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The most famous and still most beloved daffodil is the large-flowered, yellow-trumpeted King Alfred. Its counterpart in white is Mount Hood. Other large-trumpeted favorites are Binkie, Trousseau, Filly, and Ice Follies. Another old-fashioned but more delicate favorite is Actaea, with its white, dogwoodlike petals and very short, red-rimmed yellow cup. Also wonderful is the more idiosyncratic wild narcissus that Actaea comes from, N. poeticus var. recurvus, known as Pheasant's Eye. Favorites among small-flowering varieties are February Gold, Silver Chimes, Jenny, Jack Snipe, and the miniature Tête à Tête. Others that, like Hawera, are fragrant and multiflowering but taller, are Thalia (a must-have), Tresamble, Ice Wings, Sweetness, Liberty Bells, and Pipit.

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