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BARR’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 1909. 
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COLCHICUM speciosum album, a grand Meadow SalTron with very large snoTy 
white llowers, rare and beautiful •' 3/6 & 5 6 
CROCUS, Rare and Beautiful Species, autumn, winter, and spring-flowering, cems for the 
rock garden and pots. Specia/ descriptive list on application. 
CROCUS Bleu Celeste and Marmot, two lovely pale blue bedding .varieties, 24. 
EREMURUS Elwesianus a.lbus, a magnificent variety, producing stately spikes 
9 to 10 ft. high, furnished well down the stem with large beautiful white flowers: a grand 
border and exhibition plant ^ 
FREESIA 
“ beautiful new hybrid Freesia, a cross between F. aurea and F. refracta 
alba, bearing elegant racemes of flowers nearly the size oiF. refracta alba, varying from pritnrose 
to canary with golden shading and brilliant orange blotch, delicately fragrant ..perdoz. 30/- 2 9 
Dainty Maid, a remarkably pretty new hybrid with habit of F. refracta alba, bearing q 
to 12 well-formed flowers on a raceme, silvery lavender slightly tinged rose with a deep 
golden centre ^ ^ 
New Seedlings, The Herbert Chapman Strain, varying in shade from rich and soft 
yellows to primrose, apricot, and pure white, some with a deep orange blotch ; may be gently 
forced for early blooming “ ^ 
refracta alba. The true Pure White variety. See page 29. 
Rose Queen, olfered for the first time, quite a new shade in Freesias, the flowers being 
of a brilliant carmine-rose deepening in colour with age ; they are freely produced and 
last a very long time in condition. Award of Merit R.H.S., February 2;ird, 190!1 
(See ‘ The Garden," AfWi 6, 1909.) {only a few for sale-) 
Tubergeni (F. refracta alba x F. Armstrongl), a lovely new hybrid with flowers 
the size of Freesta refracta alba, of a delicate rose-lilac shade with white throat and base of 
tube bronzy gold, deliciously scented pgr floz. 25/- 2 3 
Tubergeni “Amethyst,” flowers a charming soft shade of lavender or mauve, very 
beautiful. Award of Merit R.H.S., 1U07 per doz. 25/- 2 3 
FUNKIA Fortune! robusta, ahandsome Zf/y with largemetallic-blue foliage ... 2 6 
Extra Early Strain for Forcing, a remarkably early strain of 
Flwes Giant Snowdrop ; can easily be brought into bloom in pots or vases for Christmas 
decoration Bxira strong bulbs, per 1,000, 60/-; per too, 6/6 ; per doz. i/- — 
>> >> Monster bulbs ,, Tib-, ,, 1/3 
GERBERA Jameson! (The Barberton or Transvaal Scarlet Daisy), a lovely plant from 
the Iransvaal, with large brilliant scarlet composite flowers, hardy if grown on a raised sunny 
bed under a wall facing south, by preference the wall of a stove house, flue, or heated 
building. The Gerbera delights in a light friable soil such as a mixture of loam and leaf 
soil, with addition of a little old mortar rubble ; when grown as a cool greenhouse subject 
water sparingly after flowering and during the winter months. 
Extra strong plants per doz. 15/- & 25/- ; 1/6 & 2 6 
” » >> Smaller plants, ready for potting on, pot doz. 7/6 o q 
GLADIOLUS 
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pr!mul!nus (Maid of the Mist), a rare and lovely species found growing in the 
neighbourhood of the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, where the spray at times 
completely covers it. The flowers, which are of a beautiful soft primrose-yellow, are of 
quaint hooded form and borne on spikes 2 to 3 ft. high, from July 'to August. Easily 
giown m pots in a cold greenhouse or out of doors in warm localities; while in full growth 
the plants should be given a liberal supply of water pe,- doz. 21/- 
pr!mul!nus Hybrids, containing some beautiful shades of soft primrose, pale buft'-yellovv 
apricot, pale copper and other delicate art shades, ht. aj ft per doz. 15/-’ 
princeps, the largest-flowered and perlnijis the most showy Gladiolus ever raised. Flowers 
of great size, very open, and beautifully formed, brilliant deep scarlet with white stripe down 
centre ol petal ; remarkably effective in the flower border per doz. 8, '6 
salmoneus {Baker), a fine distinct species from Griqualand East, found growing at an 
altitude of 3,tw to 4,000 ft. It produces spikes 18 in. high with showy salmon-red flowers 
2 in. long. 1 lant out of doors in a shady situation or grow in pots per doz, 25/- 
X GLORIOSA Leopold!, a line new Glory Lily from the Congo, producing an abundance of 
Dcautiuil seli-golden-ycllow flowers ; a grand warm greenhouse climber 
HELONIOPSIS 
® charming little plant introduced by us from Japan, producing out-of-doors 
in rebiuary and March sturdy little spikes 4 in. 'high studded with dainty white flowers 
passing off rose; it delights in a half-shady situation. Award of Merit R.II.S. See 
coloured plate in “ The Garden," July zznd, 1905 per doz. 10/6 
Krandiflora, a new species sent to us from Japan, and said to have large handsome flowers 
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