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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1898. 
CHEAP OFFER 
OF 
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 this Spring, 
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at ouk long ditton nurseries. land thus planted, presented quite a 
‘ Riviera ’ picture. At the earliest 
dawn of Spring the following flowers will lighten up the landscape with their fresh bright colours : Winta 
Aconites, Snowdrops, Early Scillas, Chionodoxas, Early Daffodils, &c., followed by later-flowering 
Daffodils , Crocuses , Muscaris , Anemones , Star of Bethlehem , Cowslips , Late Scillas , Cottage Tulips , <xc. 
All the foregoing may be grown in grass-lantl where the grass is not cut till the meadows arc mown. On 
lawns, which require cutting earlier, such charming little early-flowering subjects as Snowdrops, 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 themselves freely under Pine and Fir trees and in shady nooks, 
where scarcely any other flower will thrive, and seen thus they present a lovely sight. § Indicates 
those bulbs &C., which are essentially wood plants, and should only be grown in shady situations. 
per per per 
1000 100 doz. 
s. 
d. s. 
d. s. 
d. 
f Anemone, single, mixed 17 
6... 2 
0...0 
4 
t , 
, double mixed 35 
0... 4 
0...0 
8 
+ , 
, single ‘Bride,’ snow-white30 
0... 3 
6...0 
6 
t , 
, fulgens, dazzling scarlet... 55 
0... 6 
6... 1 
O 
t , 
, apennina, pale blue 55 
0... 6 
6... 1 
O 
t • 
alba 
... 7 
6... 1 
3 
t , 
, japonica, white, rose, or 
rOBecrimson, each var. ... 
. ...21 
0...4 
O 
s. . 
, nemorosa, double white 
, ...10 
6... 1 
6 
per per per 
1000 100 do z. 
s. d. s. d s. d. 
§ Anemone palmata, yellow 18 0...2 6 
§ ,, ranunculoides, yellow 7 6...1 3 
fAllium Moly, yellow 30 o... 3 6...0 6 
f ,, ne&politanum, flowers pure 
white 30 o... 3 6...0 6 
Brodiaea grandiflora, blue, I, ft.. .50 o... 5 6...0 10 
fBulbocodium vernum 10 6...1 6 
fCamassia esculenta, purple 40 o... 4 6...0 8 
fChionodoxa Luciliae 30 o... 3 6...0 6 
j ,, sardensis, deep true blue.. .30 o... 3 6...0 6 
