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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1907. 
IXIA. — The A'Oican Corn Lily. 
A most graceful plant, bearing on wiry stems 15 to 21 inches high long loose racemes of bloom 
of remarkably rich and varied colours. All have a brilliant dark centre, and in the sun’s rays present 
a picture of gorgeous beauty. 
Culture in Pots. — From October to January plant five or six bulbs in a four- or five-inch pot, 
using a compost of turfy loam, leaf soil, and silver sand. Make the soil firm about the bulbs, and 
plunge the pots, up to the rim only, in ashes in a cold pit or frame, or under a south wall. Until a 
little top growth has been made no water should be given, and then only sparingly at first. When the 
plants are in growth, the lights should be left off except during wet or frosty weather. Early in 
February, or when sufficient growth has been made, remove the plants to the greenhouse, keep close to 
the glass, and carefully attend to the watering. 
Culture Outdoors. — Plant from November to January, at a depth of three inches, and the bulbs 
two inches apart, on raised beds, in a prepared light loamy soil, in a sunny situation, protected if possible 
from cold east and northerly winds. When planting cover the bulbs with coarse sand. A covering of 
straw, litter, heather, or other light material, will protect the early top growth from frosty winds but 
it should be removed in March. ^ ^ 
6 each of 20 splendid varieties 10 
I >> 20 „ ,, j g 
® ” ^2 ,, ,, 2/6 & 3 6 
®^*****® ** Rainbow” Mixture of Ixias in great variety of gorgeous colours, for filling beds 
and massing in sunny borders per 1000, 25/- ; per too, 3/- ; per doz. (>d. 
l®“ The following varieties of Ixias are the most distinct and beautiful in cultivation. 
p. xoo p. doz. 
Beauty of Norfolk, canary, 
centre black per looo, 35/- 
Bucepha.luS| rich claret-colour, 
beautiful per 1000, 35/- 
Conqueror, yellow, shaded red 
per 1000, 35/- 4 
Crateroides, rich cerise-scarlet, 
early, and greatly valued for cutting 6 
Donnatello, large, flowers brick- 
scarlet, brown centre, |a most lovely 
colour 12 
Elvira, French grey, violet centre... 8 
Emperor of China, lich 
yellow, centre black, a grand 
variety 2i 
Erubescens major, deep 
rose-carmine, black centre, beautiful 
Excelsior, large, handsome 
crimson-scarlet per lOOo, 30/- 
Golden Drop, golden-yellow, 
dark centre per 1000, 30/- 
Humbert, very large, coppery 
rose, black centre, beautiful and 
distinct per 1000, 35/- 
4 0...0 7 
4 0...0 7 
.0 7 
6... I 
6... I 
•3 o 
7 6... I 
3 60 
3 6...0 6 
4 0...0 7 
p. 100 p. doz. 
s. d. s, d 
La Favorite, primrose, crimson 
centre per 1000, 30/- 3 6...0 6 
Lady Slade, beautiful rose-pink, 
carmine centre 6 
Longiflora, See Morphixia, 
page 62. 
Magnifica, handsome, rich deep 
yellow, chocolate centre 
Magnum Bonum, large, white 
with blue centre per 1000, 30/- 
Nitens, intense deep magenta, 
handsome 
Prsestans, ruby-crimson, beautiful 
per 1000, 35/- 
Queen of Roses, beautiful 
bright rose, large double flowers ... 
Viridiflora (The Green Ixia), 
flowers sea-green, with black centre, 
distinct and beautiful, per 1000, 75/- 8 o...t 
Vulcan, orange-red, black centre 
per 1000, 35/- 
White Queen, the largest pure 
white Ixia, with velvety crimson 
centre per 1000, 35/- 
6... I 
8 6... I 
3 6...0 
7 6... I 
4 0...0 7 
7 6... I 3 
4 0...0 7 
4 o.. o 7 
IXIOLIRION tataricum (Pallasi), an elegant hardy bulbous plant, bearing umbels of beautiful 
deep-blue tubular flowers in May and June, thriving in any good light soil and an open dry sunny 
sttiution, ht. ij ft per ,00, 8/6 ; per doz. 1/3 
JONQUILS, Sweet-Scented, always prized for the graceful sweet-scented flowers they produce 
in May. For indoor decoration plant three to six bulbs in a 4- or 5-inch pot, plunge in a cold 
frame, and when in bud bring indoors. If planted also outdoors and treated the same as Daffodils 
a long succession may be maintained. per doz —j 'd 
Single Jonquil, rich full yellow per 1000, 25/-; per too, 2/9 o 5 
>. ” extra large bulbs ,, 35/-; „ 4/- o 7 
Double Jonquil, flowers of a rich full yellow, small, very elegant, and delightfully 
; per 100. 8/6 i 3 
For Campernelle Jonquil and Queen Anne's Double Jonquil, see Narcissus Odorus 
varieties, page 32 of Daffodil Catalogue. 
Barr’s Lawn Grasses for September Sowing. 
Lawns should be renovated in SejJtemher, after the wear and tear of Summer, sowing at the rate 
of I Ib. per 100 square yards. liarr’s Thames Embankment Mixture, i/- per lb. ; Barr’s Standard 
Mixture for fine Lawns, 1/7 per lb.; Barr’s Dwarf Mixture for extra fine Lawns, 2/- per lb. Leaflet, 
with full particulars ami many hints on the management of Lawns, sent on application. 
