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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. Awarded 
on May 20th, 1908, the Royal Botanic Society’s Gold Medal. 
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. 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 finches 
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 Van 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 are not all the same 
height, and that some arc earlier in flower than others. For 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. 
Soil and Time of Planting. — 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. The bulbs should be planted with their tops 4 in. deep. 
Arrangement of Colours in Bedding. — The following varieties if bedded together produce charming 
effects: Princess Marianne, Ophir d'Or and iVouverman ; Pottcbakkcr White and Chryso/ora ; Prince oj 
Austria, President Lincoln and Chryso/ora; Pose Crisdelin and Princess Marianne; Pottebakker Yellow 
and Thomas Moore; Chryso/ora and Dusart ; Princess Ida and Posamundi; Duchesse de Parma and 
Fabiola ; Posamundi and Pose Superbe ; Couleur Cardinal makes a grand show bedded by itself, but 
Snowdrift 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 (1), (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 
difference in time of flowering between each number is not great, so that (1) and (2) may be bedded together, 
also (2) and (3), and so on. The varieties of Due Yan Thol are not numbered, as they flower before any 
of the others. 
Varieties Suitable for Forcing.— The following varieties only should be used for 
this purpose : 
(1) To bloom at Christmas and early January.— Due Van 7 hoi varieties, Mon Trisor, Pottebakker 
White, Proserpine, and Vermilion Brilliant. 
(2) To bloom from end of January to early March.— Duchesse de Parma, Joost Van Vondel, La 
Belle Alliance, Pottebakker White, L’rimrose Queen, Prince of Austria, Queen Victoria ( La Peine), Pose 
Crisdelin, Thomas Moore, Vermilion Brilliant, and Yellow Prince. 
(3) For later forcing, to come in from middle of March to early April. — Couleur Cardinal, Duchesse 
de Parma, Joost Van Vondel, Keizerskroon, La Belle Alliance, Pottebakkei White, Pottebakker Yellow, Prince 
of Austria, Prince de Ligne, Posamundi, Pose Crisdelin, Pose Luisante, Pose Superbe, Vermilion Brilliant, 
White Swan, and White Hawk. 
iU" For general directions for treatment of bulbs in pots, see page 1. 
