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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1913. 
EARLY ITALIAN AND FRENCH 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 Peat-fibre, shell, and charcoal mixture, and make 
a very pretty decoration for the greenhouse and sitting-room. per doz. 
s. d 
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 
Primrose, a lovely Hyacinth producing freely graceful spikes of pale chrome-yellow single 
flowers ; very beautiful when grown in bowls and vases ; very scarce 5 o 
Shell-Pink, bearing semi-double bells of elegant form, colour a charming shell-pink shaded 
blush- white, very beautiful. This variety will only bear very gentle forcing per 100, 21/- 3 o 
EARLY LARGE-FLCWERED DUTCH HYACINTHS. 
Specially Prepared for Early Forcing. 
These Hyacinths are harvested specially early and so prepared as to be capable of being forced into 
bloom by Christmas. For this purpose they should be potted up by the middle of September, plunged in 
a cold airy frame, and be removed indoors to a gentle heat about the middle of November. They may 
also be grown to flower in January and February. 
Colours— Pink, Rose, Crimson, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Pure White ... rar/z ro/iraz-, per doz. 6/- 
HYACINTH— Grape, Starch, and Feathered. See Muscari, pages 68 and 69. 
HYACINTHUS per doz. 
amethystinus, an elegant Alpine Hyacinth of the most beautiful amethyst-blue; 
charming in pots, and clumps in flower borders, or as edgings, and a valuable bulb to naturalise 
in grass, woodlands, etc., ht. 5 ft per looo, 35/-; per 100, 4/- o 7 
amethystinus albus, a beautiful white variety of the above, ht. J ft ,, 6/6 i o 
azureus. See Muscari azureum, page 68. 
candicans. See Galtonia./iz.^ 37. 
X HYMENOCALLIS (ryw. Pancratium or Ismene), lovely bulbous plants for green- 
house, or in warm localities they may be planted outdoors, close to a south wall, top of bulb each. 
6 in. deep ; the flowers are of great beauty. 
Amancaes, the Golden-Yellow Peruvian Daffodil, a rare and handsome greenhouse 
plant, ht. I J to 2 ft 3 6 
calathina, the pearly sweet-smelling White Sea Daffodil, a lovely bulbous plant 
for greenhouse or outdoors, planted close to a south wall. Orders booked for sstpply in 
March and April, ready for potting or planting out per doz. 3/6 o 4 
X IMANTOPHYLLUM. See Clivia, 26. 
X INCARVILLEA Delavayi, a lovely Chinese plant, having umbels of large rose-coloured 
Gloxinia-shaped flowers and a graceful prostrate foliage, ht. 2 ft. ; it is quite hardy, but 
delights in a deep sandy well-drained soil and sunny situation ; excellent for the flower border, 
rock garden, or for pots Strong Flowering Roots, per doz. 5/6 o 6 
X grand iflora, a later introduction from China, bearing large deep rose-coloured flowers 
with golden throat, ht. i ft. It likes a dry sunny situation per doz. 4/6 o 5 
IRISES. 
These may be called the “ Orchids ” of the flower garden, their blossoms competing in richness 
and variety of colour with the choicest and the most beautiful Orchids. They should be extensively 
planted in flower and shrubbery borders, and naturalised ; a judicious selection will give a display of 
bloom from Christmas to August. See our Hardy Plant Catalogue for all kinds of Flag Irises. 
BARR’S ENGLISH IRISES. 
June to July-flowering. 
The Finest Collection Existing. 
These magnificent English Irises (I. xiphioldes) thrive in any ordinary garden soil. The earlier 
the planting, after beginning of September, the greater the success, although the bulbs may be put in as late 
as December. The varieties contained in our collection we have specially selected as being the finest 
and most distinct, and they will be found as strikingly beautiful in colour as many of the sumptuous Orchids 
of the hothouse. They flower from end of June to beginning of July, thus succeeding the Bearded Flag 
Irises and Spanish Irises. As cut flowers they take a first place. 
Barr’s Selections. j. d 
S each of 2 S magnificent varieties 21 o 
3 each of 25 „ 12 6 
5 each of 12 ,, 8/-& 12 6 
3 each of 12 „ $/- & 7 6 
