Barr’s 
“Gold Medal” Daffodils. 
DAFFODILS are the most graceful and beautiful of all Hardy Spring Flowers, and withstand 
uninjured our severest winters better than any other flower. The cut blooms are always acceptable, and 
are in abundance out of doors at a season when other flowers are scarce. They supplement and associate 
admirably with hot-house flowers. 
BARR’S DAFFODILS have been awarded the highest prizes during the Spring of 1905, 
including Gold, Silver-gilt, and Silver Medals for groups, and First-Class Certificates 
and Awards of Merit for individual varieties. 
PRESS NOTICES OF BARR*S DAFFODILS. 
Extract from “The Gardener's Chronicle,” April 22nd, 1903. 
“DAFFODIL SEASON 
“at Messrs. Barr’s Surbiton Nurseries. 
“ The popular names of some of our oldest and most beautiful flowers are almost as beautiful as the flowers 
themselves, and are oft-times singularly appropriate. How better could the Narcissus be described than as 
Lent Lilies, for at this season the Daffodils are at their best — at any rale, they are at Messrs. Hark & Sons' 
nursery at Ditton Hill, which it was our pleasure to visit a few days since? A sight such as is afforded at 
‘ Daffodil time ’ in these nurseries, where acres of these bulbous flowers are to be seen at a stretch, is one not 
readily forgotten. 
" This is not to be wondered at when it is remembered that the firm of Messrs. Harr & Sons is among 
those pioneers who have taken the Daffodil in hand, and have given to us so many of those beautiful and 
improved forms with which we are acquainted. The different types and species represented in the genus 
Narcissus have afforded material to the hybridist and cultivator in plenty. Here at Dillon may be seen the 
very ‘acme’ of all that is best and novel among these popular flowers. The work of improvement still goes 
on, evidenced by the many fine seedlings yet unnamed brought to our notice, and by the order overheard given 
to the hybridist to take advantage of the morning to pollinate. 
" As we enter the Narcissus fields — for such they can only be described — we pass through a rockery which is 
full of patches of colour. A drapery of Aubrielia hangs in a mass over a huge boulder ; another stone is hidden 
by tresses of Arabis albida ; a patch of Muscari ‘ Heavenly Blue' forms a deligluful groundwork to a bed of 
that rare find of Mr. Peter Barr, Narcissus Queen of Spain ; Cydonias in many shades of colour are worked 
in here and there, while Magnolia stellata is still in full beauty. But we pass on past breadths of coloured 
Primroses and Cowslips to our object — the beds of Daffodils. To enumerate the whole of the varieties seen 
would necessitate the compilation of nothing short of a bulky catalogue, so we must be content to notice a few 
only of the choicer and newer varieties. I'he variety * Ariadne,’ that was recently given an Award of Merit by 
the Royal Horticultural Society, is of most perfect form, with a perianth of the purest white, surrounding a 
corona of pale sulphur-yellow, with a crenated margin. Admiral Togo, as its name would suggest, is new, 
and resembles a big Emperor. Its rival, Admiral Makaroff, is also of the trumpet section, with a glorious 
yellow corona. Beatrice, one of the Leedsii section, is an almost pure white flower, with perianth of the best 
form. J. B. Camm deserves a word of notice ; it is still one of the finest light-coloured trumpet Daffodils. 
Beauty is a large Incomparabilis, the corona being tipped with orange. 
“ A bed of ‘ Barrii conepicuus ’ in full beauty could not fail to attract attention, while near by were such 
fine things as Duchess of Westminster, Weardale Perfection, and White Lady. Willie Barr has a lovely 
perianth of the softest shade of yellow and fimbriated margins ; near by is Madame de Graaff, hardly surpassed 
as a white trumpet Daffodil for its size, colour, and symmetry of form. Vesuvius, Mars, and Lucifer, all of 
the Incomparabilis type, differ principally in the degrees of colour in the corona. Sunset may be noted for its 
umbel of fragrant flowers, each crowned with an orange-red cup ; as well as Mercedes, anew Burbidgei, which 
hangs its twisted perianth and bright red cup in quite a modest manner. Varieties still appeal to us, but 
limited space compels us to but mention such fine new things as Rowena, Rev. D. R. Williamson, Salmonetta, 
Peter Barr, Peach (Leedsii), Mrs. George Barr, Lobster, King Alfred. Hon. Mrs. Jocelyn, Loveliness, etc. 
Among the Poet's Narcissus, one of the finest varieties is Glory, having large snowy white petals and an 
exquisite ' eye.' 
“The breadths apportioned to seedlings were well furnished, and many promising things were noticed. 
One labelled 115, a seedling bicolor, reminded us of a large J. M. B. Camm ; another, 663, is a fine lemon- 
yellow-coloured bicolor ; its neighbour, 664, carried a fine yellow trumpet, and was the result of a cross between 
Madame Plcmp and Lord Roberts ; No. 68 resembles Weardale Perfection, but with a lighter trumpet and a 
white perianth ; Pharaoh is a bold flower with sturdy trumpet of rich sulphur-yellow ; No. 660 is a fine white 
Ajax with curved petals and creamy perianth. The giant trumpet of Milky Way is of the palest yellow, while 
the flower is of excellent form ; Mrs. Betteridge is new, with the trumpet almost white, spreading and crenated 
at the margin. Mrs. Henry Buckley, a new seedling of the Incomparabilis type, has a large, rich corona and a 
well-shaped flower ; Blackwell, another Incomparabilis, although not new, is one of the best of this type, its 
beautiful chalice being stained with orange-scarlet ; the flower stands well above the foliage. A bed of Cleo- 
patra (trumpet) was in full beauty, while in contrast was the dwarf-growing yet sturdy Phil May, whose 
trunipet is of large proportions. 1 he list is incomplete, but we must pass on, and as we do so, notice some of 
the other occupants of the nurseries, for— 
‘ Here Hyacinths in purple sweetness rise, 
And Tulips tinged with beauty's fairest dyes. 
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