BARR’S DAFFODILS. 
THE FAVOURITE HARDY FLOWERS OF SPRING. 
DAFFODILS are the most graceful and beautiful of 
all Hardy Spring Garden Flowers, and withstand uninjured 
our severest winters better than any other flower. The 
cut blooms are always acceptable, and are in abundance 
out of doors at a season when other flowers are scarce. 
1 hey supplement and associate admirably with hot-house 
flowers. 
BARR’S DAFFODILS have been Awarded 
A MULTITUDE OF MEDALS (Gold, Silver-Gilt, 
and Silver), PRIZES AND CERTIFICATES, in- 
cluding the only GOLD MEDAL of the first Great 
Daffodil Conference of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, the GOLD MEDAL at the Wolverhampton 
Spring Show, 1896, and the GOLD MEDAL at the 
Wisbech Spring Show, 1899. 
Numerous Awards amt First-Ci.ass CERTIFICATES have 
also been given to individual varieties. 
PRESS NOTICES OF BARR’S DAFFODILS, 1899 . 
Extract from ‘The Daily News,’ April 29, 1899. 
‘The World of Flowers Among the Daffodils.’ 
‘ If you happen to go, by the London and South Western, down into Surrey, you pass almost imme- 
diately after leaving Surbiton a tract of land lying on your left, which causes you momentarily to doubt 
your own senses. Out of the sober green of the fields there flash upon you suddenly masses of such vivid 
glorious colours as you have never seen unless you have walked, at Easter-time, through Haarlem bulb- 
grounds or through Leyden tulip-gardens. For once the rate of speed on the L. and S.W. seems un- 
necessarily great. Before you have realised that you were in sight of the most famous daffodil grounds in 
the world, you are rumbling along again through neat green unexciting fields. But from Waterloo to 
Long Ditton is only half-an-hour’s journey, and that Londoner is a wise man, or woman, who makes a 
point, during the next fortnight, of paying a special visit to the grounds of Messrs. Peter Barr & Sons. 
It is to Mr. Peter Barr that the name of Daffodil King was given, many years ago, by horticulturists, 
professional and amateur, for it is he who saw the wondrous beauty of the flower long before aesthetes and 
artists had made it fashionable, and when as yet only a few enthusiasts grew it somewhat shyly, and talked 
of it a little apologetically. Mr. Barr, year after year, climbed about the wilds of .Spain, finding new 
daffodils on the slopes of the Pyrenees, and in the corners of Castille and other provinces where even now 
the foot of tourist has never trod. At the age of over seventy he set out, a year or two ago, for one of 
these exploring lours, and if he were not just now on a tour round the world, the Daffodil King would no 
doubt be in Spain, adding yet more recruits to that splendid legion d’honneur of his, which forms the 
finest part of his Daffodil army. Thus, after a lifetime among the bulbs, Mr. Barr has succeeded in 
bringing together the magnificent collection of some 600 varieties of daffodils. Go to Long Ditton and 
see them, that is the best advice to give to any one who would see one of the most magnificent sights 
which can be seen at present in and about London. 
‘ As you catch the first glimpse of the grounds that seem to stretch for miles into the distance, you 
almost gasp. You had not realised that there were so many daffodils in the world, and here they are, in 
one corner of suburban London, flowing like a stream of gold, down, down, down, to Heaven knows 
where. Occasionally a great island of crimson, and flame-colour, and rose -pink, and creamy white 
interrupts this stream. These islands are the early tulips. There, under the shelter of the high bank, 
lies a square as of blue velvet ; the grape-hyacinths are in full bloom. Then a stretch of cool, green tulip 
foliage; beyond, bed offer bed of polyanthus, glowing like jewels. And after that, the daffodils. I am 
