BARR & SONS, 11, 12 & 13 Kins Street, Oovent Garden, London. 11 
Hardy Spring Carpeting and Bedding Plants 
For Autumn Planting. 
To associate with Spring-Flowering Bulbs in beds and borders or the wild garden. 
For Spring decoration in association with bulbs the following plants will be found most useful. By their use 
as a groundwork or edging the most beautiful harmonies of colour may be obtained. Few sights in Spring 
arc more beautiful than masses of the gold, white, and blue of the Alyssum, Arabis, and Aubrietia associated with 
breadths of Daffodils, Scillas, Muscaris, etc., or For^et-me-Nots {Myosotis) and Golden Polyanthuses jningHng 
with Daffodils or with gorgeous and stately Darwin Tulips, etc. The Acaenas, Arenarla balearica, Mossy 
Saxlfragas and Thymes make beautiful carpets of foliage for the smaller and daintier spring bulbous flowers, like 
Narcissi Cyclamineus, Minimus and Trlandrus, also Chlonodoxas, Small Crocus Species, etc. 
AC.^N A (New Zealand Bur), producing dense close carpets of evergreen foliage, rapid growers. each— s. d 
BuCha.na.niy foliage beautiful soft pea-green, ht. 2 in per doz. 5/- o 6 
I nernnISt producing close cushion of bronzy grey-green foliage ; effective rapid carpeting plant „ 5/- o 6 
mlCfOphylla* very close growing small bronze foliage covered in summer and autumn with crimson 
spiny balls ; a good rock plant, i in per doz. 5/- o 6 
Novae-Zealandlse* foliage bronzy green, spreading rapidly, 2 in ,, 5/- o 6 
ACHI LLEA tomentosa* a fine dwarf subject for permanent edging or rock work, dark green prostrate 
persistent foliage with heads of golden flowers in spikes 6 in. high per doz. 5/- o 6 
AJUCA reptans atro-purpurcai foliage rich purple-bronze, dwarf spreading habit, 6 in. ,, 5/- o 6 
ALYSSUIVI saxatlle compactum (Gold Dust), covered during May with sheets of golden-yellow 
flowers, ht. J ft per loo, 21/-; per doz. 3/6 o 4 
.. fl.pl., a beautiful new doublC^flowered form of the Gold Dust, producing masses 
of brilliant golden-yellow flowers, J ft. Award of Merit R.H.S o 6 
ANEIVIONE Pulsatilla (The Pasque Flower), beautiful violet-coloured flowers of large size, flowers 
and foliage covered with long silken hairs ; the seed heads are also very handsome and prized for cutting, 
early summer-flowering, J ft per 100, 25/- ; per doz. 3/6 o 4 
ANTENNARIA tomentosa (Snow In Summer), persistent close grey foliage, fine bedder, I in. „ 3/6 o 4 
ARABIS alhida superba (White Rock Cress), covered during April and May with sheets of white 
flowers, ht. J ft. per 100,21/-; per doz. 3/6 o 4 
,, „ fl. pi., covered with sprays of double pure white sweet-scented flowers, ht. 3 ft. ; a 
lovely subject for associating with Tulips per 100, 21/- ; per doz. 3/6 o 4 
ARENARIA balearica (Creeping Sand Wort), producing a perfectly dose green carpet studded with 
numerous white starry flowers, ht. i in. ; a valuable plant for rapidly covering bare rock per doz. 5/- o 6 
ARMERIA inaritima Laucheana, valuable for permanent edgings, dense compact deep green 
tufts, studded with small spikes of crimson flowers, J ft per doz. 3/6 o 4 
„ „ alba, forming neat tufts studded with white flowers, I ft „ 3/004 
AUBRIETIA (Rock Cress), valuable for associating with the golden Alyssum and white Arabis, lit. 3 to 4 in. 
Bl-ldesmald, a lovely new variety, raised at our Nurseries, soft blush-coloured flowers ..per doz. 5/- o 6 
Crimson King, deep crimson, showy 5/. o 6 
Dr. IVIulCS, deep violet-purple 5/. o 6 
Fire King, rich crimson ,, 5/. o 6 
graeca, selected form, soft pale lavender self, good close habit .. .. „ s/- o 6 
Lavender, clear lavender-blue, beautiful cool colour 5/. q 6 
LeiChtlinI, deep rose „ 5/. o 6 
ivioerheimi, rose-coloured 5/- o 6 
IVIrS* E. rVI . CrOSfleld, large flowers of a rich violet-blue, very free, <rAr/r<i 5/. o 6 
Peter Barr, rich glowing purple ,, 5/. o 6 
Royal Purple, rich purple, good 5/. o 6 
AURICULA, mixed hardy border varieties, a fine strain of our own, containing a charming 
variety of colour ; a good hardy race of Auriculas per 100, 32/- 5 per doz. 4/6 o 6 
CERASTIUM arvense compactum, very close prostrate green foliage with a mass of white 
blossoms in early summer; a charming plant for covering banks and mounds and to 
naturalise per doz. 4/6 o 6 
„ tomentosum (Snow In Summer), foliage silvery grey, flowers white, produced at tlie 
end of May, ht. 4 in per doz. 4/6 o 6 
CHEIRANTHUS Alllonl, an exceedingly showy rock and border plant, producing from spring to 
autumn brilliant orange-coloured flowers, i ft o 6 
DAISIES, Rob Roy {syn. Rubens), crimson-scarlet per too, 10/6; per doz. 1/6 — 
Snowball, pure white „ 10/6; „ 1/6 — 
Giant Flowered Double Rose, flowers of immense size ai/-; „ 3/- — 
i> >1 )i White „ 21/-; „ 3/- — 
