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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1936. 
BABIANA (Baboon Root), beautiful bulbous plants from the Cape, bearing in April—May tact- 
flowers ranging in colour from blue to rose and rich crimson, etc., set off by a dark green 
hairy foliage; some are sweetly scented. They are of dwarf compact habit, growing 
6 to 10 inches high, and are of great value for pots, rockeries, or the front of borders. 
They require a light soil and sunny situation, and during severe weather in winter should 
be given a light covering of dry heather or other such material. Plant 3 to 4 inches deep. 
Extra Choice Mixture of many beautiful colours.per 100, 20/-; per doz. 2/9 -/3 
stricta rubro-cyanea, one of the most charming of bulbous plants for culture in 
a cold greenhouse (from which frost can be excluded); producing in April numerous 
spikes of the most brilliant deep blue flowers with crimson centre, ht. 8 in., .per doz. 21/- 2/- 
xBEGONIAS, LARGE-FLOWERED SINGLE. 
Beautiful plants for greenhouse decoration or summer bedding. Pot up the tubers from February 
to March, or plant outdoors in April or May. 
per doz. each. 
Separate Colours for Bedding, Rich Scarlet, Orange-Scarlet, Dark Red, 
Yellcw, Rose, Apricot-Salmon, and White, flowers large and handsome. 
Each colour, per 100, 28/- 3/9 -/4 
Choice Mixture for Bedding . per 100, 25/- 3/6 -/4 
Separate Colours, Extra selected tubers for pot-culture . 5/6 -/6 
Barr’s Choice Single Exhibition Begonias, for pot-culture, 
of stiff erect habit and bearing large round-petalled flowers of finest form and substance. 
In Separate Colours, per doz. 12/- & 18/— 
xBEGONIAS, LARGE-FLOWERED SINGLE FRILLED. 
A beautiful strain with very large handsome flowers borne on stiff erect stems 
well above the foliage, the petals having their edges beautifully crimped and frilled ; 
very free-flowering ; we strongly recommend them for bedding or for pot culture. 
In Separate Colours :—Rich Scarlet, Orange-Scarlet, Dark Red, Full Rose, 
Rich Salmon, Yellow, and White . Each colour, per 100, 30/- 4/- -/5 
Mixed Shades of Colour .per 100,28/- 3/9 -/4 
xBEGONIAS, LARGE-FLOWERED DOUBLE. 
Separate Colours for Bedding, Rich Scarlet, Orange-Scarlet, Crimson, 
Yellow, Rose, Apricot-Salmon and White, flowers very large and handsome. 
Each colour, per 100, 32/6 4/6 -/5 
Choice Mixture for Bedding, in good variety of colour.per 100, 28/- 3/9 -/4 
Separate Colours, Extra selected tubers for pot-culture . 7/6 -/8 
Choice Exhibition Begonias, for pot-culture, a grand strain, flowers 
of beautiful form. In Separate Colours, per doz. 15/-, 25/- & 42/— 
xBEGONIAS, DOUBLE FRINGED, for pot-culture. 
Very double Camellia-shaped flowers, with beautifully frilled petals. 
i each of 6 selected colours. 4/6 j 3 each of 6 selected colours ........12 /6 
xBEGONIA pendula hybrids, suitable for hanging baskets, in mixed shades of 
rose, scarlet and pink, all beautiful and harmonising well together. 8/6 -/9 
BELLADONNA LILIES. See Amaryllis Belladonna, page 12. 
B LET I A. See Catalogue of Bulbs for Spring Planting. 
BLUE BELLS. See Scilla nutans, page 58. 
BRODI^EA (Californian Hyacinth), beautiful June-July flowering bulbs, well deserving a 
place in every choice border or for select nooks in the rock garden. Plant 3 to 4 inches 
deep, selecting a warm well-drained situation and surround the bulbs with a little sand. 
Candida, bearing umbels of large flowers of a very pale azure-blue; handsome border 
plant, ht. 1 ft...per doz. 4/6 -/5 
coccinea (Scarlet Fire-Cracker of California), a remarkably handsome plant bearing 
graceful umbels of long tubular blood-red flowers, tipped green, ht. 2 ft.per doz. 12/6 1/3 
gnandif lora, a charming little dwarf early Summer flower for the rock garden, edgings, 
or massing in borders, colour a pretty bright blue, ht. % ft., .per 100, 14/-; per doz. 2/- -/3 
laxa maxima, bearing umbels of rich dark purple-blue flowers, very handsome and 
decorative, ht. 1 ft.per 100, 12/6; per doz. 1/9 -/2 
BULBOCODIUM vernum, producing early in Spring a mass of bright rose-purple 
Crocus-like flowers, valuable for edgings, rock garden, and naturalising in grass ; plant 
from September to end of November, ht. £ ft.per 100, 48/-; per doz. 6/6 -/7 
