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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1912 . 
Barr’s Famous Tulips. 
AWARDED 
Seven Gold Medals by the Royal National Tulip Society, and many other 
High Awards at the London Spring Flower Shows. 
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. 15 y 
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. The 
large breadths of Tulips in bloom at our Nurseries in Spring are a sight worth seeing, 
and attract a great many visitors. At the Kinemacolor Theatre, London, views of our Tulip 
fields at Taplow, and also individual flowers, in natural colours, have recently been one of the 
features of the programme. See Illustration on back cover. 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS FOR FORCING. 
le* For full descriptions see General List of Early Single Tulips, pages 75 to 77. 
When forced the colours generally come softer. 
The following varieties of Early Single Tulips are the most suitable for forcing. As failure in 
forcing Tulips and other bulbs is generally due to bringing the pots into warmth too early or before 
the bulbs have rooted sufficiently, we have given on page 2 a few practical hints on general treat- 
ment which if followed will produce satisfactory results. 
( 1) Indicates those varieties which should be used for earliest forcing to come in at Christmas and early 
January. 
(2) Varieties for second-early forcing to come in from end of January to early March. 
(3) Varieties for later forcing to come in from middle of March to early April. 
per 100 per doz 
s. d. s. d 
Belle Alliance (2, 3) 10 6...1 6 
Couleur Cardinal (3) 12 6...1 9 
Due de Berlin (i) 10 6...1 6 
Due Van Thol, scarlet 
edged yellow (i) 5 6 ..o 10 
„ scarlet (1) 7 6 --i 3 
„ yellow (i) 9 6... I 4 
„ rosy k>lush (i) '.. 8 6...1 3 
,, orange (i), orange and red 
striped 7 6... I 3 
,, white (i) 6 6... I o 
„ purple • cerise edged 
white (i) 5 6...0 10 
The "Due van I hoi" Tulips are 
jirized for their dainty little flowers, 
but are only suitable for pots. 
Duchesse de Parma (2, 3) 
per 1000, 55/- 6 o ..o 10 
Etheldreda (2, 3) 25 0...3 6 
Flamingo (2) 25 0...3 6 
Golden Queen (2) 15 0..2 3 
Joost van Vondel (2, 3) 7 6...1 3 
» white (2, 3) 12 6...1 9 
Keizerskroon (3) 6 6...1 o 
per TOO per doz. 
5. 4 - J- d 
King of Yellows (2, 3) 8 6...1 3 
La Reine (Queen Victoria) (2) 
per 1000, 4c/- 4 6...0 8 
La Riante (i, 2) 10 6...1 6 
Le Reve (2, 3) 27 6...3 9 
Montresor (i) 7 6...1 3 
Pottebakker white (i, 2, 3)... 7 6..1 3 
„ yellow (3) 12 6... I 9 
Primrose Queen (2) 10 6...1 6 
Prince de Ligne (i, 2, 3) ... 5 6...0 10 
Prince of Austria (2, 3) 8 6...1 3 
Princess Helene (2) 12 6...1 9 
Proserpine (i) 15 0...2 3 
Rosamundi (2) 5 6...0 10 
Rose Grisdelin (2, 3) 5 6..,o to 
Rose Luisante (3) 12 6...1 9 
Rose Precieuse (2, 3) 35 0...5 o 
Thomas Moore Improved 
(i) per 1000, 50/- 6 0...0 10 
Vermilion Brilliant (i, 2, 3) 10 6...1 6 
White Falcon (3) 9 6...1 4 
Yellow Prince (2, 3) 
per 1000, 50/- S 6...0 10 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS FOR BEDDING. 
1^' Full descriptions will be found in our General List of Early Single Tulips. 
Culture Outdoors. — Any ordinai’y garden soil enriched with old stable manure, with a sprinkling 
of quicklime dug in while fresh, suits the Tulip. Planting out of doors should take place from October to 
November^ not earlier. On light soils the bulbs should be planted 4 to 5 inches deep ; on heavy soils 3 to 
4 inches deep. Early Single Tulips should not be planted two years running on the same piece of ground. 
* Arrangement of Colours in Bedding.— The following varieties if bedded together produce charming 
efTects : Princess MaHamie^ Ophir d'Or and Wouverman ; Pottebakker White and Chryiolora ; Pj'tnce oj 
Austria, President Lincoln zxvi\ Chrysolora ; Pose Grisdelin and Princess Mai'ianne ; Pottebakker Yellow 
and Thomas Moore 1 m braved ; Chrysolora and Dusart ; Princess Ida and Rosamundi; D.ich'sse dc 
