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BARR’S NEW SEEDLING NERINES, 1921. 
NERINES. 
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF AUTUMN FLOWERS FOR the GREENHOUSE. 
For autumn decoration in the greenhouse few plants can compare with Nerines for their brilliant 
and attractive colours, which form a pleasing contrast to the prevailing tints of this period of the year. 
The flowers, which are produced in umbels of 6 to 24 blooms, 
are borne on stout stems varying in height from 1 to 2 feet. 
In colour they range from dark red, virid crimson, cerise, 
and scarkt to salmon, coral-rose, pink, blush, and white, many 
having a glistening lustre which in sunlight gives them the 
appearance of being dusted with gold or silver. In some 
cases the flowers have a well-defined bar or stripe running 
up centre of petal which adds to their charm. They remain 
decorative for many weeks, and their beauty may be enjoyed 
in a sitting-room as well as the greenhouse, if the pots are 
kept in a simny window. 
The cut spikes, which last fresh a long time, are greatly 
appreciated for table decoration associated with some light 
graceful foliage like that of Maidenhair Fern. 
The varieties we offer below are mostly New Seedlings, 
comprising now shades of colour and new forms ; they are 
freer bloomers, and in some oases of taller growth, and 
with larger flowers than any of the older kinds. 
CuLTunE. — Nerines can be very easily grown by any 
one who has a glass structure from which frost can bo 
excluded. Plenty of air and sunshine are their principal 
requirements. After the bulbs have finished flowering, place 
the pots on an airy sunny shelf close to the glass, and 
encourage a free foliage growth by giving occasionally a 
little weak liquid manure. In April or May, when the 
foliage commences to turn yellow, cease giving water and 
allow the bulbs to ripen off in their pots. As soon as the 
plants show signs of making fresh growth in August or early 
September, stand the pots in saucers of water for a few 
hours to ensure the soil being uniformly moist, and then give water sparingly until the flower 
spikes are well advanced. 
Nerines bloom most freely when well established in pots. Re-pot every third or fourth year. 
In potting, put in plenty of crocks to ensure good drainage, and use a compost of two-thirds good loam 
and one-third sand, with a sprinkling of well-decayed leaf soil or old manure and bonemeal. 
5 ^ Our Exhibits of New Hybrid Nerines have been awarded by the R.H.S. a Silver Gilt 
and three Silver Medals, 1914 to 1920. 
Ada Bryson, ZijAf salmon-red with pronounced scorfef stripe, narrow pointed petals, good 
truss 5 G 
Afterglow, rich glowing rose, petals margined pink, large open flower, waved petals, fine 
truss 42 0 
Aglaia, silvery white, slightly shaded pink 15 0 
Aladdin, rose shaded mauve with crimson star, long narrow pointed petals, free-flowering 4 6 
Albatross, white with delicate pink flush, nice truss 15 0 
Alpha, light scarlet with a silvery-mauve sheen and scarlet stripe half way up sepals 4 6 
* Aphrodite, so/t coroZ-scorZef with silver dusting and deeper coloured stripe down centre of 
the broad refloxed petals 10 6 
Apricot, soft orange-scarlet, large broad-petalled well-formed open flowers, fine truss 21 0 
Ariadne, bltish-salmon with salmon-red stripe, largo flower, good truss, extra fine 16 0 
Ariel, light coral-salmon, with deeper stripe on petals, which are long and narrow 4 6 
Armorel, bright cherry, deeper coloured stripe, petals prettily waved 5 (i 
Aurora, coral-pink changing to mauve, waved petals, large flower and tall grower 5 0 
Barcarolle, beautiful “ old rose,” with glistening silver sheen and deeper stripe up each 
petal, extra finely formed flower and truss 42 0 
Beacon, soft shade of scarlet slightly paler towards centre, stamens salmon, fine truss 7 6 
Beatrice, white shaded pink towards edge of petals 7 6 
Bedouin, scorZcZ-cerise, large open flower with reflexed waved petals, tall grower 15 0 
Berenice, bright pZnZ:, with rose stripe half way' up petal, nice large open flower, good truss 7 6 
Bianca, soft coral-scarlet, narrow petals 5 0 
Blanche, blush-white with faint rose line down petal, petals tipped rose, compact truss 7 (5 
Blazing Star, glowing vermilion-scarlet, large open showy flowers 7 6 
Boadicea, deep crimson-scarlet, dusted with gold, petals reflexed, fine compact truss 84 0 
Bodyguard, j7Zou)Zn9 crinwpn shot with purpZc, large handsome truss 42 0 
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