Below are various publications from the American Daffodil Society Archives as well as links to informative articles on the Internet about daffodils. There is also an area with daffodil vistas and an area with links to other botanical libraries. Collections are listed alphabetically, while individual publications are listed by year of publication, beginning with the earliest.
Collections of Publications
American Horticultural Society, Annual Daffodil Yearbooks 1935 – 1938
American Horticultural Society, Daffodil Handbook, 1966
American Plant Life Society, Herbertia, Volume 13, 1946
American Plant Life Society, Herbertia, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1953
Barr, Ye Narcissus or Daffodyl Flowre, 1884 (in 3 parts)
Hills & Dales Estate, LaGrange, Georgia
Horticultural Society of Canberra, Bulletin, Issue 346, November 2013 to January 2014
Midland Daffodil Society, 1899 – 1931
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, U.K.
Solly, Cecil; Hardy Bulbs, 1946, in three parts
Suite101.com — Daffodils, 1997 – 2005
The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Publications from around the world
Pier Andrea Mattioli about The Daffodil, 16th century
Narcissus excerpts, Sweets British Flower Garden, 1833, digitized by Google
Herbert, AMARYLLIDACEAE, 1836 – digitized by Google
Narcissa – Flowers animated – JJ Grandville, (2nd Edition) 1867 (translated from French)
The Book of the Daffodil, Rev. S.E. Bourne; Handbooks of Practical Gardening, 1903
Daffodils, Narcissus and how to grow them, A.M. Kirby; 1909, chapter on poeticus
The Welsh Daffodil and How it Came into Wales, W. Davis, 1912
A Handbook of Narcissus, E.A. Bowles, 1934, chapter on poeticus
Journal of the California Horticultural Society, 1940, daffodil issue
Bulb Growing and Forcing, Northwest Bulb Growers Association, 1957
Daffodils, Mrs. Thomas Linton, Nashville, TN, 1957
The Romance of Daffodils, William C. Brumbach, 1959
The Guy Wilson Garden, The New University of Ulster, March 1974
Narcisos: Kanda, semillas de flores selectas, Folleto No. 19, Tercera edicion
Let’s Grow Daffodils, Lewis Turner, Maryland, USA, 1994
Let’s Plant Daffodils, Howard J. Merrill, New York and California, 1996
Daffodils, the RHS Daffodil and Tulip Committee, 1998
The Narcissus, Michael N. Dana and B. Rosie Lerner, Purdue University, April 2001
The Daffodil Garden, Running Springs, California, 2003
Narcissus Bulb Carving, a Chinese art form
Chinese Sacred Lily Daffodil at Paghat’s Garden, 2004
Pickling Paperwhites-forced bulbs that will not flop over!, 2005
Golden Harvest, The story of daffodil growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, 2006
Microscopic close-up photography of a daffodil, by Brian Johnston of Canada, 2007
South Carolina and the History of American Daffodils, by Sara Van Beck, Southern Edition, Retrieved June 20, 2012: http://southernedition.com/
Daffodil Culture, Enclosure with packages of Mitsch Daffodil bulbs.
Horticultural Classification of Daffodils, 2012, Royal Horticultural Society
South Hobart Daffodil Show Schedule, 2012
Plant Encyclopaedia, by the Alpine Garden Society, a link to Narcissus
Canterbury Horticultural Society (NZ) Newsletter, October 2015
Application to register a daffodil name, RHS, 2017
Association for the safeguarding and promotion of daffodils of the Riviera, 2019
“A guide to the Daffodils of Thriplow,” by Paul Earnshaw, November 2020
Daffodil Vistas
Daffodil Hill, Volcano, California
Daffy Bill’s (Pannill) Daffodils
Gibbs Gardens Daffodils, Manor House, Cherokee County, Georgia
Other Botanical Libraries with daffodil/narcissus contents
Botanicus Digital Library, a portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
Biodiversity Library A consortium of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. Search for narcissus, amaryllid, daffodil, etc.
Cherokee Garden Library, designated library for American Daffodil Society archival
The Huntington Library, designated library for American Daffodil Society archival
Miscellaneous
Collection of drawings from an unknown French Artist
Daffodil Cartoon by Adrian Raeside ©raesidecartoon.com