AUTUMN 1907. 
Barr’s 
“ Gold Medal ” Daffodils. 
DAFFODILS are the most graceful and beautiful of all Hardy Spring Flowers, and withstand 
uninjured our severest winters better than any other dower. The cut blooms are always acceptable, and 
are in abundance out of doors at a season when other flowers are scarce. They supplement and associate 
admirably with hot-house flowers. 
We have again been awarded the highest prizes for Daffodils during the Spring of 1907, including 
TWO GOLD MEDALS, 
Eight Silver & Silver-gilt Medals for Groups, & several Awards of Merit for individual varieties. 
PRESS NOTICES OF BARR’S DAFFODILS. 
Extract from “ Gardener’s Magazine,” May 4th, 1907. 
DAFFODILS AT SURBITON. 
“The daffodils did not ‘take the winds of March with beauty’ this year, but delayed their coming 
until April. Even in the far-off Scillies, laved by the Gulf Stream, the season was nearly three weeks 
later than usual, and in the home counties 1907 is the latest daffodil season for nine years past. 
“ So early, so hardy, and so beautiful are daffodils, and so varied is their form and colour, that there 
is little wonder they have become immensely popular during recent years, or that their popularity is greatly 
on the increase. Several societies exist solely for the glorification of daffodils, and some of these, the one 
at Birmingham, for instance, hold a fine exhibition, and are w’ell supported. The Royal Horticultural 
Society has its own Daffodil Committee, and as many as forty new varieties of daffodils are sometimes 
placed before it in one day. The work of.raising seedlings goes merrily on, and for every person or firm 
engaged in this pursuit ten years ago there are now ten so occupied, and it is interesting to notice that 
clergymen are taking as keenly to daffodils as to roses. 
“ This is not the place to deal with the history of the daffodil, but it must be said that it is rarely 
given to one man to see the results of his labours in such a w.ay as Mr. Peter Barr has done. But for his 
persistence the coming of the daffodil would have been delayed for many years, in all probability ; he 
brought together a collection of existing varieties, hunted for new d.affodils in Spain, raised new ones at 
home, and exhibited daffodils so freely that at last the general public became interested and attracted, and 
then all was plain sailing. 
“ Though Mr. Peter Barr is resting from his labours, the work is being carried on by his sons, and at 
their large nursery near Surbiton there is just now a delightful display of daffodils well worth a visit. The 
popular varieties, and those that are rapidly growing in favour are represented by large breadths, and it is 
when the daffodils are seen in bulk, as here, that the differences of form, colour, and habit are best 
distinguished. 
“ It is interesting to watch the gradual improvement, and how in the course of a few years varieties 
become superseded by others. In a few cases there seems to be little fear of a variety losing its popularity. 
For instance, what is to oust Emperor, Empress, Barrii Conspicuus, and Poeticus Ornatus from 
the position they have long held ? Among the lighter-hued trumpet daffodils such charming varieties as 
J. B. M. Camm and Mdme. de Graafp are becoming cheaper and more widely grown year by year, and 
already their use as pot plants and for bedding have been demonstrated many times over. Of course, there 
are finer forms and greater purity in the splendid Peter Barr and Mrs. G. II. Barr, both white 
varieties, and the former still the King op White Trumpet Daffodils. It is not yet popular, because 
the price — twenty-one guineas per bulb — is rather prohibitive. It is, however, a wonderfully free grower 
and bloomer. 
“ For its brilliant golden-yellow colour Maximus has not yet been surpassed, but the variety does not 
take kindly to every soil and situation, hence many people have to be content with Golden Spur and 
Henry Irving, which are not quite so particular. In size of flower and stem, and in vigorous habit the 
newer King Alfred surpasses Maximus, and it is very like the latter in form and colour ; it is in good 
condition at Surbiton, but an unnamed seedling now flowering promises to run King Alfred closely, and 
in form of perianth it already surpasses it. 
“The beds of seedlings are very interesting, but one hesitates to describe a flower under its stock book 
number. One or two Leedsii varieties are especially good, and one variety of the Barrii type looks capable 
of ousting the famous Conspicuus in the course of a few years, because it has finer form and substance, 
and lacks nothing in colour. A bold trumpet variety of the Monarch type arrests attention, and another 
golden Ajax variety with a broad and exquisitely frilled trumpet promises well. But seedlings are not 
all up to fifty-guinea standards, and they who commence to raise seedling daffodils must be prepared for 
many disappointments ; indeed, it is only when thousands are raised that one comprehends how ugly a 
daffodil may be, and how small is the percentage of good things. 
“ Returning to the stocks of the finer varieties, interest soon centres in such big blooms as those of 
Monarch, Admiral Makaroff, Weardale Perfection, Glory of Leiden, C. H. Curtis, 
Cygnet, Lord Roberts, etc., these all having large bold trumpets. Of more graceful form arc White 
Queen, a lovely white variety j Strongbow, one of the best of the Kelsoni group ; Torch, a showy 
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