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*APIOS tuberosa, a rapid-growing elegant hardy deciduous climber, for arbours, trellises, &c. , 
flowers deliciously scented ...per doz. 2/6 o 
*ARTHROPODIUM cirrhatum, a fine cool greenhouse perennial, having characteristic 
foliage, and producing numerous panicles of white flowers, valuable for cutting, 3 ft. ...doz. 4/6 o 
ARUM, curious and interesting border plants, more or less handsome. They should be given 
choice spots on the border or rockwork. As pot-plants they are very ornamental. 
Dracunculus and Italicum are quite hardy ; the other species require Winter protection, 
such as ashes, leaves, litter, or cocoa fibre, and should be grown by preference in light loamy 
soil on a sunny border. 
•oornutum (syn. Sauromatum guttatum), red flowers, spotted black, stems curiously 
marbled, handsome foliage, l| ft. Plant in a sunny place in March or April or pot up 
earlier per doz. 7/6 o 
crinitum, flowers reddish brown, and of immense size, stem marbled ,, 7/6 o 
Dioscoridis spectabile, bearing magnificent blackish-purple flowers, taller and flowering 
a few weeks later than A. palastinum (ht. 3 to 3-J ft. with good culture) per doz. 10/6 t 
dracunculus, large purple-red and black-blue flowers, marbled stem, very handsome ,, 3/6 o 
Eggeri, crimson-purple margined green, with large velvety dark maroon spadix, Spring- 
flowering per doz. 12/- 1 
italicum, flowers greenish white, followed by spikes of scarlet berries, leaves spotted ,, 1/3 o 
palaestinum {syn. sanctum), The Sacred Black Calla from Lebanon, 
flowers velvety black inside, olive-coloured outside, sweet-scented, handsome ornamental 
foliage, Spring-flowering strong, per doz. 7/6 o 
BABIANA, the flowers range in colour from blue to the richest crimson-magenta, and are set off 
by a dark green hairy foliage. They have a fine dwarf compact habit, and are of great value 
for pots, rockeries, or the front of borders. Culture same as for the Ixia, see page 37. 
Extra choice mixture, of many beautiful colours per 100, 7/6 ; per doz. 1/3 .. 
‘'BEGONIA, Barr's Large-flowered Single Bedding varieties in separate 
colours, scarlet, crimson, rose, salmon, pink, white, orange, and yellow 
each colour, per too, 30/- ; per doz. 4/6 .. 
Choice Mixed Large-flowered Single varieties for bedding ,, 21/— ; ,, 3/- .. 
Barr’s Handsome Exhibition Single Begonias for pot-culture, having a 
stiff erect habit and large round-petalled flowers of fine form and substance, cannot be surpassed. 
In separate selected colours... per doz. 12/-, 15/-, & 21/— .. 
Barr’s Handsome Exhibition Double Begonias for pot-culture, flowers of 
grand form, equalling Camellias in symmetry, and of brilliant colours, 
In separate selected colours... per doz. 21/-, 30/-, &42/~ .. 
Barr’s Bedding Double Begonias, in six separate colours, white, scarlet, 
orange, yellow, deep rose and pink per 100, 45/- ; per doz. 6/6 .. 
Barr’s Bedding Double Begonias, mixed, in good variety of colour 
per 100, 35/- ; per doz. 5/- 
BELLADONNA AND GUERNSEY LILIES, see Amaryllis, page ro, and 
Nerine, page 48. 
'BESSERA elegans,a beautiful Mexican bulbous plant with graceful umbels of drooping bell- 
shaped, bright scarlet flowers ; grow in pots for indoors, or plant on rockwork in Spring, 
I ft per doz. 5/6 o 
BLOOMERIA aurea, producing in June beautiful umbels of golden-yellow flowers, striped 
brown, a fine showy flower for beds and borders ; it likes a light rich soil, 15 inches 
per 100, 18/-; per doz. 2/6 o 
BOBARTIA aurantiaca, a beautiful Summer-flowering bulb. See Homeria. 
BOMAREA salsilla {syn. oculata), a beautiful climber, producing clusters of red flowers 
spotted purple ; for greenhouse or warm positions outdoors ; it likes a compost of rough sand, 
turfy loam and peat, and while in growth it should occasionally be given manure water 
per doz. 2/6 o 
*BOUSINGAULTIA baselloides, an elegant climber, valuable for hanging baskets, window 
boxes, rustic tubs, &c. , leaves pale green and fleshy, flowers white and hawthorn scented, 
hardy on dry rockwork, or in well-drained sunny situations, otherwise plant in March and 
lift roots in autumn and store in sand per doz. 2/6 o 
*BRAYOA geminiflora, a handsome hardy plant for light soils and a sunny situation ; it 
throws up in July elegant racemes of salmon-orange tubular flowers, i j ft. ; it is best planted 
in March and lifted in October per doz. 4/6 o 
BRODI/EA, a very beautiful family of hardy bulbs, well deserving a place in every choice border, 
or for select nooks on rockwork. June-July flowering. When planting surround the bulbs 
with sharp sand. 
Bridgesii, a fine distinct species, bearing umbels of pretty purplish-rose flowers with light 
centre, ft per doz. 5/6 o 
californica, the largest-flowered of all the Broditcas ; the individual blooms resembling in 
shape a large Ixiolirion, of a delicate heliotrope shade of colour, are borne in graceful 
umbels, ht. 15 inches per doz. 5/6 o 
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