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BARR’S Gold Medal English Daffodils, 1896. 
BARR’S 
BEAUTIFUL 
HARDY 
ENGLISH DAFFODILS. 
THE FAVOURITE FLOWERS OF SPRING. 
BARR’S DAFFODILS have been Awarded A MULTITUDE OF 
MEDALS (Gold, Silver-Gilt, and Silver), PRIZES & CERTIFICATES, 
including the only GOLD MEDAL of the Great Daffodil Conference 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, April 15th, 1890, and the GOLD 
MEDAL at the Wolverhampton Spring Show, April 9th, 1896. 
Numerous Awards and First-Class Certificates have also been given to 
individual varieties. 
THE GREAT DAFFODIL CONFERENCE OF 1896, 
HELD AT THE GARDENS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT’S PARK, April 14th & 16th, 1896. 
Extract from the Daily Telegraph , April 15th, 1896. — “Yesterday was consecrated to Tiie Daffodil 
. . . in the famous garden of the Regent’s Park. Learned, artistic, and oesthetic ladies and 
gentlemen lectured) discussed, and conferred about the Daffodil in the Botanical Museum, under the 
presidency of Mr. J. G. Baker, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew. Botanists of experience and rare talent 
went Daffodil mad. They gave us its early history, they traced it from its first wood-block engraving, 
they told us how to grow it in the garden and how to plant it on the grass .... they showed us 
the Daffodil in art, the Daffodil in decoration, and the Daffodil of the dado and afternoon tea-cloth,” &c. 
Extract from Tim Garden, April 18th, 1896.— “ A collection of Daffodils of almost bewildering extent and 
splendour was exhibited by Messrs. Barr & Son, of Covent Garden. This exhibit was magnificent, by far the finest of 
its kind in the Show. The flowers were in splendid condition, finely grown, brilliantly coloured, and effectively 
staged.' 
Extract from The Times, April 16th, 1896.—“ The most noticeable feature was the exhibit of Messrs. Barr & Sou ; 
of Covent Garden, representing almost every species of Daffodil.” 
Extract from “The Garden,” April 25th, 1896. 
NEW AND CHOICE DAFFODILS AT LONG DITTON. 
“ If among the numerous readers of The Garden there be any who have yet failed to realize the great wealth of beauty 
that exists among these exceedingly varied flowers of spring, they cannot do better than proceed at once to Long 
Ditton to see the waving masses of Daffodils now in bloom. To the best old and popular kinds that may be seen in 
their thousands are being added, year by year, new and choice kinds in considerable variety, that seem to leave many 
of the older sorts far away in the rear. Indeed, in their infinite variety they are well-nigh bewildering. The entire 
collection of Daffodils at Long Ditton covers something like 20 acres, and to see them over this area would occupy no 
little time. It was by a happy thought, therefore saving much valuable time for themselves as well as the great stream 
of visitors at this season of the year, that Messrs. Barr & Son planted a collection together where in a comparatively 
short time the great bulk of the varieties can he seen side by side. One other feature gained by this collection is 
that these being more or less permanent, reveal in truer character many of the finer sorts of these flowers, and 
visitors are thereby enabled to realize them at their true worth. For example, such flue robust kinds as Empress, 
Emperor, Horsfieldi, Maximus, Golden Spur, and others are hearing their huge blossoms some two, three, and 
even four from a bulb, which at once displays to advantage these grand forms when they are established in the 
Barr s Daffodil Prizes awarded Spring, 1896, see back cover. 
