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BARR & SONS, 11, 12 & 13 Kin£ Street, Covent Garden, London. 
; MONTBRETIA, a family of most decorative hardy 
bulbous plants of elegant growth, and producing freely 
in early August graceful spikes of gorgeously coloured 
flowers, which are of the greatest value for cutting, 
lasting long in water and mixing well with all kinds of 
foliage. They grow freely in any ordinary flower-border 
enriched with manure, but prefer a sunny situation. As 
pot-plants they are charmingly graceful. Plant outdoors 
November to March, cover the earlier plantings lightly 
with litter. 
Pottsii, graceful branched spikes 
of medium-sized brilliant vermilion- 
scarlet flowers remarkably showy, r- 
ht. 2 ft 3 ° 
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Pottsii superba, brilliant 
glowing vermilion, inner part of 
flower a rich golden colour, ht. 
ft 
crocosmsefiora, elegant 
branched spikes of large showy 
flowers, brilliant red shaded golden, 
a grand flower for cutting, ht. 
2j ft 
crocosmaeflora aurea, large golden-yellow flowers, beautiful, ht. 2 ft.... 
,, Bouquet Parfait, deep yellow, shaded vermilion, very showy, 
ht. 2 ft 
,, Drap d’or, rich deep golden, shaded apricot-orange, /a*, ht. ijft. 35 
,, Eldorado, flowers rich deep orange-yellow, fine, ht. 3 ft 40 
„ Etoile de Feu, one of the most brilliant, a remarkably striking 
flower, large and of an intense deep glowing vermilion, shaded 
orange-scarlet, with a golden centre and golden anthers, ht. 3 ft. ... 
„ Piuie d’or, large rich apricot-orange, shaded golden-yellow, tall 
and handsome, and valuable to bed with crocosnuejlora, ht. 2§- ft. ... 35 
„ Solfatara, flowers delicate primrose-yellow, foliage shaded bronze, 
rather late, valuable for succession, ht. ft 
„ Sunbeam (syn. Rayon d’or), large flowers, deep golden, shaded 
apricot-orange, with crimson central ring, ht. 2^ ft 
Talisman, rich vermilion, shaded orange, late, and valuable for 
succession, ht. I5 ft 
Transcendant, very large open flowers, orange-red, shading to 
golden and vermilion, ht. I5 ft 
,, mixed hybrids, containing many beautiful and showy colours 
12 each of the foregoing 13 named varietieB, 7/6; 23 each, 13/6. 
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X MONTBRETIA— Bfrand new hybrids, all fine border plants and prized for cutting, 
/^nneau d’Or, bearing broad-petalled flowers measuring over 2 inches across, brilliant 
orange-yellow with velvety purple base and light yellow centre, buds rich dark red, rf 
ht. 2j ft o S 
ConjfO, very rich dark orange-red, handsome, ht. 2 J ft per 100, 25/- ; ,, 3 /° ° 4 
CrCBSUS, large handsome flowers of a rich orange-yellow, ht. 2 ft. ,, 7/6 ; ,, 1/3 o 2 
Fire Kin^, a very showy variety with flowers of the form of Crocosmcs/lora, but of the 
most vivid scarlet, ht. 2 ft 1°°. 8/6 1 per doz. 1/4 o 2 
George Davison, a fine variety, very large handsome rich golden-yellow flowers, 
produced on long branching spikes, ht. 3J ft per 100, 15/-; per doz. 2/3 o 3 
Germania, growing nearly 4 ft. high and producing a profusion of graceful spikes, 
clothed with large expanded flowers, glowing orange-red with blood-ie.l centre 
per too, 15/- ; per doz. 2/3 O 3 
l^0|,0^ard, resembling somewhat George Davison, but blooming a month later, with large 
bright golden-yellow flowers on slender stems, ht. 3 Certificate of Merit Shrews- 
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