BARR'S BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH DAFFODILS — con/ in mil. 
tlicm carefully and leave them undisturbed, and don’t overdo them with 
manure. If the soil is fairly good they don't want any at all. They'll do best 
without manure.” 
And so one goes on, gathering wisdom and filling one’s hands with specimen 
blooms. This one is remarkable for the deep vivid brilliancy of its yellow, 
another for the size of its trumpet ; this one is noticeable for its uniformity of 
colouring, and that one for the variety in its shades of yellow ; this was found 
in a romantic district of Northern Spain, that one has come from 1 oitugal, and 
a third has been produced by hybridization in England. And so one moves on, 
at every step getting the honour of an introduction to some proud dame high 
up at the Court of Queen Flora— now the Lady Jane and now the Fair Helen, 
the Lady Grosveuor or the Couutess of Annesley. It is delicious to look at a 
cluster of them all fairly in the face, to breathe in something of their lusty 
vigour, and to trudge oil home with them with something of the exultation 
with which Paris ran away with Helen, or Uois-Guilbert bore off Rebecca. 
This firm has specially ransacked Spain from north to east and west, 
and Portugal and the French and Spanish Pyrenees, and what with those they 
have found, and those produced in England by cross fertilization, the variety 
is immense. W6 may now, if we will, have a constant scries of daffodils fiom 
January till June, and in all sorts of situations. Nothing of the kind can be 
more delightful for the centre of a bed or an irregular clump on the fringe of a 
shrubbery than a good well-grown group of Golden Spur -a great favourite, by 
the way, in Covent Garden, a magnificent trumpet daffodil of brilliant colour 
and noble form— or of Countess of Annesley, rich and varied iu colour. For 
front situations there are many varieties of dainty little pigmies — such as 
Cyclamineus, Nanus, Minor, Minimus, and so forth, very dainty in form and 
pure and brilliant iu colour. Others are especially adapted to rock-work, but 
the most exquisite effects are to be had by letting the stronger and showier 
kinds grow their own way in the turf of some sylvan glade baoked by woods 
or shrubberies. The spring green of the grass, the lusty vigour of the foliage, 
and the free growing and the splendid colouring of the daffodils seem altogether 
to embody the very spirit of the spring — 
Lusty spring all (light in loaves of llowors. 
We owe to foreign countries and to the cunning of English hybridizers most of 
our narcissi, but we have our own indigenous daffodil nevertheless, and there 
are many parts of England where daffadowndillies still perk up them blossoms 
in the fields just as their forbears did when Shakespeare noted that they came 
before the swallows dare. They were the old Lent lilies, the affodyles, as our 
forefathers called them, an old English name which signified “ that which 
cometh early,” and they were probably at one time of day quite in the fore- 
front of the great floral procession of the year, the trumpeters that led the 
way in the “ roaring moon,” and were followed by all the pomp and beauty of 
the floral year, culminating in the roses of June and July. 
BARR & SON, 12 King Street, Covent Garden, London. 
NURSERIES, LONG DITTON, Surbiton Station, South Western Rail, and close to the 
Surbiton New Recreation Grounds. 
Barr's Descriptive Catalogue of English Daffodils, free on application. 
Hards Descriptive General Bulb Catalogue for all Seasons, fi ee on application. 
Bards Hardy Plant Catalogue of all that is best for Flower Beds, Flower 
Borders , and Cutting. 
Bards Catalogue of the Newest and Best Sorts of Vegetable Seeds, to secuic a 
supply for the kitchen the year round. 
Bards Catalogue of Hardy and Greenhouse Flower Seeds , all of the best kinds. 
Fresh Seed just to hand of ARISTOLOCHIA ELEOANS, a, most beautiful new Green- 
house Climber free from the objectionable odour which characterises the species ot 
this genus; colour rich purple crimson, sprinkled over a white ground, the colour 
shadin'* deeper as it descends into the throat of the flower, per pkt, , ]/, 1/0, & 2/6. 
