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EARLY WHITE ROMAN HYACINTH. 
BARR'S EARLY WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS 
GROWN IN BOWL OF PEBBLES AND WATER. 
Extra Selected French-grown Bulbs. 
This charming little Hyacinth is of great value for early 
forcing, and may be had in bloom during November, Decem- 
ber, and January by successional plantings. Several bulbs 
in a pot make a charming Winter decoration for the green- 
house or sitting-room, while to cut for bouquets and vases 
the graceful spikes of sweet-scented blooms are highly prized. 
The Roman and Italian My.acinths lend themselves readily 
to culture in bowls of pebbles and water or our fertilised 
fibre, shell and charcoal mixture. (For Culltiral Direc- 
tions, see page 2. ) 
Early White Roman Hyacinth, 
Extra Large Selected Bulbs 
per too, 1 8/6 2 8 
First-size Selected Bulbs ,, 14/6 2 □ 
A few Monster Bulbs, rrn/rc ,, 25/- 3 6 
Second-size bulbs we do not stock, as they 
produce so few flowers, but we can procure 
them for customers if required. 
Barr’s "Extra Early” 
PINK ROMAN HYACINTH. 
A very graceful little Hyacinth and the earliest of all to bloom, coming in even before the Early 
White Roman Hyacinth per too, 21/-; per doz. 3/- 
Barr's " Extra Early ” 
BLUSH ITALIAN HYACINTH. 
A very beautiful variety with fine spikes of delicate blush-white flowers opening before the other 
Italian Hyacinths per too, 25/- ; per doz. 3/6 
ITALIAN AND FRENCH EARLY HYACINTHS. 
These bloom just after the White Roman Hyacinth, and are therefore valuable for succession. They 
are all of graceful beauty, and may be had in bloom in December and January. They can easily be grown 
in bowls of pebbles and water or our prepared Fibre, shell, and charcoal mixture, and make 
a very pretty decoration for the greenhouse and sitting-room. per doz. 
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Blue, producing spikes of dark porcelain-blue flowers on dark-coloured stems ...per too, 14/6 2 o 
Ivory White, producing elegant spikes of white bells with tube delicately tinged creamy 
blush, valuable for cutting and succeeding the White Roman Hyacinth per too, 14/6 2 o 
Market Rose, a pretty little French Hyacinth with graceful blush-white bells striped 
rose crop failed — 
Parisian Double Blue, flowers double, full lavender, the lube shading to a pretty 
azure-blue ^ 5 /' 3 ® 
Primrose, a lovely Hyacinth producing freely graceful spikes of pale chrome-yellow single 
flowers ; very beautiful when grown in bowls and vases pc*r 100, 25,- 3 6 
£z(ra Strong Bulbs ,, 35/- 5 O 
Shell-Pink, bearing double bells of elegant form, colour a charming shell-pink shaded 
blush-white, very beautiful. This variety will only bear very gentle forcing crop failed 
HYACINTH -Grape, Starch, and Feathered. See musca.ri, page 62 and (>3. 
HYACINTHUS 
amethystinus, an elegant Alpine Hyacinth of the most beauiiful amethyst-blue: 
charming in pots, and clumps in flower borders, or as edgings, and a valuable balb to naturalise 
in grass, woodlands, etc., ht. .1 ft ptr icoo, 3 °/'! per too, 3/6 o 0 
amethystinus albus, a beautiful white variety of the above, ht. J ft ,, 10/6 t 6 
azureus. See Muscari, page 62. 
candicans. Galtonia,/4?z 32. 
Barr's Special Vases and Bowls for Spring-flowering Bulbs. 
Doulton-Wape Bulb Vases, unglazed in neutral drab shade, or glazed in dark or light green : 2J in. 
diameter, -/9; 4 in. dia., 1/3 ; 5^ in. dia., 2/- ; 7 in. dia., 3/- each. 
Fancy Decorated Japanese Bowls:— 5 in. diamciLT. ~/io\ 6 in. dia , iji’, 7 */9 : 
3/- ; 9^ in. dia., 4/- ; lo.'^ in. dia., 6/- ; 12 in. dia., 8/6 each. 
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