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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1912. 
PARROT OR DRAGON TULIPS— per doz.-s. d 
Large Yellow, pure yellow, slightly striped crimson and green, a showy and beautiful llower 
per too, 7/6 i 3 
MarkgraaT Van Baden (true), golden inside, outside shaded and feathered brilliant scarlet, 
purple aitd green ; remarkably handsome and the most gorgeously coloured of all I’arrot Tulips, 
per 100, 7/6 I 3 
Perfecta, golden-yellow, heavily blotched rich deep scarlet, a showy and beautiful flower 
per too, 7/6 I 3 
Sensation, a great novelty. See Novelty List, page 15. 
Barr’s Splendid Mixed, from named sorts, containing a good variety of colours 
Strong bulbs, per 1000, 60/- ; per 100, 6/6 I o 
BARR’S 
Beautiful “Cottag:e” Tulips and Tulip Species. 
All Single and mostly May-Flowering. 
Awarded the National Tulip Society’s Gold Medal (First Prize) at the Temple Gardens 
Show, May 24 th, 1911 . 
The name Cottage Tulips we have given to the various beautiful M.iy-flowering Tulips which 
have mostly been found growing in old cottage gardens in England, Scotland, and Ireland, where they 
have been in some cases for over fifty years. Some have also been traced to old French gardens. They 
are all very beautiful, presenting a great variety in form and colouring, and having none of the stiffness 
of other Tulips. For cutting they are greatly prized on account of their long stems and gr.aceful habit. 
Being extremely hardy they are specially adapted for permanent hardy flower borders, where they should 
be freely planted in large clumps and masses. They may also be naturalised in grass, wild gardens, 
etc., where during May they present a charming picture. Those who have visited Kew Gardens in 
Spring will have noticed these Tulips planted freely in grass, and also used largely in filling fiower beds 
on the lawns. 
Culture. — The bulbs should be planted 5 to 6 inches deep on heavy soils, and 6 to 7 inches deep on 
light soils. If planted too shallow they are apt to come blind. 
In most cases we give the heights as registered at our Nurseries, but these will vary somewhat 
according to richness or poverty of soil. 
Time of Flowering. — The Cottage Tulips take up the succession of flowering as the Early Singl 
and Double Tulips are going out of bloom. As far as possible we have indicated the order of flowering 
by (i), (2), and so on. (l) will correspond in time of flowering with (S) of the Early Single and Double 
Tulips. The Parrot Tulips bloom together with those marked (2), and the Darwin with those marked (3) 
and (4) in the following lists. 
Those Tulips marked <I> are species, and gems for sunny sheltered nooks in the rock garden, where 
their lovely flowers will delight the eyes of all who see them. They should be planted 3 to 6 inches 
deep in light sandy well-drained soil. 
BARR’S SELECTIONS OF CHOICE NAMED COTTAGE TULIPS. 
3 each of 50 beautiful varieties ... 45/- & 54/- I 3 each of 25 beautiful varieties 22/6 
3 » 30 ,, „ ... 28/- & 33/- I 3 „ 23 ,, „ 14/- 
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3 each of 12 beautiful varieties 9/6 13/6, & 19/- 
3 „ 12 „ „ 6/- 8/6, & 12/- 
Abdul Aziz, very long flowers heavily flamed dark scarlet on a salmon-red ground, or 
sometimes breaking into a pretty yellow variegation, ht. 16 in per too, 5/6 
Acuminata, (jyn. cornuta) (2) the Ragged-petalled Tulip, having yellow and red 
streaked fantastic thread-like petals, ht. 17 m per too, 6/6 
Albiflora (i), flower white with eleg.antly recurved petals, very pretty, ht. 18 in 
Alida (l), flower white, with pale pink flush at base of petals, centre stained primrose, 
pretty, ht. 13 in 
Amber Crown (1), flowers large, having the three outer pct.als recurving, colour 
delicate amber shaded outside apricot, very beautiful, ht. 21 in per too, 15/- 
Aspasia (3), flamed and tinted scarlet and gold, of stiff erect habit, handsome, ht. 21 in. 
per too, 21/- 
Austraiis {syn. Celsiana), yellow, outside bronze, ht. 16 in 
Aximensis (3), a pretty Savoy Tulip bearing carmine-red flowers with black b.ase, 
ht. 22 in per too, 5/6 
Beauty (6), flowers rich golden-yellow, lightly flamed red at margin, anthers black, very 
showy, ht. 20 in per too, 7/6 
Biflora major, a little Caucasian species bearing lovely small cream-coloured flowers, 
on branching stems early in March, ht. 8 in. Scarce 
Billietiana (3), pointed flowers, yellow, strikingly margined at base rosy scarlet, 
showy, 19 in per too, 6,6 
Black Chief (4), large well-formed flowers of a glossy maroon-black, handsome, ht. 
24 in per too, 21/- 
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1 O... — 
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3 6...0 4 
2 3...0 3 
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