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EARLY ITALIAN AND FRENCH HYACINTHS. 
These bloom just after the White Roman Hyacinth, and ate therefore valuable for succession. They 
are all of graceful beauty, and may be had in bloom in December and January. They can easily be grown 
in bowls of pebbles and water or our prepared Peat-ftbre, shell, and charcoal mixture, and make 
a very pretty decoration for the greenhouse and sitting-room. 
Blush Whit©, producing elegant spikes of white bells with lube delicately tinged cieamy 
blush, valuable for cutting and succeeding the li'/iUe Roman Hyacinth per too, 17/6 2 6 
Primrose, a lovely Hyacinth producing freely graceful spikes of pale chrome-yellow single 
flowers ; very beautiful when grown in bowls and vases; very scarce 5 ° 
Shell-Pink, bearing semi-double bells of elegant form, colour a charming shell-pink shaded 
blush-white, very beautiful. This variety will only bear very gentle foremg per too, 25/- 3 0 
HYACINTH, NEW EARLY “ROSY DAWN.” 
Valuable new early-flowering variety, having the light graceful habit of the Roman Hyacinth, but with 
longer and larger spikes of a pietty light rose-pink ; it can easily be had in bloom by January ist. 
per too, 55/- ; per doz. 7/6 ; each, Srf. 
I^YACINTHS, many-flowered, bulbs specially prepared for producing seven to ten spikes of 
blocm each. Strongly 1 ecommended. See Novelty hiBt,/iage 14. 
HYACINTH-Grape, Starch, and Feathered. Muscari, 67 nwrf 6S. 
HYACINTHUS. Plant September to November. 
amethystinus, an elegant Alpine Hyacinth, producing from the end of Ma) to early 
June elegant spikes of beautiful amelhyst-hlue flowers ; charming in pots, and clumps in flower 
borders, or as edgings, and a valuable bulb to naturalise in grass, woodlands, etc., ht. 4 ft. 
’ ^ per icoo, 35/- ; per too, 4/- o 7 
amethvstinus albus, a beautiful white variety, bearing graceful spikes of white flowers, 
ht. 4 ft. per too, 7/6 i 3 
azureus. See Muscari azureum, fage 67. 
HYACINTHUS candicans. .Src Galtonia./a.gd 37. 
X HYMENOCAULIS (,syn. Pancratium or Ismene), lovely bulbous plants for green- 
house, or in warm localities they may be planted outdoors, close to a south wall, top of bulb ^ ^ 
6 in. deep ; the flowers are of great beauty. 
Amancees, the Golden-Yellow Peruvian Daffodil, a rare and handsome greenhouse ^ ^ 
calathina, the pearly sweet-smelling White Sea Daffohii,, a lovely ^ 
for greenhouse or outdoors, planted close to a south wall. Orders booked fo) sutply t 
March and April, ready ftr potting or planting out per aoz. 5/0 
X IMANTOPHYLLUM. See ClMa,, page 26. 
X INCARVILLEA Delavayi, a lovely Chinese plant, having umbels of large rose-coloured 
Gloxinia-shaped flowers and graceful prostrate foliage, hi. 2 ft ; it is 
delights in a deep sandy wedl-drained soil and sunny suuation ;^exccllent for the flower jmrder^ ^ ^ 
rock garden, or for pots. First-Ci.ass Certificaie R.H S 1 •• / 3 
„ Extra Strong Roofs „ 3/6 o 4 
xerandiflora, a later’introduction from China, bearing large deep 
® with golden throat, ht. I ft. It likes a dry sunny situation. ^ ^ o 5 
IRISES. 
These mav be called the “ Orchids ” of the flower garden, their blossoms compiling in richness 
and varte?y of^obur wdth the choicest and the most beautiful Orchids. They should be ex enstvely 
planted ii/ flower and shrubbery borders, and naturalised; a pV" ‘ ^ ^ 
bloom from Christmas to August. See our Hardy Plant Catalogue Cor all kinds of Flag Iiises. 
BARR’S GRAND ENGLISH IRISES. 
June to July-flowering. 
These madnifleent English Irises (I. xiphioides) thrive in any ordinary garden soil. 7 he tar/ter 
the tlantino- after be«inning of Settember, the greater the success, although the bulbs may be put in as late 
fs ijfcSlr -^ The^r^^^ iA our%olleclion we have specially selected as being the fines 
and most distinct, and they will be found as strikingly beautiful in colour as many of the j 
ofthflfothouse. They floLr from end of June to beginning of July, thus succeeding the Bearded Flag 
Irises and Spanish Irises. As cut flowers they take a first place. 
Barr’s Selections. ^ 
5 each of 25 magnifleent varieties ^ 
3 each of 25 >> %!-Sl 12 6 
5 each of 12 ,, , ^ _ 5 
3 each of 12 , , 
