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BARR’S GOLD MEDAL DAFFODILS, 1919. 
Barr^s New Seedling Daffodils 
Including Many New Varieties for 1919 
The following list of Daffodils comprises some of the finest novelties, and includes New 
Seedlings of onr own raising and many of the best raised by other hybridists. We would 
specially draw attention to the following grand exhibition kinds : Anchorite, Caedmon, 
Challenger, Danesfield. Empire, Golden Chief, Lemon Frill, Masterpiece, 
Milk and Honey, Mrs, D. V. West, Primrose Gem, Prince Fushimi, Prince 
Arthur, R.ed Beacon, Bingdove, Sheba, St, Olaf, St. Wendrona, Socrates, 
Tamora, Volcano, and White Pearl — all of great beauty. 
We have been awarded for New Seedling Daffodils — 
The Engleheart Challenge Cup by the Royal Horticultural Society as 
First Prize for Twelve Best Seedling Daffodils not in commerce. 
The Walter Ware Challenge Cup for the Best New Triandrus Hybrids. 
The R.H.S. Silver Standard Cup for the Best 12 New Seedling Daffodils. 
The relative qualities as we judge them are indicated by XX, xxx, xxxx, the highest quality 
flower being given the most marks. The figures after the names indicate the relative period of 
flowering, (1) being earliest, (6) being latest. 
Alope (Triandrus Hybrid) (4) xxx, »ew 1919, flower large with primrose-yellow perianth 
and bold canary-coloured trumpet, ht. 13 in 
Anchorite (Barrii) (5), xxxx, new 1914, a good solid flower, having broad long snowy 
white perianth of great substance and large spreading crown of a delicate lemon-yellow, 
prettily frilled at margin and having a dark green eye, a very cool-looking chaste flower, 
ht. 19 in. Award of Merit R.II.S. 1918 
Caedmon (Poeticus) (4), xxxx, new 1914, a most striking and beautiful Poet Narcissus, 
flower very large with broad snowy white perianth of great substance, and a very bold 
centre broadly rimmed dark red and having a rich green eye. Awarded First-Class 
Certificate R.H.S. April 21st, 1915, as a show flower, also an Award of Merit 
Midland Daffodil Society 191S, and First-Class Certificate North of Eng- 
land Hort. Society 1915 
Challenger (Barrii) (5I, xxxx, new I9<0, a magnificent flower measuring more than 3 in. 
across, of fine form, solid Poeticus-white perianth and much expanded crown measuring 
about I inch across, soft canary with a striking broad margin of brilliant fiery red 
(Leedsii) (4), xxxx, a very beautiful smallish flower, perianth white and cam- 
panulate, crown straight, prettily fluted, colour pale brick-rose deepening at margin to 
delicate orange apricot. Award of Merit Birmingham 
Crcesus (Giant Incomparabilis), xxxx, a very fine flower of great substance with large 
rounded and imbricated pale primrose perianth and a wide expanded crown of deep red. 
Award of Merit Birmingham, 1911. First-Class Certificate R.H.S. 1912 
Danesfield (Trumpet Daffodil) (4)', xxxx, new 1919, an immense flower with broad 
white imbricated perianth and a bold canary-coloured trumpet, expanded and frilled at 
mouth ; one of the largest of Bicolor Trumpet Daffodils and a very robust grower, ht. 17 in. 
Empire (Giant Leedsii) (3), xxxx, n'ew 1911, one of the finest of this class, and a very 
noble and beautiful flower of highest type ; perianth white, very large, broad, and im- 
bricated, crown very laige, lemon shading to white, slightly expanded at mouth, and 
exquisitely frilled, foliage broad and blue-grey, ht. 16 in. Awarded First-Class 
Certificate Birmingham, 1907 
Feronia (Giant Leedsii) (4), xxxx, new 1919, flower of beautiful form measuring 4I inches 
across, perianth white with sulphur tinge at margin, erect and broad, crown cream, shaded 
pale lemon at margin, ht. 18 in 
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