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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1914. 
xGRAND NEW AMERICAN GLADIOLI. 
These are mostly new hybrids raised in Canada by Mr H. H. Groff, and are remarkable for their tall 
vigorous growth and large handsome flowers, which embrace many fine new colours. At Kew Gardens 
these grand Gladioli have been quite a centre of attraction. Orders booked for su^tply in early spring. 
Plant outdoors March to April, or pot up in l''ebtuary. 
Gi'ofTs New Selected Blue and Heliotrope Shades, flowers large 
and beautiful, ranging from lilac and heliotrope to rich Pansy-blue per too, 75/- 10 6...1 o 
Groff’s Royal Purples, mostly handsome purples and dark Pansy-blues 
per too, 60/- 8 6...0 9 
Groff’s New Yellow Hybrids, mostly soft yellow, primrose and cream-coluuied 
shades with maroon or crimson lilotch, and containing a few good seifs ...per too, 45/- 6 0...0 7 
GKOfPs Selected Dsirk Hybrids, mostly rich dark velvety shades of scarlet, 
blood-crimson, luby, etc., some with a striking blotch, very handsome ...per lOO, 45/- 6 0...0 7 
Groff’s Mixed Colours, in many new and beautiful shades 55/- 7 6...0 8 
Special List of Choice New American Gladioli will be found in our 
Spring Bulb Catalogue. 
X GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS. 
The Larg:e-flowered Vermilion-Scarlet Gladiolus. 
This well-known handsome Gladiolus blooms just before the Gladiolus Gandavensis varieties, and is 
one of the most valuable for bedding. By successional plantings outdoors from end of March to May, 
a brilliant display of bloom may be had from middle of July to late autumn. A fine elTect may be 
produced by massing this Gladiolus with Galtonia candicans, the snowy white spikes of which to)) 
the Scarlet Gladioli; both bloom about the same time. p. ,00 p. doz. 
S. d. S. t( 
Qood Flowering corms per 1000, 70/- 7 6...1 3 
Extra Selected corms 10 6...1 6 
Very large corms 0...2 3 
X GLADIOLUS PRINCEPS. 
A magnificent showy Gladiolus of tall robust habit, bearing long handsome spikes of immense open 
flowers of a brilliant glowing scarlet, with snowy while stripe down centre of petal, and towards the centie 
a large cream-coloured blotch stippled crimson ; remarkably effective in the flower border. 
per 100, 25/- ; per doz. 3/6 
VARIOUS BEAUTIFUL GLADIOLI. 
Plant the corms from March to April. 
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xChlldsii, Mixed Hybrids, a fine robust race of Gladioli, resulting from a cross be- 
tween G. Nanceianus varieties and Lemoine’s Butterfly Gladioli, and blooming about 
the same lime. 1 he flowers are very large, and ])roduced on long sturdy spikes, and range 
in colour irom roses and pinks to reds and fiery scarlets ; valuable for grouping in herbaceous 
borders, ht. 3 to 5 ft per 100, 10/6 ; per doz. 1/6 — 
xprimulinus (Maid of the Mist), a rare and lovely species found growing in the 
neighbourhood ol the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, where the spray at times 
completely covers it. 1 he flowers, which are of a beautiful soft primrose-yellow, are of 
quaint hooded form and borne on spikes 2 lo 3 ft. high, from July to August. Easily 
grown in pots in a cold greenhouse or out of doors in warm localities; while in full growth 
the plants should be given a liberal supply of water per doz. 10/6 l o 
X primulinus hybrids, a most lovely new strain of Gladioli of the same light graceful 
habit as G. primulinus, but colours ranging from yellow to salmon, rosy buff, apricot, pale 
copper and other delicate art shades, ht. 2J ft per doz. 9/- o 10 
^ GUORIOSA (Glory Lilies), very Ijeautiful bulbous warm greenhouse or stove climbers with 
brilliantly coloured flower.s. 1 rained on globes or wires the blooms are seen to advantage. 
The roots should be grown in a compost of loam and peat. 
Leopold!, a fine new Glory Lily from the Congo, producing an abundance of beautiful 
scll-goldcn-yellow flowers ; a grand warm greenhouse climber 4 6 
Rothschildiana, the true original species from Uganda and the Jinest of all, with 
flowers measuiiiig nearly 6 inches across, colour crimson-lake, the perianth segments being 
margined gold, anthers golden 
SUperba (The Malabar Glory Lily), bearing brilliant rich orange-red flowers; remarkably 
showy 
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