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BARR’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 1912. 
FREESIA. — Beautiful New Varieties, strongly recommended as pot plants and to cut for vases. 
Their colours are bright and attractive and all are delightfully fragrant. cacl.-j. 
Abundcinco, a lovely new variety, producing freely light rose-coloured flowers tinged 
mauve and developing to a deep carmine-rose per doz. 21/- 2 
Dainty flowers a pretty rose-lilac shading to white towards centre with bright yellow blotch 
on lower petal per doz. 30/- 2 
Fairy Queen, a lovely new variety raised by Mr. Herbert Chapman, flowers white with a 
very handsome blotch of reddish orange on lower petals, a remarltably striking flower 7 
Le Phare, flowers a charming carmine-rose, colour deepening with age. Award of 
Merit R.H.S per doz. 25/- 2 
Mauve Ideal, flowers large, delicate silvery lavender, lube and centre white coloured 
chrome at base, beautiful 5 
Rosa Bonheur, flowers bright rose developing to carmine-rose with rich yellow blotch 
on lower petals, beautiful ^ 
Rose Queen, a beautiful variety, flowers brilliant carmine-rose deepening in colour with 
aue Award of Merit R. H.S., February 28rd, 1909. “ The Garden,” March 6, 1909) 
* per doz. 36/* 
Sal monetta, bearing on long stems soft salmon-red flowers tinged apricot, a charming 
, per doz. 18/6 
colour * , 
FRITILLARIA chitralcnsis, a beautiful new Crown Imperial from Chitral, bearing from 
February to March heads of drooping bell-shaped rich soft yellow flowers. It is very distinct 
from all other Crown Imperials in foliage and habit, and the flowers have not a disagreeable 
GALANTHUS Elwesii, cultivated bulbs, blooming a little later than the collecled bulbs, 
and having larger and more solid flowers. A grand Giant Snowdrop for flower borders, rock 
carden or pots strong bulbs, per i,ooo, 6o/-; per lOO, 6/6 ; per doz. i/- 
Monster bulbs ,, 7/6 ; tt ^/3 
X GLADIOLUS King Edward VII., a beautiful new hybrid of the Early Gladioli Crimson 
Ouecn X Ardens, having in July very large spreading flowers of a brilliant red shaded orange, 
the three iower petals being marked purple and silver, ht. i8 in. Award of Merit R.H.S. 
IRIS King of the Blues, the Finest Blue English Iris, flowers large and handsome, 
of a brilliant dark blue with the standards more or less flaked a darker shade, fine robust 
IRIS fumosa, a very rare Iris, closely allied and of similar character to,/. Sindjarensis, but 
having yellowish flowers ’ ^ 
IRIS, New Regelio-Cyclus Varieties, a lovely new race of Irises, «« 52- 
iris! English and Spanish-Beautiful New Varieties, with large handsome 
flowers of brilliant varied colours, included in our general list on pages 45 1° 40- 
IRIS, New Giant Early Xiphium Irises, early-flowering hybrids of/. Xiphitim.clo. 
See page 49. 
LACHENALIAS.— Beautiful New Varieties. See page 54. 
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LILIUM 
candidum 
(The Madonna Lily) a few monsler bulbs, per 100, 55/- ; per doz. 7/6 
very large bulbs ,, 4°/' » >> 
Speciosum,”a distinct and rare variety of the Madonna /.r/j', producing 
” black stems about six feet high, bearing 20 or more fine white flowers ; a 
very reliable grower P=-^ 
X myriophyllum (new), a rare and beautiful Chinese Lily having the appearance of a 
refined /-/*r« Bro-wnii ; it bears in July on a sturdy leafy stem three to four 
flowers of great substance, expanded at mouth, colour inside waxy white, flushed yellow, 
back of petals broadly banded ruby-red, anthers golden, sweet-scented ht. 3 ft 
IVIONTBRETIAS— Beautiful New Hybrids, see page 64. 
*'^^i?Heavenly Blue,” the most beautiful of all Starch and Grape Hyacinths, and one of the 
loveliest blue flowers of spring, , 
monsler bulbs giving an abundance of flower, per 1000, 75/- ; per lOO, 8/ , per . /3 
Masseyanum, a very distinct new Tassel-Hyacinth with bright rosy coloured flowers 
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per doz. 25/- 2 3 
