chapter BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
barr & sons. This is one of the oldest and most reliable concerns in England. They are nurserymen and seedsmen, and their name is connected with many of the early peony introductions. Mr. Peter Barr of this concern was an enthusiastic collector and originated many beautiful plants. Their address is n, 12, and 13 King Street, Covent Garden, London, W. C. 2, England.
Barr's Catalog 1937
Barr's Catalog 1941
Barr, Peter, London, 1825-1909. Founder of firm of Barr and Sons, seedsmen.
It is also probable, but not definitely established, that Peter Barr of London may have made species crosses on Paeonia officinalis (for he introduced some fine seedlings under the names Ceres, Charmer, Otto Froebel, and Sunbeam) and on Paeonia arietina, from which a superior cultivar was obtained which he named Northern Glory. Our geneticists, cytologists, and morphologists may some day shed light on the parentage of these plants, but whatever records Barr may have kept were lost in a fire in his office long after his death. We know little or nothing of the means by which these hybrids [if they were really hybrids] were produced.
