6 BARR’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 1906. 
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FREESIA Armstrong^, the Pink Freesia, flowers pretty bright rosy carmine with s - d 
white centre and yellow throat, very free flowering per doz. 42/- 4 o 
Chapman ii, a beautiful new hybrid Freesia, a cross between F. aurea and F. refracta 
alba , bearing flowers nearly the size of F. refracta alba , and varying from primrose to canary 
with golden shading and brilliant orange blotch, delicately fragrant 3 6 
refracta alba, The true Pure White variety, bearing sprays of deliciously scented 
snowy white flowers, highly prized for cutting, 1 ft. ( The bulbs of this variety are a little 
smaller than the common F. refracta , but they produce more bloom and give greater 
satisfaction),...., per 100, 6/6; per doz. j/- — 
Tubergeni (F. refracta alba, true, x F. Armstrongi), a lovely new hybrid with flowers 
the size of Freesia refracta alba , of a delicate rose-lilac shade with white throat and base of 
tube bronzy gold, deliciously scented 5 6 
GERBERA Jamesoni (Barberton Daisy), a very handsome plant from South Africa, 
bearing large showy flowers, resembling giant daisies, colour fiery orange-scarlet. Suitable 
for very hot sheltered sunny gardens, or may be grown as a cool greenhouse plant. 
per doz. 25/- & 36/- ; 2/6 & 3 6 
GLADIOLUS princeps, the largest-flowered and perhaps the most showy Gladiolus ever 
raised. The flowers are of great size, very open, and beautifully formed, colour brilliant 
deep scarlet with white stripe down centre of petal ; remarkably effective in the flower-border 
per doz. 15/- 1 6 
GLORIOSA Leopoldi, a fine new Glory Lily from the Congo, producing an abundance of 
beautiful self-golden-yellow flowers ; a grand stove climber to 6 
HELONIOPSIS breviscapa, a charming little plant introduced by us from Japan, pro- 
ducing out-of-doors in February 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.H.S. See coloured plate in “ The Garden," fitly 22nd, 1905 2 6 
HEPATICA 
Double White, a rare and beautiful variety with pure white very double flowers. 
First-Class Certificate B.H.S 5 
Double Blue, a favourite old garden plant, but scarce 
HYMENOCALLIS 
amancxs, the Golden-Yellow Peruvian Daffodil, a rare and handsome 
greenhouse bulbous plant, ht. 1 5 to 2 ft 
INCARVILLEA 
Delavayi, a lovely hardy Chinese plant with gracefully cut foliage, and producing in 
early summer sturdy spikes of large Gloxinia-like flowers ranging from brilliant rose to rose- 
carmine, with golden-yellow throat, ht. 2/ to 3 ft. It likes a sunny situation 
per 100, 55/- ; per doz. 7/6 
grandiflora, flowers a little larger than those of I. Delavayi and deeper in colour, deep 
rose to carmine with golden-yellow throat, beautiful, ht. 2 ft 
IRIS 
galatica, a very pretty species allied to Iris persica, having silvery grey standards shaded 
porcelain and falls blotched purple ; charming on rockwork per 100, 2l/- ; per doz. 3/- 
lupceng, a handsome hybrid raised by Sir Michael Foster from I. lupina and I. Cengialti, 
flowers large with lavender-purple standards and falls, elegantly waved at margin 
Monspur, beautiful new tall hybrid Irises, specially adapted for the water’s side. Seepage 46. 
pur-sind, a pretty free-blooming hybrid of /. persica 
put puna and /. Sittdjarensis, producing dwarf plants 
covered with rosy purple flowers shaded blue, ht. 4 to 
5 in. ; charming in pots or on rockwork... per doz. 15/- 
Sibirica. Blue King, a very handsome new variety 
from Japan, having large and well-formed flowers of a 
fine clear blue, free bloomer and equally good for flower 
border or water’s side, ht. 3 ft per doz. 7/6 
sibirica Snow Queen an exquisite new hardylris, 
flowers of a snowy whiteness large and well formed, 
produced in great abundance, foliage light and graceful, 
ht. 3 ft.; agent for flower border or water’s side. Award 
of Merit R.H.S., June 24th, 1902 per doz. 15/- 
persica Heldreichi (syn. stenophylla), 
the most beautiful of the Persica section of Irises. 
The flowers are of a lovely lavender shade, with velvety 
violet falls reticulated white on the upper part, and 
with yellow crest, ht. 4 in. First-Class Certificate 
R.H.S. This lovely Iris should be freely grown in pots 
and pans for indoor decoration, as well as in the rock 
iris persica heldreichi garden, associated with the Winter Aconite, etc. 
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