BARR'S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 1914. 
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A Few Fine Novelties and Specialities 
In Bulbs and Tubers for 1914. 
Those bulbs and tubers marked thus x ripen late in the year and are sent out from 
November to March. All other bulbs, etc., are ready for despatch in September. Orders 
which embrace earlier and later ripening bulbs, etc., will be executed therefore in two parts. 
each— 5. d 
AMARYLLIS Belladonna. Parker!, a very handsome new hybrid of Amaryllis Bella- 
donna crossed with Brunsvigia Josephinse, producing a handsome umbel of i8 or more ^ 
rose-coloured flowers, deepening with age and slightly tinged yellow towards centre ; it 
makes a handsome pot plant 5 6 
ANEMONE 
“St. Brigid,” an extra fine strain of these lovely Poppy Anemones, flowers very large, 
mostly semi-double, with finely divided petals, and of the most brilliant and varied shades 
of colour, all having a handsome blue-black central boss ; ht. : ft. ( fVe send out only 
healthy young flowering roots giving the best results) per too, Io/6 ; per doz. l/6 — 
“Cornflower,” a very beautiful new variety with elegant fully double flowers of a dark 
amethyst-blue per too, 21/- ; per doz. 3/- o 4 
Perle Angevine, a very beautiful Chrysanthemum-flowered Anemone with large 
pure white double and semi-double flowers, ht. i ft per too, 18/6 ; per doz. 2/8 o 3 
St. Beivo, a beautiful new race of Anemones, osiginating from the large-flowered Anemone 
fulgens aldborohensis ; the flowers, which are produced from early March to end of April, 
are large and graceful and range in colour from rose, salmon, and brick-red to dark carmine 
and sometimes white, ht. I ft per too, 32/6 ; per doz. 4/6 — 
ASTILBE Arendsi — Beautiful New Hybrids. Very lovely and effective hardy border 
plants, for July and August decoration, ht. 2 to 3 ft. 
X Avalanche, having elegant foliage and noble plumes of snowy while flowers larger than 
those of most varieties ; a fine pot plant and forcer per doz. lo/6 i o 
X Ceres, producing an abundance of bushy heads of deep pink flowers ,, 10/6 i o 
X Venus, producing very elegttnt pyramidal spikes of deep rose-coloured flowers ,, 15/- i 6 
CROCUS, Bare and Beautiful Species, autumn, winter, and spring-flowering, gems for the 
rock garden and pots. Special descriptive list on application. 
CROCUS Bleu Celeste and Margot, two lovely pale blue large-flowered Spring bedding 
crocuses, see page 28. 
FREESIA.— Beautiful New Varieties, strongly recommended as pot plants and to cut for vases. 
Their colours are bright and attractive and all are delightfully fragrant. 
Canari, flowers very large, pale soft chrome-yellow shading to primrose with golden 
markings on lower petals, very beautiful per doz. 15/- i 6 
Dainty, flowers a pretty rose-lilac shading to white towards centre with bright yellow blotch 
on lower petal per doz. 21/- 2 o 
Heliotrope, flowers of a lovely soft heliotrope-lilac colour ,, 21/- 2 o 
Mauve Ideal, flowers very large, delicate silvery lavender, tube and centre white coloured 
chrome at base, centre golden-blotched, very beautiful 3 ^ 
Robinetta, flowers large, rosy lake with white throat darkly veined and yellow centre ; 
the richest coloured of this type 2 6 
Barr’S Beautiful New Hybrids, containing a great variety of colours— rose, pink, 
ruby, salmon, coppery bronze, apricot, yellow, primrose, lavender, etc. 
per too, 21/- ; per doz. 3/- o 4 
GALANTHUS Elwesii, cultivated bulbs, blooming a little later than the collected bulbs, 
and having larger and more solid flowers. A grand Giant Snowdrop for flower borders, rock 
garden or pots Estra strong bulbs, per 1,000, 60, 1-; per too, 6/6 ; per doz. i/- — 
„ „ Monster bulbs „ 7/6 ; ,, 1/3 — 
