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shelagh

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« on: October 20, 2017, 09:52:46 PM »
Brian is reading Lady Sale's Diary about the retreat from Kabul in 1841/2 and amidst the hunger and earthquakes she reports that someone brought her a bunch of Narcissus, about which she was very pleased having rarely seen a blade of grass.  Any one have any idea which Narcissus that would be?
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ian mcdonald

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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2017, 11:36:15 AM »
Shelagh, it could be one of the Tazetta group. They have a wide distribution from Spain to China and vary from region to region. Collins guide to bulbs by Patrick M Synge. The internet has it as Tozeta.
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2017, 02:23:52 PM »
Thank you Ian, I hadn't realised until this that Narcissus grew in Afghanistan.
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