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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1907. 
ITALIAN EARLY HYACINTHS. 
Tliese bloom just after the White Roman Hyacinth, and are therefore valuable for succession. They 
are all of graceful beauty, and may be had in bloom in December and January. These Italian Hyacinths 
can easily be grown in bowls of pebbles and water or our prepared Fibre, shell, and charcoal 
mixture, and make a very pretty decoration for the greenhouse and sitting-room. per doz. 
s. d 
Blush, delicate blush-white flowers per too, 21/- 3 o 
Exira Large Bulbs 4 6 
Ivory White, producing elegant spikes of white bells with tube delicately tinged creamy 
blush, valuable for cutting and succeeding the While Roman Hyacinth per too, 14/6 2 o 
Shell-Pink, bearing double bells of elegant form, colour a charming shell-pink shaded 
blush-white, very beautiful. This variety will only bear very gentle forcing per too, 17/6 2 6 
Straw-coloured, a lovely hyacinth producing freely graceful spikes of pale chrome- 
yellow single flowers ; very beautiful when grown in bowls and vases per too, 17/6 2 6 
„ Extra Strong Bulbs ,, 25/- 3 6 
N.B. — The above are the best of the Italian Early Hyacinths : the Blue Roman Hyacinth 
is now no longer cultivated, and the Blue Italian Hyacinth is a coarse flower of little 
beauty which we cannot recommend to our customers, and we therefore do not offer it. 
HYACINTH -Grape, Starch, and Feathered. See Hlmca,vi, page 62. 
HYACINTHUS 
amethystinus, an elegant Alpine Hyacinth of the most beautiful amelhyat-blue ; 
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 1000, 45/- ; per 100, 5/- o 9 
amethystinus albus, a white variety of the above, very beautiful, hi. 4 ft. ... ,, 12/6 t 9 
azureus. .See Muscari, 62. 
candicans. ire Oaltonia./a^r 31. 
X HYMENOCALLIS (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 e-sch 
6 in. deep ; the flowers are of great beauty. " 
calathina, the pearly sweet-smelling White Sea Dafeodil, a lovely bulbous plant for 
greenhouse or outdoors, planted close to a south wall in early spring ; the flowers are of great 
beauty per 100, 25/-; per doz. 3/6 o 4 
Daphne, a hybrid of //. speciosa x H. calathina, the finest and Largest flowered of all the 
Hymenocallis, bearing immense umbels of pure white flowejs 7 6 
Harrisiana, flowers pure white and very fragrant per doz. 8/6 o 9 
See also Novelty List, page 6. 
X IMANTOPHYLLUM 
miniatum, orange-crimson flowers, in clusters 'X Handsome bulbous plants for stove ( 0, 6 
Cyrtanthiflorum, orange-coloured flowers, in clusters/ or warm greenhouse, \\t. 2 h. I3 6 
X INCARVILLEA Delavayi, a lovely Chinese plant, having large rose-coloured Gloxinia- 
shaped flowers, borne in umbels on a stout stalk 2 ft. high and a gracefully cut prostrate 
foliage ; it is quite hardy, but delights in a deep sandy, well-drained soil and sunny situation ; 
excellent for the flower border, rock garden, or for pots. First-Class Certificate R.M.S. 
Strong Flowering Roots, per 100, 55/- ; per doz. 7/6 o 9 
IRISES. 
These may be called the “ Orchids ” of the flower garden, their blossoms competing in richness 
and variety of colour with the choicest and the most beautiful Orchids. They should be extensively planted 
in (lower and shrubbery borders, and naturalised ; a judicious selection will give a display of bloom from 
Christmas to August. See our Hardy Plant Catalogue for all kinds of Flag Irises. 
BARR’S ENGLISH IRIS.— June- to July-floweringf. 
Iris Xiphioides -the Large-flowered Bulbous Iris of the Pyrenees. 
These magnificent Irises thrive in any ordinary garden soil. The earlier the planting, after 
beginning of September, the greater the success, although the bulbs may be put in as late as December. 
The varieties contained in our collection we have specially selected as being the finest and most 
distinct, and they will be found as strikingly beautiful in colour as the most sumptuous Orchids of the 
hothouse. They flower 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. 
