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BARR’S HARDY HOOP PETTICOAT AND TRUMPET DAFFODILS. 
No. 1. LIST OF ONLY HIGH-CLASS AND BEAUTIFUL HANDY DAFFODILS, 
WITH A FEW SPECIALLY DISTINCT SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
Bulbs supplied September, October, November, and December. 
In Spring our Collection of Daffodils underwent a very critical examination, which 
resulted in our dividing it into two Sections. NO. 1 SECTION, as follows, embraces the 
highest class, and most distinct varieties, and far surpasses in beauty and rich diversity, any 
assortment of Daffodils, ever before offered to the public. This Section embraces the cream of 
our immense Collection ^ about 500 sorts), and consists mostly of new sorts, many of which 
being offered for the first time 1887, 1888, and 1889. Visitors invited to inspect the 
Daffodils in bloom, February, March, and April, Long Ditton Nursery, five minutes’ walk from 
Surbiton Station, S.W.R. 
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1887. 
1833. 
1889. 
Those without any special indication are 3pocies and varieties known before Backhouse’s and 
Beads’ Daffodils were introduced by us. 
indicates the Daffodils which have been awarded First-Class Certificates. Many of 
our finest Daffodils have not been Certificated, owing to their not being in condition when the 
Certificating Committees met. We simply name this to guard purchasers against supposing that 
those Certificated are the only varieties of high merit. 
NARCISSUS CORBULARIA 
(Bulbccodium). 
The Hoop Petticoat, or Medusa’s Trumpet Daffodils. 
These, Jor pot-culture, are beautiful, 6 or more bulbs in a 
4 or 5-mch pot, or a greater number in flat pans. 
Quantity. per doz. each 
s. d. s. d. 
Large Yellow Hoop Petticoat 
(Corbularia conspicua), golden- 
yellow, charming for edgings, small 
beds, and pot-culture... p. ioo, 7/6 1 
extra sized bulbs, p. 100, 10/61 
*White Hoop Petticoat (C. Mo- 
nophylla, C. Clusii), pure white, 
grow in pots or under shelter of 
hand lights or frames, 
fine cultivated bulbs, p. 100, 18/ 3 
*Large Sulphur Hoop Petticoat 
(Corbularia citrina), beautiful pale 
sulphur, early p. 100, 7/6 1 
larger bulbs, p. 100, 10/6 1 
*Small Yellow Hoop Petticoat 
(Corbularia tenuifolia) rich yellow, 
early and beautiful in pots or 
edgings 3 
,*Small Yellow Hoop Petticoat 
(Corbularia nivalis), early and 
beautiful in pots or edgings 3 
,+Tiie Long-flowered Yellow 
Hoop Petticoat. In size this is 
intermediate between the small and 
large-flowering varieties ; collected 
in Spain by Mr. Barr, 1888, early.. 3 
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AJAX, or TRUMPET DAFFODILS. 
Yellow Varieties. 
These, cultivated in jpots, are exceedingly decorative indoors, 
and extensively used for this purpose, 3 to 5 bulbs in a 5-inch 
Quantity. pot. per doz. each 
* Achilles, perianth light yellow, 8 * d - a - 
trumpet rich yellow, early 3 6...0 4 
*Ard Righ ( Yellow King), large full 
yellow perianth, trumpet large and 
deep yellow, early p.100,32/6 4 6...0 6 
***Automedon, perianth yellow, 
trumpet very large and full yellow, 
a distinct handsome Daffodil 7 6...0 9 
*Blondin, perianth yellow, trumpet 
large and full yellow 3 6...0 4 
***Calvas Yellow perianth pale 
yellow, trumpet yellow and evenly 
serrated, a distinct beautiful 
Spanish Daffodil, early 5 6...0 6 
*Captain Nelson, perianth rich 
yellow and very large, trumpet long, 
broad, & spreading, very handsome 15 o 
^Challenger, perianth sulphur, 
trumpet yellow, elegantly serrated, 
beautiful and distinct 10 6...1 o 
,+Countess of Annesley, perianth 
sulphur-yellow, rich full yellow, 
large trumpet 7 6...0 9 
,*Coronatus (General Gordon), 
large light yellow perianth, broad 
expanded full yellow trumpet 18 0...1 9 
[ Barr and Son, 
