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TROP^EOLUM— continued. each— s. it 
x speciosum, bright vermilion-scarlet flowers 
in clusters, quite hardy ; grow in northern 
aspect or shady portion, and in a moist soil. 
Orders booked for delivery in Spring, when 
the plants are starting into growth ...Established 
pots, full of roots, per doz. 7/6 & 10/6 ; gd., is. & 1 6 
* tuberosum, flowers yellow and red, very 
showy ; plant in Spring and lift in Autumn ; 
the roots are eaten by the natives of Peru, and 
have been found, in this country, to form an 
agreeable dish when boiled per doz. 3/6 o 4 
x TUBEROSE. This valuable sweet-scented flower 
is too well known to need description. For 
early flowering pot the bulbs as soon as re- 
ceived, 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, “Ex- 
celsior Pearl,” the finest strain, having 
large pure while double flowers of delicious 
fragrance . . . Orders booked for supply from 
January to May ...per iod, 12/6; per doz. 1/9 o 2 
BARR’S FAMOUS TULIPS. 
Awarded Five Geld Medals by the Royal National Tulip Society, and 
many Silver Medals and Prizes 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 tile 
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. 
BARR’S EARLY SINGLE TULIPS. 
Plant from October to November. 
Those alone who have massed the different varieties of Single Tulips (planting the built 4 inches 
apart) can form an idea of their great beauty and rich diversity in shade and colour, and the grand eflect 
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 are earlier in flower than others. For the assistance, therefore, of purchasers we 
have taken special observations at our Nurseries as to Ibe heights and the order in which the Early Single 
and Double Tulips flower. 
The Heights we give in inches, and 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 Van Thol are not numbered, as they 
flower before any of the others. 
Arrangement of Colours in Bedding.— The following varieties if bedded together produce charming 
effects : Princess Marianne, Ophir d'Or and Wouvermah ; Pottebakker Whitt and Chrysotora ; Prince 0) 
EXCELSIOR PEARL ” TUBEROSE. 
