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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1906. 
» GLADIOLUS CHILDSII, New Giant-flowered. 
Max Leichtlin’s Hybrid Gladioli (Hybrids of G. Gandavensis x G. Saundersii). This race 
of Gladioli was first raised by Herr Max Leiclitlin, of Baden-Baden, and has been still further 
improved by Mr. Childs, of New York. There is less range of colour than in G. Nanceianus and 
G. letnoinei, but the lloweis are larger and the plants taller and more robust. \Ye can recommend 
them specially for grouping in herbaceous and shrubbery borders. 
3 each of 18 named varieties 24/- I 3 each of 12 named varieties 15/- & 25/- 
1 ,. 18 ., 8/6 I 1 „ 12 „ „ 5/6 & 9 /- 
Finest Mixed Hybrids, recommended for beds and grouping in borders. ..per too, 15/- ; per doz. 2/3 
( A descriptive list of G. Nanceianus and G. Childsii will be found in our Spring Bulb Catalogue.') 
x GLADIOLUS MIKADO, a beautiful new break fiom Gladiolus Brenchleyensis, having the same long 
handsome spikes, but colour a pale blush-rose shading to cream, with lower petal striped crimson on 
a primrose-coloured ground per 100, 15/-; per doz. 2/3 ; each 3 d. 
x GLADIOLUS EXCELSIOR, a very beautiful new strain, the result of crossing some of the best 
varieties of Gladiolus Gandavensis with Gladiolus Nanceianus. the flowers are very large and open, 
and range in colour from salmon-scarlet to soft blush-rose, with scarlet and cream-coloured blotch 
or crimson blotch on a white ground, lit. 3 to 3/ ft. 
Beautiful Mixed Hybrids, per 100, 10/6; per doz. 1/6 
GLADIOLI, Rare and Beautiful Species. 
Of the species offered below, Alains should be planted under a south wall, or in sunny warm spots 
on rockwork. The other species are quite hardy. Saundersi plant in Spring, the others in Autumn. 
These beautiful Gladioli flower April to June, except Dracocephalus and Saundersi, which bloom July 
to August. each— s. d 
alatus, a remarkably beautiful and showy dwarf species with large elegant lemon-coloured 
flowers, broadly tipped brick-red, ht. 8 in per doz. 4/6 o 5 
x blandus, var. albiflorus, a very beautiful Cape species, flowers with elegantly waved 
petals, varying from ivory-white to white tipped rose, with a slight blotch of primrose in the 
centre, ht. J ft. ; recommended for pot-culture, Cape pit, or sunny nooks on rockwork 
per doz. 7/6 o 8 
crispiflorus major, a beautiful Armenian species, with rosy claret-coloured flowers, 
marked white and lilac per doz. 2/6 o 3 
x dracocephalus, a curious and interesting species, flowers finely speckled reddish brown 
on a golden-yellow ground, August-flowering, ht. I3 ft per doz. 2/6 o 3 
x floribundus, a beautiful July-flowering species, white with violet .flaking, ht. 3 ft. 
per 100, 10/6; per doz. 1/6 o 2 
grandis, bearing in summer graceful spikes of reddish brown speckled flowers, delightfully 
fragrant, ht. ij ft per doz. 8/6 o 9 
imperialis, a veiy showy July-flowering Gladiolus, producing bold spikes of large open 
flowers, carmine heavily blotched blood-crimson, ht. 32 in Crop failed — 
xprinceps. See Novelty List , page 6 per doz. 15/- 1 6 
x Saundersi, bright salmon-scarlet, lower petals white, spotted scarlet, ht. 2 ft. ... ,, 10/6 1 o 
segeium, rosy red with white markings, charming species, ht. 2 ft. per 100, 10/6 ,, 1/6 o 2 
tristis (syn. spiralis), bearing in summer graceful spikes of large greenish white sweet- 
scented flowers, prized for cutting per 100, 15/- : per doz. 2/3 o 3 
vinulus, white, with beautiful carmine markings on lower petals, very lovely 
per too, 10/6 ; ,, 1/6 o 2 
1 each of the above Gladiolus species, 5/-. 
x GLORIOSA (Glory Lilies), very beautiful bulbous warm greenhouse or stove climbers with 
brilliantly coloured flowers. Trained on globes or wires the blooms are seen to advantage. 
The roots should be grown in a compost of loam and peat. 
Leopold i. See Novelty List, page 6 . 
Rothschildiana (new), a very beautiful species from Uganda, and the finest of all , with 
flowers measuring nearly 6 inches across, colour crimson-lake, the perianth segments being 
margined gold, anthers golden 5 6 
superba (The Malabar Glory Lily), bearing showy rich orange-red flowers; when trained 
on a globe or along a wire its splendid blossoms are seen to the best advantage 3 6 
virescens (syn. Methonica Plantii), the Mozambique Lily, flowers rich orange and 
yellow 2 3 
GLORY OF THE SNOW. See Chionodoxa, page 20. 
x GLOXINIA, Barr’s Exhibition Named Varieties per doz. 24/-, 30/- & 36/- — 
- Good Named Varieties per doz. 12/6 — 
x Barr’s Beautiful Seedling Varieties, Mixed ,, 6/6 — 
GRAPE HYACINTH. See Muscari. GUERNSEY LILY. See Nerine sarniensis. 
H/EMANTHUS (The Blood-flower), it would not be possible to overrate the grand effect of 
these noble plants, whether grown in the greenhouse or stove. 
Andromeda, a fine hybrid of //. Katherinee x H. magnificus, bearing the largest flowers 
of all, and forming heads measuring 6 to 8 inches across; colour rich salmon-red, June 
flowering ; of easy culture in a warm greenhouse 7 6 
