BARR & SONS, 12 & 13 King Street, Covent Garden, London. 
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BARR’S FAMOUS TULIPS. 
AWARDED MANY GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER MEDALS AND PRIZES AT THE LONDON 
SPRING FLOWER SHOWS. 
(See Illustration on Back Cover.) 
Tulips are extremely hardy, and of easy culture, flowering freely in either sunny or shady situations, 
and developing their handsome showy flowers even in a confined town garden. By a judicious selection of 
Single, Double, and May-flowering Tulips, a most brilliant display of colours may be maintained in the 
garden from early April to end of May. In gardens where the flower beds must be kept gay from the 
earliest dawn of Spring, plant between the Tulips Scilla sibirica, Chionodoxas, Snowdrops, and 
Crocuses ; these flower first, and when out of bloom the leaves form a charming green groundwork for 
the blossoms of the Tulip. Our large breadths of Tulips at the Long Ditton Nurseries in 
Spring create much comment and elicit the greatest admiration b om all who see them. (See Illustration on 
Back Cover.) 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS. 
AWARDED FIRST PRIZE AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S SPRING EXHIBITION, 
LONDON, 1898. 
Those alone who have massed the different varieties of Single Tulips (planting the bulbs 4 inches 
apart) can form an idea of their great beauty and the rich diversity there is in shade and colour, and the 
grand effect they produce grouped in flower beds or borders. The Single Tulip is extensively grown for 
indoor decoration (three or five bulbs in a pot) and cultivated in the same way as the Hyacinth for early 
flowering and succession. 
The varieties of the little early DUC Van Thol Tulips (with exception of the scarlet-edged yellow 
variety , which flowers first) bloom together, and are of the same height, which renders them valuable for 
beds and borders, where a very early Spring display is required, also for early forcing with the Roman 
Hyacinth, &c. 
Hints as to the arrangement of Early Tulips in beds, &e.— A difficulty is often experienced 
by Amateurs in knowing what kind of Tulips to select to bed together, seeing that they are not all the 
same height, and that some are earlier in flower than others. For the assistance, therefore, of purchasers 
we have taken special observations at our Nurseries as to the heights and the order in which the Early 
Single and Double Tulips flower. 
The Heights we give in inches, and the order of flowering is indicated by (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) 
after the name. It wil l be noticed that the Dou ble Tulips generally are a little later-flowering than the 
Singles. The difference in time of flowering between each number is not grea t, so that (1) and (2) m ay be 
bedded together, also (2) and (3), and so on. The varieties of Due Van Thol are not numbered, as 
they flower before any of the others. 
Arrangement Of Colours in Bedding.— The following varieties if bedded together produce 
charming effects : Princess Marianne , Ophir cTOr and Wouverman ; Pottebakker Scarlet , Pottebakker 
White and Chtysolora ; Prince of Austria, President Lincoln and Chrysolora ; Bose Grisdeline and 
Princess Marianne ; Pottebakker Yellow and Thomas Moore ; Chrysolora and Dusart ; Princess Ida and 
Bosamundi ; Duchesse de Parma and Fabiola ; Bosamundi and Bose Superbe ; Couleur Cardinal makes 
a grand show bedded by itself, but Snowdrift goes well with it ; Keizerskroon makes a fine bed with 
Queen Victoria as an outside border. 
Barr’s Selections of Early Single Tulips for Outdoor or Pot-Culture. 
d. 
5 each 30 splendid named vars. ... 15 o 
3 each 30 „ ,, ,, ... 10 6 
3 each 20 „ ,, ,, ... 8 6 
3 each 10 ,, ,, ,, 3/6 & 4 6 
10 each 20 beautiful named vars. 19 
5 each 20 ,, ,, „ 10 
3 each 20 „ ,, ,, 6 
1 each 20 ,, ,, ,, 3 
p. 100 p. doz. 
s. d. s. d, 
4 O. .O 
6...0 8 
Barr’s Beautiful ‘ Rainbow ’ Mixture of Single Tulips. A Special Mixture of bright 
colours in great variety of shades, made up by ourselves, for those who wish for a brilliant effect 
in their flower beds and borders ; it is a far superior mixture to what is usually sold 
per 1000, 45/- ; per 100, 5/ 
D. TOO p. doz. 1 
Artus (2), bright deep scarlet, 
showy, 9 in 
Bacchus (1), rich dark crimson 
10 in 
Bride of Haarlem (3), crimson 
scarlet, feathered white, handsome 
8 in 
Brutus Red (3), orange-scarlet 
edged yellow, dwarf, forces well 
8 in 
Canary Bird (1), fine pure yellow 
11 in 
Cerise Grisdeline (3), purple 
cerise, edged white, very beautiful 
10 in 
21 0...3 
6.. 
6.. 
.0 6 
10 6.. 
p. too p. dor. 
Chanticleer, a fine showy tulip d. s. d. 
coming in with the Due Van Thols, 
scarlet, with golden edge, 6 in. ... 4 6...0 8 
Chrysolora (2), pure yellow, hand- 
some, 12 in 6 6... 1 o 
Claremont, golden-striped 
(1), large handsome flower, scarlet 
and gold, 13 in 13 6. ..2 o 
Cottage Maid (2), beautiful rose, 
with white flush, 9 in 8 6...1 3 
Couleur Cardinal (4), crimson- 
scarlet, a most valuable ‘ bedder,' 
11 in 8 6... 1 3 
Couleur Ponceau (2), pretty 
glowing cherry-rose, with white 
flush outside, 10 in 3 6...0 6 
