In the Channel Islands, between England and France, there has come a windfall in the recent fashionable turn for Narcissuses - they are grown by the hundreds of thousands as tuberoses are here. But will the fashion hold? If it will, Americans might take a hand in the trade. There is some doubt about its permanency over there. A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle says:

"The Narciss growing was at first somewhat of a venture. Nobody would have dared to prophesy, five years ago, that about every three ladies out of five would take their revenge on the youth who preferred his own image to their charms, by wearing the posthumous emblem of his existence in the bitter cold winds of February and March. Yet so it is. Will what appears a fickle caprice endure as a fashionable furore? This is a question frequently put by the islanders".