BARR’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 190S 
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angulosa alba, a pure white-flowered form of the handsome H. angulosa and a valuable 
addition to this lovely family. We obtained an Award of Merit for this plant from the 
R.H.S per doz. ic/6 i o 
Double White, a rare and beautiful variety with pure white very double flowers. 
Kirst-Ci.ass Certificate R.H.S 5 6 
R HYMENOCALLIS Amancses, the Golden-Yellow Peruvian Daffodil, a rare and hand- 
some greenhouse bulbous plant, ht. i^ to 2 ft per doz. 48/- 4 6 
IRIS 
Caterina, a lovely hybrid raised by the late Sir Michael Foster from I. cypriana and 
I. pallida ; the flowers are of great size and borne on long stout branching stems, standards 
light clear blue, falls soft lilac-blue deliciously fragrant, ht. 4i ft. Award OF Merit R.H.S. 3 6 
reticulata major, true, isom Herr Max Leichtlin’s original variety, flowers brilliant 
deep violet with golden-yellow blotch, larger and with broader falls than the type ; hardy, 
flowering outdoors in February, ht. f ft. Very scarce 3 ^ 
Sibirica Blue King, a very handsome variety sent home by Mr. Peter Barr from Japan, 
producing large clear blue flowers ; equally good for flower border or water’s side, ht. 3 ft. 
per doz. s/6 o 6 
Sibirica Snow Queen, an exquisite variety also sent to us by Mr. Peter Barr from 
Japan, flowers large, ivory-white, of beautiful form, ht. 3 ft. ; a gem for flower border or 
water’s side. Award of Merit R.H.S., June 24th, 1902 per doz. 7/6 o 9 
tectorum album, a very beautiful white-flowered form of the Japanese Roof Iris; an 
elegant and chaste flower, rare (for culture, see I. tectorum, page 49) per doz. 10/6 i o 
IRIS, New Regelio-Cyclus Varieties, a lovely new raee of Irises, 49. 
IRIS, English and Spanish— Beautiful New Varieties, with large handsome 
flowers of brilliant varied colours, included in our general list on pages 42 to 45. 
IRIS, New Dutch, early flowering hybrids of /. Xiphion, etc. See page 45. 
LILIUM 
candidum (The Madonna Lily) a feia monster bulbs, per 100, 55/- ; per doz. 7/6 
„ „ ,, very large bulbs „ 35/-; „ $/- 
Marhan “Miss E. Willmott,” a very beautiful new hybrid Lily producing large 
elegant spikes of large flowers with reflexing petals, June to July, colour orange tinged 
carmine with crimson-purple spots, ht. 3v ft 
pardalinum Burbank’s Hybrids, very fine hybrids raised by Mr. Luther 
Burbank between L. pardalinum and L. Humboldti, producing robust-growing plants with 
heads of handsome flowers varying from clear orange to orange tipped crimson, all beautifully 
spotted per doz. 30/- 
pardalinum “ Red Giant,” a remarkably fine new Lily selected from hybrids raised 
by Mr. Luther Burbank ; it is a very strong grower, bearing in July heads of blood-crimson 
flowers shaded red towards centre and profusely spotted dark maroon, remarkably effective... 
sulphureum {syn. Wallichianura superbum and ochroleucum), a very beautiful 
Trumpet Lily from Upper Burmah, producing in September handsome flowers 9 inches long, 
of great substance, and deliciously fragrant ; on first opening they are of a soft sulphur colour, 
but change ultimately to white tinged rose, ht. 4 to 6 ft. In the South of England and mild 
localities this charming Lily may be grown out of doors, but otherwise we recommend pot- 
culture in a cool airy greenhouse, plunging the pots out of doors in summer and bringing 
them indoors for blooming in autumn. A peaty soil suits it best strong bulbs 
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MICROLOMA lineare, the Coral Climber of South Africa, a very graceful plant found 
growing on the open African veldt at the foot of low scrubby bushes, which it covers with 
its clusters of wax like crimson bells ; grow in a cool airy greenhouse in a compost of healthy 
peat and sand, and train growths over branching twigs, very rare 
MONTBRETIAS— Beautiful New Hybrids, see page 62. 
MUSCARI 
“ Heavenly Blue,” the most beautiful of all Starch and Grape Hyacinths, and one of the 
loveliest blue flowers of spring Extra large bulbs, per 100, 8/6 ; per doz. 1/3 
Masseyanum, a very distinct new Tassel-Hyacinth with bright rosy coloured flowers 
per doz. 10/6 
NERINE 
flexuosa alba, a rare and beautiful bulbous plant, be.aring an umbel of about twelve 
snowy while flowers, with elegantly undulated and recurving petals, ht. 2 ft. ; a fine subject 
for pot-culture in cool greenhouse, or to plant out of doors under a south wall. Award of 
Merit R.H.S. and R.B.S., 1901! Established plants in pots, per doz. 36/- 
marginata, a Ireautiful showy species from the south-western p.art of Cape Colony, bearing 
an umbel of lo to 20 bright scarlet flowers ; a fine greenhou.se plant per doz. 36/- 
pancratioides, a beautiful species from Natal, with long slender leaves and tall spikes 
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of blush-white flowers with rudimentary corona, ht. I5 ft. 
Beautiful New Hybrids of rare crosses, varying in colour from pink to dark crimson, 
ht. 18 iq, per doz. 24/- 
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