BARR & SONS, 11, 12 & 13 Kins Street, Covent Garden, London. 35 
GLADIOLUS GANDAVENSIS— £-OK/(«««n'. p. ,oo p. doz. 
Barr’s Choicest Strain, in mixture, bearing bold spikes of large hand- s. d. s. d 
some flowers in great variety of rich and brilliant colours ; a grand strain iS 6. ..2 8 
Fine Mixture, embracing many rich and varied colours, with bold spikes of large 
handsome flowers to 6...I 6 
White Lady, a grand and valuable introduction, being the only good pure white Gladiolus 
Gandavensis yet raised. The flowers, which are large and of fine substance, have the lower petals 
faintly marked with very delicate pale yellow, which enhances the beauty of the flower 
per doz. 15/-; each 1/6 
GLADIOLI, Rare and Beautiful Species. 
Of the species offered below, Alatus should be planted under a south wall, or in sunny warm spots 
on rockwork. The other species are quite hardy. These beautiful Gladioli flower April to June. 
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alatus, a remarkably beautiful and showy dwarf species with large elegant lemon-coloured 
flowers, broadly tipped brick-red, ht. 8 in per too, 21/- ; per doz. 3/- o 4 
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. | ft. ; recommended for pot-culture. Cape pit, or sunny nooks on rockwork 
per doz. 7/6 o 8 
X floribundus, a beautiful July-flowering species, white with violet flaking, ht. 3 ft. 
per ICO, ro/6; per doz. t/6 o 2 
xprinceps. Novelty List, 6 ,, 12/6 i 3 
SC£etum, rosy red with white markings, charming species, ht. 2 ft. per too, 6/6 ,, r/- — 
tristis (syn. spiralis), bearing in summer graceful spikes of large greenish white sweet- 
scented flowers, prized for cutting per too, 12/6 ; per doz. 1/9 o 2 
1^" All other Gladioli species, in commerce, can be supplied if required. 
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!. See Novelty List, page 6. 
Rothschildiana. (new), a very beautiful species from Uganda, and \!a<s finest of all, with 
flowers measuring nearly 6 inches across, colour crimson-lake, the perianth segments being 
margined gold, anthers golden 
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 
virescens (syn. Methonica Plantii), the Mozambique Lily, flowers rich orange and 
yellow 
GLORY OF THE SNOW. See Chionodoxa, page 21. 
GLOXINIA. 
X Barr’s Exhibition Named Varieties per doz. 24/-, 30/- & 36/- 
xGood Named Varieties per doz. 12/6 
X Barr’s Beautiful Seedling Varieties, Mixed „ 6/6 
GRAPE HYACINTH. See Muscarl. 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. 
Kalbreyeri, a grand plant with immense heads of numerous flowers which are brilliant 
vermilion with golden anthers, very showy, ht. I ft 
Katharinae, a magnificent plant of noble bearing, with large heads of brilli.ant or.ange- 
scarlet flowers, ht. 2 ft 
Nelson i, a fine distinct species, having soft rosy pink flowers with yellow stamens, ht. I ft. 
puniceus, orange-scarlet, ht. i ft., each 2/6; coccineus, scarlet, ht. i ft 
HELLEBORUS NIGER Type (The White Christmas Rose), one of the most useful 
varieties, bearing pure white flowers from December to March 
strong dumps full of flowet^buds, per doz. 15/- 
altifolius true {syn. H. niger maximus), a very distinct and now rare (^hristmas Rose, 
producing in November and December very large flowers on long stalks, white tinged pink, 
or, if opened under glass, pure white, foliage dark green, stem red speckled per doz. 25/- 
angustifolius true {syn. luvernis) (St. Brigid’s Christmas Rose). This is certainly 
the finest pure white large-flowered Christmas Rose, and one of the hardiest and best growers ; 
the foliage is of a clear fresh green, and the snowy white flowers are produced from January 
to March per doz- 25/- 
Madame Fourcade, a fine white intermediate-flowering variety, coming in between 
altifolitts ow\ type sfrong’ c/i/mps, per doz. 25/- 
HELLEBORUS ORIENTALIS. See Hardy Plant Catalogue, free on application. 
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