telegrams: barr, London.” 
telephone: 2991 central. 
Spring 1909. 
Barr’s 
“Gold Medal” Daffodils. 
We are again this season fortunate enough to be able to introduce some really 
fine New Seedling Daffodils, several of which have been exhibited by us at the 
Spring Flower Shows, where they have attracted a great deal of attention. 
Five Gold Medals awarded 1908. 
Our fine displays of New Seedling and other Daffodils have gained the Gold 
Medals this season at the Spring Shows of the Midland Daffodil Society, 
Birmingham; Royal Botanic Society, London; Royal Caledonian Society, 
Edinburgh ; Shropshire Horticultural Society, Shrewsbury; and Breconshire 
Horticultural Society, Brecon. At the Spring Show of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, London, April 28th, our exhibit gained the a highest award, 
Silver-Gilt Floral Medal. 
PRESS NOTICES. 
DAFFODILS AT SURBITON. 
Extract from “The Gardener’s Chronicle,” May 23rd, 1908. 
“It lias been our pleasure for several years to visit the nurseries of Messrs. Barr & Sons, at Surbiton, 
to see the Daffodils in flower, but we have never until this season received the invitation so late as in May. 
The flowers have bloomed abnormally late, and small wonder, when one remembers the arctic weather 
that has characterised the spring of 190S. Not only did the cold retard the flowering of the bulbs, but the 
heavy rains of April caught them when in bloom, and then, when a few warm days did appear, the flowers 
were quickly over. Thus, in a measure, we were disappointed, but these flowers are cultivated on such 
a large scale at Surbiton that there still remained abundant material of interest, and it was an easy task to 
find some late flowers of the majority of the varieties. In addition, a late duplicate planting of all the best 
early kinds is practised by Messrs. Barr in order to furnish material for hybridising with later-blooming 
sorts. The weather on the occasion of our visit was glorious, and in addition to the Daffodils, the great, 
breadths of May-flowering Tulips, with Irises of the Pumila type, Polyanthuses, Ranunculuses, and a 
host of other hardy spring flowers, made a beautiful picture. The principal entrance to the fields of 
Daffodils is through a small rock-garden, to which we have often referred in former notes, but we have 
never before seen it so prettily furnished with flowers. . . 
“ Of varieties of Daffodils it may be said that their number is almost endless, and Messrs. Barr's 
latest list enumerates nearly 400 distinct sorts, which, of course, does not represent all the varieties in 
commerce, although most of the best varieties are included in it. The first of which we have note is the 
variety named Evelyn Hodge. It was raised from N. montanus x N. biflorus, and possesses a white 
perianth set off with a small, pale-coloured corona. 
“ Merry Maid was raised at Surbiton in 1907. This is a tall, late-flowering Narcissus of the Barrii 
section, with a pure while perianth, tapering in its segments, and crowned by a corona that is yellow and 
tipped with orange. Bianca is a Leedsii Daffodil that has its white perianth set off with a lemon- 
coloured cup, the latter being prettily fluted. Agnes Harvey is a variety of rather delicate growth ; 
this is another of the Leedsii section. It olten develops two or more blooms on a scape, and is to be 
recommended for its charming form. Egret has the large, flattened corona of the Engleheartii section, 
to which it belongs, and beneath its crown the broad, white segments form a perianth of the finest type. 
“ Amongst the best of recently-raised trumpet Daffodils is C. H. Curtis. This is a bold flower, 
having a handsome corona that recurves somewhat at the mouth. The perianth is a deep shade of yellow, 
but not so intense as the golden cup. Another flower of the C. II. Curtis type is George Philip 
Haydon. The mouth of the trumpet also expands in this variety, and it is finely fluted, but the colouring 
in both perianth and cup is paler than in the flower named after C. II. Curtis, and its appearance is 
stiffer. Knight Errant is also a trumpet Daffodil, but with white perianth and sulphur-coloured 
trumpet. Its parents were probably Mad. Plemp and Cernuus. A beautiful white Daffodil is seen in 
Eileen Mitchell, and, as one of its parents was N. triandrus, the character of producing more than one 
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