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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1912. 
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OESeRlPTIYE LIST ©F 
The Best Bulbs. Tubers, etc. 
FOR ALL SEASONS AND CLIlVlATES. 
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED FOR EASY REFERENCE. 
In the following pages we give descriptions, as far as space permits, of the various Bulbs, etc., 
with general notes as to their cultural requirements. The illustrations are mostly reproductions, on a 
greatly reduced scale, of photographs taken at our Nurseries. 
Great care is taken in the selecting of our Bulbs, these being drawn from the best bulb farms 
only. High-class Daffodils and Tulips, etc., also many rare and beautiful bulbous plants, we are 
ourselves large growers of. 
X |i^ Those bulbs and tubers marked thus x ripen late and are sent out from November 
to March. All other bulbs, etc., are ready for despatch in September and October. Orders 
which embrace early and late ripening bulbs, etc., will be executed therefore in two parts. 
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xABOBRA viridiflora, an elegant scarletfruited half-hardy perennial climber; plant 
outdoors in Spring and lift the tubers in Autumn, storing them m dry sand in a cool^ place 
x ACHIMENES, a charming family of plants with brilliantly coloured elegant flowers making 
a very pleasing decoration in the greenhouse from early Summer onwards ; in colour they 
range from vermilion and scarlet to rose, lavender-blue, and white, etc. Pot in rich light 
soil in Spring (5 roots to a 5-inch pot) and plunge in a gentle bottom heat ; when in bloom 
they may be removed to any ordinary greenhouse or conservatory. 
5 each of 10 distinct varieties, 10/6 ; 5 each of 5 distinct varieties, 5/6 
Beautiful Hybrids, mixed, containing a great variety of charming colours ^ per doz 2'- 
tublflora (syn. Dolichodeira), a valuable but little known pot-plant for greenhouse, 
bearing trusses of long tubular white flowers which have a delicious fragrance ...per doz. 6/b 
ACONITE- Winter. See Winter Aconite. 
AGAPANTHUS (African Liiy). See Spring Bulb List. 
xALBUCA Nelsoni, a lovely bulbous plant from the Cape, producing in July and August 
handsome spikes of almond-scented pure white flowers, with brown stripe down petal (under 
glass pure white), ht. 3 ft. ; plant out of doors under a south wall in Spring, and lift 1 1 e 
bulbs in Autumn. It may also be potted up in Autumn for greenhouse culture.. .per doz. 8/6 
ALLIUM, a decorative and showy family of hardy Spring- and Summer-flowering bulbs, valuable 
alike for borders or rockwork and for naturalising in woods, etc. They are Spiing-flowenng 
except where otherwise slated. 
acuminatum, with beautiful soft rosy lilac flowers in umbels, lit. i ft per doz. 2/6 
albo-pilosum, a striking species with large heads of lilac flowers and downy 
azureum, handsome intense blue flowers in July, quite hardy, ht. 2 ft ,, 3 /^ 
descendans, producing in July heads of dark red-purple floweis, ht. 2 ft ,, 3 /^ 
giganteum {syu. nobile\ a handsome rare speeies with large heads of greyish lilac 
lluwers which remain beautiful fur a long time, ht. 3 
karataviense, a handsome plant, with very large broad glaucous-green foliage spreading 
dose to the ground, and bearing large globular heads of reddish lilac tlowcis, ht. 
Moly (Golden Garlic), showy bright yellow flowers in large handsome umbels, '’aluable 
for flower borders and naturalisation, ht. I ft per lOOO, 2l/- ; per too, 2/3 , per oz. 4<f. 
neapolitanum, an elegant bouquet flower largely grown for the market, producing 
numerous heads of graceful white flowers ; it is a charming plant to naturalise in shady 
woods, associated with the blue Wood Hyacinth, ht. 1$ inches per lOO, 3/6 ; per doz. bd. 
Ostrowskianum (syu. oreophyllum), a charming speeies from Asia Minor, with 
large heads of beautiful rose-coloured (lowers, valuable for the rock garden and flower border, 
jjj per 100, 4/6 ; per doz, 8<^. 
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