which are highly esteemed by the floriculturist and lover of cultivated plants, belongs to the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceæ.)

This family includes about seventy genera and over eight hundred species that are mostly native in tropical or semi-tropical countries, though a few are found in temperate climates.

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The genus Narcissus derives its name from a Greek word meaning "stupor" because of the narcotic effect produced by the odor and by portions of the plants of some species.

There are about twenty-five species, chiefly natives of southern Europe, but some of them, either natural or modified by the gardener's art, are world-wide in cultivation.

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