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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1910. 
x GLORIOSA (Glory Lilies), very beautiful bulbous warm greenhouse or stove climbers with 
brilliantly coloured flowers. Trained on globes or wires the blooms are seen to advantage. 
The roots should be grown in a compost of loam and peat. 
Leopoldi. See Novelty List, page 8. 
Rothschildiana, the true original species from Uganda and the finest of all, with 
flowers measuring nearly 6 inches across, colour brilliant crimson-lake, the perianth seg- 
ments being margined gold, anthers golden 7 6 
superba (The Malabar Glory Lily), bearing showy rich orangc-red flowers; remarkably 
showy 3 6 
virescens (syn. Methonica Plantii), the Mozambique Lily, flowers rich orange and 
yellow 2 6 
GLORY OF THE SNOW. See Chionodoxa, page 22. 
GLOXINIA, beautiful bulbous stove plants, large flowers of perfect form, colours rich and varied. 
x Barr’s Exhibition Named Varieties per doz. 24/ , 30/- & 36/- — 
x Fine Named Varieties per doz. 12/6 — 
x Barr’s Beautiful Seedling Varieties, Mixed „ 6/6 — 
GRAPE HYACINTH. See Muscari. 
GUERNSEY LILY. See Nerine sarniensis. 
HABRANTHUS pratensis. See Hippeastrum. 
X H/EMANTHUS (The Blood-flower), it would not be possible to overrate the grand effect of 
these noble plants, whether grown in the greenhouse or stove. 
Andromeda, a handsome new hybrid of H. Katharines x H. magnifleus, and the largest- 
flowered and most vigorous growing of all. It produces in June immense heads of crimson 
flowers 6 6 
Kalbreyeri, a grand plant with immense heads of numerous flowers which are brilliant 
vermilion with golden anthers, very showy, ht. I ft 7 6 
Katharinse, a magnificent plant of noble bearing, with large heads of brilliant orange- 
scarlet flowers, ht. 2 ft 4 6 
puniceus, orange-scarlet, ht. 1 ft., each 3/6; coccincus, scarlet, ht. 1 ft 3 6 
HIPPEASTRUM pratense {syn. Habranthus pratensis), a very attractive bulbous 
plant producing in early Summer an umbel of showy Amaryllis-like brilliant scarlet flowers, 
ht. 1 ft. Recommended for pots in cold greenhouse or to plant outdoors 6 in. deep at foot 
ot a south wall, or in any other warm sunny situation per doz- 15/- 1 6 
HOMERIA coll ina (Bobartia), a beautiful Sparaxis-like plant, producing in May a profusion of 
orange-red flowers with yellow centre, measuring 2.J inches across, ht. 2 ft., cultural treatment 
same as for Ixias per 100, 5/6 ; per doz. to d. 
Barr’s Choice Named Hyacinths. 
For Glasses, Jardinets, Bowls, Pots, and for Exhibition. 
Culture in Pots.— The soil should be a compost of good fibrous loam with a liberal addition 
of leaf-soil, sharp sand, and thoroughly well-decayed cow manure. Piiytobroma (see page 96) may also 
be added at the rate of 1 lb. per bushel. The compost should be well mixed and left to stand some time 
before being used. New pots should be well soaked in water before use. 
In potting, barely cover the bulb, and let the soil be | in. below the rim of the pot, to allow for 
watering. After potting give one good watering and then place the pots outdoors on a bed of ashes, 
cover with six inches of cocoa fibre, and leave them exposed to all weathers. When the bulbs have 'well 
rooted, and made about an inch of top growth, they may be removed indoors, first into a subdued light, 
until the blanched foliage has attained its full green colour, and then into the sunniest situation at command 
in the greenhouse or conservatory. It is a good plan to place an inverted flower pot over the young 
growths for a few days after being removed from the plunging bed, as by so doing they are protected 
from possible draught. Abundance of air, a moderately moist atmosphere, and plenty of water at the 
roots are then necessary for early well-developed flower-spikes. A dry or frosty atmosphere or a draughty 
situation will cause the flower-buds to shrivel. Forcing should only be done gently , the temperature not 
exceeding 60 degrees. A too frequent fault made in forcing Hyacinths is that they arc subjected to 
heat before the bulbs are fully rooted. 
For earliest flowers— namely, for January and February — pot middle of September and leave in the 
plunging bed 10 to 12 weeks. 
if*T If finely developed trusses and rich colours are preferred to very early flowers, the 
Hyacinth should not be forced; pot up the bulbs middle of October and leave them plunged out of 
doors three months or more, according to season, then remove them to a mild temperature like that of a 
cool greenhouse, a sitting-room window, or frame, always selecting the sunniest and most genial situation. 
Culture in Glasses.— We recommend only Single Hyacinths for glasses. The most reliable 
sorts for growing in glasses we have indicated by 'F Pure clean water (rain-water by preference) the 
same temperature as the room should be used, with a piece or two of pure wood charcoal in it. The 
bulb can be made secure in the glass by a piece of fish netting, and i ts base should at all times just 
