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TROP/EOLUM, all beautiful climbers. Azureum and Jarrattii are recommended for the each 
greenhouse to trail over trellises, round pillars, etc. Polyphyllum and its variety Leichtlini 
revel on dry sunny slopes and sunny spots on rockwork and border. Tuberosum requires an 
open sunny situation and poor soil, and should have branches to scramble over. Spcciosum 
may be successfully grown anywhere if planted in a cool, moist situation, where the sun 
does not strike at the roots. In hot dry districts it has also been grown successfully, 
planted close against the north side of evergreen hedges. 
Stzureum, a rare bulb, flowers rich violet-blue, with white centre, very lovely i 6 
Jarrattii, flowers scarlet, orange, and black, an exceedingly showy species per doz. 5/6 o 6 
poiyphyllum, golden-yellow flowers in long trusse.s, quite hardy „ 6/6 o 7 
,, Leichtlini, flowers of a rich brilliant orange-gold, very showy and 
beautiful. Award of Merit, 1901 per doz. 10/6 i 0 
xspeciosum, bright vermilion-scarlet flowers in clusters, quite hardy; grow in northern 
aspect or shady position, and in a moist soil. Orders booked for delivery in March, when 
the plants are just starting into growth 
Eitablished pots, full of roots, per doz. 10/6 & 15/- ; each l/- & i 6 
X tuberosum, flowers yellow and red, very showy; plant in Spring and lift in Autumn. 
The dried tubers are eaten by the natives of Peru, and in Bolivia they are boiled and 
then frozen, being much esteemed as a delicacy per doz. 2/6 o 3 
X TUBEROSE. This valuable sweet-scented flower is too well known to need description. 
For early flowering pot the bulbs as soon as received, and plunge the pots in a temperature 
of about 60 degrees. The bulbs for succession keep dry, or pot at once to make root 
growth ; in either case the temperature should not be below 50 degrees, or the bulbs will suffer. 
Double American Dwarf, “Excelsior Pearl,” the finest strain, having 
large pure white double flowers of delicious fragrance. Orders booked for supply from 
fanuary to May. Extra strong bulbs (6 to 7 in. in circumference), per 100, 15/- ; per doz. 2/3 o 3 
Barr’s Famous Tulips. 
AWARDED 
Six 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, 
arid developing their handsome showy flowers even in a confined town garden. By 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. Our large breadths of Tulips at the Surbiton Nurseries in Spring 
create much comment, and elicit the greatest admiration from all who see them. See Illustration on 
back cover. 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS. 
Bulbs of Extra Quality. 
Those alone who have massed the different varieties of Single Tulips {planting the bulbs 4 inches 
apart) can form an idea of their great beauty and rich diversity in shade and colour, and the grand effect 
they produce grouped in flower beds or borders. The Single Tulip is extensively grown for indoor 
decoration (three or five bulbs in a pot) and cultivated in the same way as the Hyacinth for early 
flowering and succession. 
The varieties of the little early Due Yan Thol Tulips (with exception of the scarlet, edged yellow 
variety, which flowers first) bloom together, and are of the same height, which renders them valuable for 
beds and borders, where a very early Spring display is required, also for early forcing with the Roman 
Hyacinth, etc. 
Hints as to the arrangement of Early Tulips in beds, etc.— A difficulty is often experienced by 
Amateurs in knowing what kind of Tulips to select to bed together, seeing that they arc not all the same 
height, and that some are earlier in flower than others, h’or the assistance, therefore, of purchasers we 
have taken special observations at our Nurseries as to the heights and the order in which the Early Single 
and Double Tulips flower. 
Culture Outdoors. — Any ordinary 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 $ inches deep ; on heavy soils 
3 to 4 inches deep. 
Arrangement of Colours in Bedding. —The following varieties if bedded together produce charming 
effects: Princess Marianne, Ophir d'Or and IVouverman ; Pottebakker White and Chrysolora ; Prince of 
Austria, President Lincoln Chrysolora; Pose Grisdelin and Princess Marianne; Pottebakker Yellow 
and Thomas Moore; Chrysolora and Dusart ; Princess Ida and Rosamundi ; Duchesse de Parma and 
Fabiola ; Rosamundi and Stanley ; Couleur Cardinal makes a grand show bedded by itself, but Snow- 
drift goes well with it ; Keizerskroon makes a fine bed with Queen Victoria as an outside border. Golden 
Queen is a grand bedder. 
Time of Flowering.— The order of flowering is indicated by (i), (2), (3), (4), or (5) after the name. 
It will be noticed that the Double Tulips generally are a little later-flowering than the Singles. The 
