Received: from mgmt.utoronto.ca (fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca [128.100.43.253]) by mail1.texas.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA13065 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 18:05:27 -0600 (CST) Received: by mgmt.utoronto.ca (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.7/26Jan98-0432AM) id AA02947; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:04:05 -0500 From: LouisFors@aol.com Message-Id: Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:03:51 EST To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Daffodils Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 49 Sender: owner-emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: abc3cb111c336a1f3a103ce6f843bae4 Jinpeng wrote: >I know little about daffodils. Do they drift along the water? Let me take a shot at what daffodils are, Jinpeng, since I haven't seen a reply by other emwebbers. Daffodils are perennial plants (that is, the bulbs bloom every year, not requiring replanting each year). They bloom in spring, April in Amherst, as ED notes in #927. In the gardens that I know daffodils are lovely harbingers of spring. I plant them, along with crocuses (which bloom earlier in the year), and look forward to the blooms in the garden because they are a happy signal, for me, that winter in the north is over. They poke their flowers (yellow or white normally) up out of the earth, and suggest to me that Eliot may be wrong about April being the cruelest month. The flowers last for a short time--perhaps two weeks--and then drop onto the ground. Daffodils are earth- bound plants and do not float on the water. I'm not sure what seasonal signifance daffodils have in parts of this country where winter does not regularly occur, certainly not the same as in Amherst, where their appearance must be a delight, except, of course, to the "souls that snow." Lou