6 BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1899. 
STERNBBRGIA (Lily of the Field). These charming bulbous plants require a sunny 
aspect and a good deep light soil, and should be left to establish themselves ; plant over 
them Sedums, or cover in winter with dry litter. 
Fischeriana, a handsome Spring-flowering species of ‘ Lily of the Field’ .. per doz. 5/6 o 6 
maorantha, a new species, with very large golden-yellow flowers in autumn ... ,, 5/6 o 6 
TROP/EOLUM Leichtlini (new), resembling in habit T. polyphyllum, but flowers much 
deeper and brighter in colouring, being of a rich brilliant orange-gold, very hardy, free 
grower and profuse bloomer, charming used as a climber or trailer per doz. 24/- 2 6 
TULIPA Kaufmanniana, a rare and beautiful Tulip, bearing early in the season large 
flowers of elegant form and remarkable beauty, petals large, broad and reflexing, creamy 
white with more or less carmine-red on the reverse, centre yellow per doz. 15/- 1 6 
Lo inrnei, a beautiful rare species, flowers starry, light rose with yellow centre ... ,, 7/6 o 8 
Mauriana, a very rare species, flowers large, orange-scarlet with clear golden centre 4 6 
Mrs. Moon, a magnificent giant yellow Tulip belonging to the section of ‘ May-flowering 
Cottage Tulips ’ ; it attains a height of 2$ ft. , with very long pointed-petalled flowers of a rich 
golden colour, and of great substance. {See Illustration in ‘ The Garden.,' May 16, 1896) 2 6 
saxatilis, a real gem amongst Tulip species, flowers delicate rose with large bright yellow 
centre, very beautiful. Award of Merit R.H.S., ht. II inches per doz. 5/6 o 6 
Sprengeri, a beautiful and very showy species, and the latest of all to bloom ; the flowers 
are of a brilliant scarlet per 100, 25/-; per doz. 3/6 ... 
Hardy Bulbs and Plants 
FOR EXTENSIVE PLANTING 
IN SHRUBBERIES, FLOWER BORDERS, ON ROCKWORK, &c., AND TO NATURALISE 
IN WILD GARDENS, WOODLANDS, ALONG CARRIAGE DRIVES, ON BANKS, 
IN GRASS, &c. ; ALSO TO PLANT FOR CUT FLOWERS. 
For full descriptions see body of Catalogue. 
Year by year we see the taste 
increasing for the so-called ‘ Wild 
Garden,’ or the grouping of hardy 
subjects in a free and unconventional 
manner, leaving them to colonise and 
form themselves into pretty natural 
groups, such as Nature exhibits to 
us in her woods and copses, and 
wherever she has been left to reign 
undisturbed. This phase of gardening 
is one which must have a great at- 
traction for the lover of hardy flowers ; 
by it, bare and ugly places may be 
made beautiful, and a charm added 
to the landscape. Few sights are 
more beautiful in Spring than such 
hardy flowers as Daffodils, Snow- 
drops, Chionodoxas, Muscaris, Ane- 
mones, &c., established in grass. 
The experiment has been successfully 
made at Kew Gardens, to the great 
delight of visitors, and large stretches 
and siopes of grass-land thus planted, 
presented inSpringquite a ‘ Riviera’ 
picture. At the earliest dawn of 
Spring the following flowers will lighten up the landscape with their fresh bright colours : Winter 
Aconites , Snowdrops, Early Scillas, Chionodoxas, Early Daffodils, See. , followed by later-flowering 
Daffodils, Crocuses, Muscaris , Anemones, Star- of Bethlehem, Cowslips, Late Scillas, Cottage Tulips, &c. 
All the foregoing may be grown in grass-land where the grass is not cut till the meadows arc mown. On 
lawns, which require cutting earlier, such charming little early-flowering subjects as Stiowdrops, Chiono- 
doxas, Early Dwarf Daffodils, and Scillas may be planted. In places where the grass is not required to 
be cut, a still wider scope for gardening presents itself, as several of our Summer- and Autumn-flowering 
Lilies may be introduced, as also other tall and stately flowers. 
N.B.— We have marked thus t those flowers which will thrive in shady places. 
Under trees, on shady banks, &C., or may be planted in the open border. The variously coloured 
Wood Hyacinths (Blue Bells) will establish themseives freely under Pine and Fir trees and in shady nooks, 
where scarcely any other flower will thrive, and seen tnus they present a lovely sight. § Indicates 
those bulbs, &C., which are essentially wood plants, and should only be grown in shady situations. 
