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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1912. 
X GRAND NEW AMERICAN GLADIOLI. 
These are mostly new hybrids raised in Canada by Mr, H. H. Groff, and are remarkable for their tdll 
vigorous growth and large handsome flowers, which embrace many fine new colours. At Kew Gardens 
these grand Gladioli have been quite a centre of attraction. Plant from end of March to April. Orders 
booked for supply in early spring. 
Groff’S New Selected Blue and Heliotrope Shades, flowers large s d. s. d 
and beautiful, ranging from lilac and heliotrope to rich pansy-blue per too, 6o/- 8 6... — 
Groff’s Royal Purples, mostly handsome purples and dark Pansy-blues 
per too, 6o/- 8 
GrofPs New Yellow Hybrids, mostly soft yellow, primrose and cream-coloured 
shades with maroon or crimson blotch, and containing a few good seifs.. .per too, 6o/- 8 
Groff’s Selected Dark Hybrids, containing mostly rich dark velvety shades 
of scarlet, crimson, cherry-red, purple, some with a striking blotch, very handsome, 
per too, 45/- 6 
Groff’s Mixed Colours, containing a great variety of new and beautiful shades, 
per too, 45/- 6 
Afterglow (Groff), so named from its blend of colours resembling a Canadian 
sky after sunset, rose, salmon, fawn, and violet, flowers large and open, very beauti- 
tiful, ht. 4 to 5 ft 1 8 
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America, a very beautiful hybrid of G. GandavensU x Cl\ildsii, producing well- 
formed erect spikes, welt furnished with very large open flowers, pale silvery shell- 
pink shaded white, with slightly carmine lined centre, ht. 3 ft per too, 18/6 2 
Biue Jay, true (Groff), the Finest Blue Gladiolus, flowers large dark velvety 
purple-blue with white markings, very striking and beautiful, ht. 4 to 5 ft 16 
Dawn (Groff), flowers large and beautiful, delicate salmon (under glass shading 
to white), with a small red stain on lower petals 18 
Glory, a grand new break, flowers of elegant form, delicate creamy pink with margin 
of petals prettily undulated ; of fine robust habit, ht. 3$ ft. Awarded several 
First-Class Certificates per 100, 60/- 8 
Halley, flowers large and expanded, measuring 4 inches and more across, of a 
beautiful glowing salmon, shading to white at centre, lower petals marked crimson 
and primrose, ht. ft 8 
La Luna (Groff), flowers very large and beautiful, opening from a pale yellow to 
creamy white, the interior having a rosy glow, lower petals with blotch of velvety 
scarlet, ht. 3 ft. Award of Merit R.H.S., August 1910 10 
Mrs. Francis King, flowers large and beautiful, bright salmon-rose sh.aded scarlet, 
centre well lighted, lower petals having a handsome velve ty crimson blotch 7 
Peace (Groff), flowers of immense size, measuring over 4 in. across, white with 
faint rosy tinge, lower petals prettily feathered purple-crimson, ht. 3 to 4 ft 15 
Victory, a very beautiful variety, producing long spikes of well-formed flowers of a 
pale delicate primrose shaded cream, ht. 3 ft 6 
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xGLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS. 
The Large-flowered Vermilion-Scarlet Gladiolus. 
This well-known handsome Gladiolus blooms just before the Gladiolus Gandavensis varieties, and is 
one of the most valuable for bedding. By successional plantings outdoors from end of March to May, 
a brilliant display of bloom may be had from middle of July to late autumn. A fine effect may be 
produced by massing this Gladiolus with Galtonia candicans, the snowy white spikes of which top 
the Scarlet Gladioli; both bloom about the s&m6 time. p. xoo p. doz. 
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Qodd Flowering bulbs per 1000, 70/- 7 6...1 3 
Extra Selected bulbs 10 6...1 6 
Very large bulbs 15 0...2 3 
VARIOUS BEAUTIFUL GLADIOLI. 
Plant the bulbs from end of March to April, except segetum and tristis, which should be planted 
in autumn. each-r. d 
xChildsii, Mixed Hybrids, a fine robust race of Gladioli, resulting from a cross be- 
tween G. Nanceianus varieties and Lemoine’s Butterfly Gladioli, and blooming about 
the same time. The flowers are very large, and produced on long sturdy spikes, and range 
in colour from roses and pinks to reds and fiery scarlets ; valuable for grouping in herbaceous 
borders, ht. 3 to 5 ft per 100, 15/- ; per doz. 2/3 — 
