Barr’s 
“Gold Medal” Daffodils. 
in.i daffodils have been awarded the highest prizes during the Spring of 1903, 
and AwL? f’M First-Class Certificates 
and Awards of Merit for individual varieties. 
PRESS NOTICES OF BARR^S DAFFODItS, 
Extract from “The Times,” April 20th, 1903. 
“A SURREY DAFFODIL GARDEN. 
B-irr'T"sonl' Vr'’*' Daffodils al Messrs, 
.rr & Sons Dilton Hill Grounds. The primrose-doltcd banks of the railway approaching Surbiton 
introduce the visitor to the rich green country a little beyond the town, where a Surrey Tane leads to a large 
Lw'er Inri^h , \ '“''P"’ flame-coloured and purple, newly Leaking into 
flower, and-by patches of the sweet-scented and lovely grape hyacinth Muscari Heavenly Blue, the whole having 
a background of green meadows and grand elms. Taking them in the mass, the flowers makea charming picture 
and an inspection of them will repay anybody who cares to lake the short railway journey from wLrloo' 
foecia^ l7 r A i'''"' "'i“ l><= in a closer examination of some of the numerous 
spec al beds. As many as three hundred named varieties arc under cultivation, besides which some fine 
TaS pydaLh O"" ."f ‘hesc is a noble white flower with a superb trumpet and a 
graceful perianth. Then among the named varieties is a flower of delicate beauty called Madame de Graaff 
with Its pure white perianth and large pale primrose trumpet passing off white. The parent flower. Empress -a 
o rLmnLLr'''^ a ''' =* h=‘'>dsome bloom, and with it may be mentioned tL grand 
But Madame de Graaff has a serious competitor in a magnificent daffodil calletl Peter Barr, which is longer in 
the crown and has less curl at the rim of the white trumpet. Queen of Spain, which was found by Mr ifarr in 
Spam, also takes a prominent place for grace and delicacy of colouring. It is rightly called the aucon of 
trumpet daffodils ; the soft, yellow flowers droop slightly, anL just rise above the blue-green foliage 7nd the 
tiumpet IS slightly expanded. A rare and pretty specimen is the fragrant Odorus heminalls, the sinLle form of 
Odorus plenus, a rich yellow bloom with a handsome cup. Barrii Consplcuus, perhaps the best L7he chahee 
‘he rock-garden, like the White Hoop Petticoat 
(Co,b,da,m monophylla) and Narcissus cyclamlneus ; the pretty little Angel's Tears ITnanlus albus\- 
rcfld:^:;: of tHeNardsL, and ma./y oTh^SLldte^!; 
Extract from “The Westminster Gazette,” April 17th, 1903. 
“A SURREY OPEN-AIR FLOWER SHOW. 
Just in time to give their glamour to the Easter holid.ays, and to attract lovers of flowers who are not 
afrmd of braving the bitter winter winds, a million daffodils and more have opened at the Long Ditton Nurseries 
of Messrs. Barr & Sons, and will be at their best for another fortnight at least. They are a very beautiful sight 
these acres upon acres of stars in every imaginable tint of clear yellow, twinkling above and among the soft 
green of their foliage. They are for ever on the move, swaying gracefully to and fro on their long sfcnis and 
^ ‘heir motion of the wavelets of the sea on a calm summer day. To the uninitiated there'docs 
not appear to Ik much difference between the varieties of daffodils at Long Ditton, though even the most 
unobservant must notice the difference between the magnificent Duke of Bedford, which measures four and a half 
niches across, the glorious Gloria Mundl, with its clear rich yellow perianth and large expanded cup on the one 
hand and the tmy .tagel'e Tears and Hoop Petticoat daffodil on the other hand. And, howeLr little you 
may know of daffodils in general, you will note that among all the daffodils bought of florist or street-vendor 
gorgeously rich in colour, so perfect in shape, so gigantic in size as for instance the 
Gloria Mtmdi, King ^fred, Lucifer, Madame de Graaff, Weardale Perfection, and last,' but by no m'eans 
iLblLnL^Lng varieties now 
has ,'t,“r* “’7® “vinkling stars a great patch of deep blue tells where the dainty grape hyacinth 
has Its quarters and ever and again a bed of tulips, flashing in all the colours of precious stones inlerruptsThe 
^ are welconmd at Messrs. Barr's Nurseries at any time, and we advise those of our rLders 
who would see a piece of the fairyland of spring not to miss the opportunity of walking through it since it 
can be reached by half an hour's railway journey from Waterloo.’' ' 
