BARR & SONS, 11 , 12 & 13 King Street, Oovent Garden, London. 77 
Barr’s Famous Tulips. 
Awarded Eight Gold Medals by the Royal National Tulip Society, 
Silver Cup at the ,Royal International Horticultural Exhibition 1912, 
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, 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. The 
large breadths of Tulips in bloom at our Nurseries in Spring are a sight worth seeing, 
and attract a great many visitors. At the Kinemacolor Theatre, London, views of our Tulip 
fields at Taplow, and also individual flowers, in natural colours, have recently been one of the 
features of the programme. See Illustration on back cover. 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS FOR FORCING. 
^ For full descriptions see General List of Early Single Tulips, pages 79 to 81. 
When forced the colours generally come softer. 
The following varieties of Early Single Tulips are the most suitable for forcing. As failure in 
forcing Tulips and other bulbs is generally due to bringing the pots into warmth too early or before 
the bulbs have rooted sufficiently, we have given on page 2 a few practical hints on general treat- 
ment which if followed will produce satisfactory results. We indicate by numbers in brackets the varieties 
most suitable for earliest and later forcing. 
(1) Varieties which should be used for earliest forcing to come in at Christmas and early January. 
(2) Varieties for second-early forcing to come in from end of January to early March. 
(3) Varieties for later forcing to come in from middle of March to early April. 
per 100 per doz. 
s. d. s. d 
Belle Alliance (2, 3) 10 6...1 6 
Cochineal (i) 10 6...1 6 
Couleur Cardinal (3) 12 6...1 9 
Due de Berlin (i) 10 6...1 6 
Due Van Thol, scarlet 
edged yellow (i) s 6...0 10 
,, scarlet (I) 7 6...i 3 
„ yellow (i) 9 4 
„ rosy blush (i) 7 6-- i 3 
,, orange (l), orange and red 
striped 7 6 - > 3 
,, white (i) 6 i o 
,, purple-cerise edged 
white (i) 5 6---0 to 
The '■'Due van Thol'’ Tulips are 
prized for their dainty little flowers, 
but are only suitable for pots. 
Duchesse de Parma (2, 3) 
per 1000, 50/- 5 6...0 10 
Etheldreda (2, 3) 21 0...3 o 
Flamingo (2) 21 0...3 o 
Golden Queen (2) 15 0...2 3 
Joost van Vondel (2, 3) 9 6 4 
„ ,, white (2, 3) 15 0...2 3 
Keizerskroon (3) 7 6...i 3 
per 100 per doz. 
s. d. S. d 
King of Yellows (2, 3) 8 6...1 3 
La Reine (Queen Victoria) (2) 
per 1000, 40/- 4 6...0 8 
La Riante (i, 2) 12 6...1 g 
Le Reve (2, 3) 25 0...3 6 
Montresor (i) 7 6...1 3 
Pottebakker white (t, 2, 3)... 9 6...1 4 
,, yellow(3) 12 6... I 9 
Primrose Queen (2) 10 6...1 6 
Prince de Ligne (i, 2, 3) ... 5 6...0 to 
Prince of Austria (2, 3) 8 6...1 3 
Princess Helene (2) 9 6...1 4 
Proserpine (i) >5 ° 3 
Queen of the Nether- 
lands (i) 10 6... I 6 
Rosamund! (2) 5 6...0 10 
Rose Grisdelin (2, 3) 5 6...0 10 
Rose Luisante (3) 12 6...1 9 
Thomas Moore Improved 
(i) per 1000, 60/- 6 6... I o 
Vermilion Brilliant (i, 2, 3) 12 6...1 9 
White Falcon (3) 10 6...1 6 
Yellow Prince (2, 3) 
per 1000, 50/- 5 6...0 10 
Barr's Peat-Fibre, Shell and Charcoal Mixture, for growing bulbs in Vases, Bowls, Jardinets, 
etc., 3J. 6d. per bushel ; is. per peck. For Collection of Bulbs suitable 
for Bowl culture, see page 16. Directions for culture, page 3. 
Illustrated List of Bowls and Vases on application. 
