BARR & SONS, 11, 12 & 13 King Street, Covent Garden, London. 79 
BARR’S DOUBLE TULIPS. Bulbs of Extra Quality. 
Plant from October to November. 
Double Tulips have massive flowers of brilliant and beautifully diversified colours, and are very 
effective in beds on lawns, terraces, etc., also as edgings to beds of Roses and Rhododendrons and to shrub- 
beries. Planted in groups of five or more, they are very attractive. Plant the bulbs four inches deep and 
four to six inches apart. 
Time of Flowering. — The numbers in brackets after the name indicate the order of flowering, and 
will assist amateurs in making their selections for bedding, thus: — (x ) corresponds in time of flowering 
with (x) of the Single Tulips; (2) corresponds with (2) of the Single Tulips, and so on. The heights, 
as registered at our Nurseries, are given in inches. By a judicious selection of Double and Single Tulips, 
a display of brilliant colours may be maintained in the garden for a long period. 
Double Tulips should be planted three bulbs in a pot, and receive the cultural treatment recommended 
on page I. 
DOUBLE TULIPS SUITABLE FOR FORCING. 
To force for earliest decoration, say January, Salvator Rosa may be used ; the other varieties do not 
force successfully so early. 
For decoration from the end of January to early March we can recommend the following sorts : — 
Couronne d’ Or, El Toreador , Imperator Rubrorum, Lady Palmerston , Murillo , Princess Beatrice , Tournesol , 
Tournesol Yellow , and Titian. 
For late forcing, to produce blooms from end of March to early April the following kinds should 
be grown : — Couronne id Or, Imperator Rubrorum, La Candeur, Le Matador, Murillo, Tournesol, and 
Tournesol Yellow. 
Barr’s Selections of Double Tulips for Outdoor or Pot-Culture. 
10 each 12 splendid varieties 12 
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3 each 12 splendid varieties 4 6 
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Barr’s Beautiful “Rainbow” Mixture of Double Tulips.— A Special Mixture 
of beautiful and bright colours made up by ourselves from fine named varieties, and will be 
found far superior to the ordinary Dutch mixtures for the brilliant effect they produce in beds 
and borders; they last long in beauty, and form a valuable succession to the Early Single Tulips, 
per 1000, 65/- ; per 100, 7/- ; per doz. 1/- 
Fine mixed Double Tulips, containing a good variety of colour, 
per 1000, 50/- ; per 100, 5/6 ; per doz loaf. 
Double Due Van Thol, very early, useful dwarf tulip for edgings and early forcing. 
red margined yellow, per 100, 4/6 ; per doz. 8 d. 
After extensive trials of Double Tulips at our Surbiton Nurseries, we have selected out 
the following as being the best for garden decoration and pot-culture. Any other varieties, 
however, which are in commerce we can supply if wanted. 
per 100 per doz. 
Arabella (3), lovely cherry-rose e. d. s. d 
with salmon glow on inner petals, 
ht. 1 1 in 10 6. ,.i 6 
Blue Flag (syn. Bleu Celeste) (6), 
large flowers, soft mauve-purple, 
handsome, ht. 21 in., fine for late 
forcing 7 6...1 3 
Carmen Sylva (5), very pretty 
rose, slightly flaked white, a beauti- 
ful globular flower, ht. 1 1 in 7 6... 1 3 
Couronne de Cerise (3), rich 
deep ruby-crimson, elegantly formed 
flower, very beautiful, ht. 12 in. ... 8 6. ..I 3 
Couronne d’Or (2), yellow 
flushed orange, large handsome 
flower, a grand bedder, ht. 13 in.... 12 6...X 9 
Couronne des Roses (3), 
beautiful rich brilliant rose 17 6. ..2 6 
Duke of York (5), large flower, 
brilliant cherry-crimson, broadly 
margined pure white, showy, 12 in. 4 6...0 8 
El Toreador (2), large bright scar- 
let, broadly margined buff-yellow, 
ht. I2in. AwardofMkrit R.H.S. 32 6. ..4 6 
per 100 per doz 
Empress (syn. Turban Violet) *■ d. s. d 
(3), large handsome flowers, rosy 
purple with yellow centre, very 
showy, ht. 12 in 12 6...1 9 
Gladstone (2), fine glowing deep 
cherry-scarlet, ht. 10 in 2X 0...3 o 
Gloria Solis (1), scarlet, deeply 
edged with bright yellow, showy 
and early, ht. 12 in 7 6 ... I 3 
Golden King (2), a grand large 
flower, pure rich yellow, ht. 14 in. 
very scarce each 2/6 — ... — 
Henry Witte (3), large rich 
orange-scarlet, deeply bordered 
golden-yellow, full-double, ht. 11 in. 15 0...2 3 
Imperator Rubrorum (2), 
rich glowing scarlet, beautiful, 12 in. 15 0...2 3 
La Candeur (4), pure white, good 
bedder, ht. 11 in 7 6...1 3 
La Citadelle (4). rich deep 
orange-scarlet, margined gold, very 
showy, ht. 13 in 7 6--.J 3 
La Coquette (2), semi-double, 
flower large, golden-yellow flushed 
orange, ht. 12 in 12 6...X 9 
