BARR’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES, Autumn, 1916. 
A Few Fine Novelties and Specialities 
In Bulbs and Tubers for 1916. 
W Those bulbs and tubers marked thus x ripen late in the year and are sent out from 
November to March, All other bulbs, etc., are ready for despatch in September, Orders 
which embrace earlier and later ripening bulbs, etc., will be executed therefore in two parts. 
AMARYLLIS Belladonna. Parkeri, a very handsome new hybrid of Amaryllis Bella- 
donna crossed with Brunsvigia Josephinae, producing a handsome umbel of 18 or more 
rose-coloured flowers, deepening with age and slightly tinged yellow towards centre ; it 
makes a handsome pot plant 7 g 
ANEMONE 
1 St. Brigid, an extra fine strain of these lovely Poppy Anemones, flowers very large, 
mostly semi-double, with finely divided petals, and of the most brilliant and varied shades 
of colour, all having a handsome blue-black central boss ; ht. 1 ft. ( IVe send out only 
healthy young flowering roots giving the best results) per 100, 10/6 ; -per doz. 1/6 — • 
St. Bavo, a beautiful new race of Anemones, originating from the large-flowered Anemone 
fulgens aldborohensis ; the flowers, which are produced from early March to end of April, 
are large and graceful and range in colour from rose, salmon, and brick-red to dark carmine 
and sometimes white, ht. 1 ft per doz. 5/6 o fj 
CAMASSIA — Barr’s Large-flowered Hybrids, a new giant race of the Quamash, 
throwing up stately spikes 3 to 4 ft. high, clothed with large star-shaped flowers ranging 
from white to pale and full blue and the richest purple ; exceedingly handsome border plains 
v ; per doz. 4/6 o jj 
CROCUS, Rare and Beautiful Species, autumn, winter, and Bpring-flowering, gems for the 
rock garden and pots. Special descriptive list on application. 
FREESIA. — Beautiful New Varieties, strongly recommended as pot plants and to cut for vases. 
Their colours are bright and attractive and all are delightfully fragrant. 
Golden Guinea, the darkest Yellow Freesia, flowers of deep old-gold colour, shaded 
bronze on exterior of petals 5 6 
Mauve Ideal, flowers very large, delicate silvery lavender, tube and centre white coloured 
chrome at base, centre golden-blolched, very beautiful per doz. 25/- 
Old Gold, flowers very large, well open at mouth, colour canary shaded primrose with 
daik golden markings, buds shaded apricot 
Robinetta, flowers large, rosy lake with white throat darkly veined and yellow centre i 
the richest coloured of this type per doz. 25/- 2 
Barr’s Beautiful New Hybrids, in a great variety of colours — rose, pink, ruby, 
salmon, coppery bronze, apricot, yellow, primrose, lavender, etc., per 100, 30/- ; per doz. 4/3 
(For other beautiful Freesias see page 25.) 
IRISES New or Rare Hardy Species and Varieties. 
bucharica lutea (new), probably a cross between I. bucharica and I. orchioides, 
flowers a pretty yellow, strong grower, ht. I ft 2 
Blue Giant, a grand new English Iris with flowers of remarkable size, the standards 
being 25 in. long and 2 in. across, violet-purple marbled black, while the falls are 3J- in. long 
and 2f in. broad, of a brilliant blue with velvety black spotting and marbling and a very 
conspicuous creamy while blotch with yellow streak ; a noble plant, ht. 2.} ft. First-Class 
Certificate, IIaari.em 2 
Cantab, a charming little early bulbous Iris, raised by Mr. E. A. Bowles; it is allied to 
/. reticulata and has pale blue standards and pale violet falls with a golden-orange crest. It 
has a good constitution and increases freely. A gem for pots and rockwork. Award of 
Merit R.H.S 5 
fill-folia, true, a lovely new bulbous species, bearing in June elegant flowers of a beautiful 
violet-purple, set off by a striking orange blotch on the falls. Award of Merit R.H.S. 
June 22, 1915 2 
gracilipes, a rare and dainty Japanese alpine species forming cushions of soft green foliage 
from which rise slender spikes of soft lilac-blue flowers with golden crest, ht. 4 in., per doz. 1 5/- 
King of the Blues, a very fine English Iris, bearing large flowers of a brilliant dark 
blue, the standards being more or less flaked a darker shade, ht. 22 in per doz. 4/6 
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