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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1936. 
NARCISSUS POLYANTHUS. The Sacred Good Luck Lily or Jos each. 
Flower of China and Japan. Imported from Northern China, and prized for the 
abundance of its flowers and marvellously rapid growth. The flowers are white, with 
yellow cup, and very fragrant. Each bulb produces several flower-spikes, bearing many 
flowers. In China the bulbs are grown in the living-rooms in fancy bowls filled simply 
with pebbles and water, and the natives compete with one another in growing the finest 
specimens for their New Year’s Festival of “ Good Luck.” Circular with full directions 
for successful culture sent on application. Very large bulbs, per doz. 9/6 —/10 
Small Pebbles for growing the “ Good Luck Lily ” in (one quart for 3 bulbs), per quart 8 d. 
NERINES, Beautiful New Varieties. See pages SO & 31 of Daffodil Catalogue. 
ORNITHOGALUM (Star of Bethlehem), very pretty hardy bulbs, flowering in Spring and 
early Summer. Pyramidale, Nutans, and Umbellatum are charming plants for natura¬ 
lising in woodlands, meadows, etc. ; the two latter will thrive in dense shade where few 
other plants will grow. Plant from September to November, 
arabicum, bearing in June handsome fragrant white flowers with glistening black central 
boss and yellow anthers. Plant on warm sunny south borders 4 inches deep, and pro¬ 
tect during winter ; by slight forcing it may be had in bloom by Easter, ht. 1-| ft. 
per 100, 18/6 ; doz. 2/8 -/3 
lacteum (The Chincherinchee of South Africa), a very beautiful plant for the cool 
greenhouse bearing elegant racemes of satiny white flowers with primrose-yellow anthers ; 
the cut flowers remain fresh in water for many weeks, ht. 14 ft. Orders boohed for delivery 
in February .per doz. 7/6 -/8 
narbonense, a very graceful border plant, resembling O. pyramidale but of more slender 
habit, having elegant spikes of white flowers in early Summer, ht. 2 ft.per doz. 4/6 —jo 
nutans, elegant spikes of beautiful silvery grey flowers, shaded outside pale sea-green ; 
valuable for cutting and naturalising in woodlands, etc., ht. 1 ft... per 100,12/6 ; per doz. 1/9 -/2 
pyramidale, long spikes of beautiful snowy white flowers in early June; a charming 
plant for massing in herbaceous borders and woodlands, also prized for cutting, ht. 2 ft. 
per 100, 30/- ; per doz. 4/- -/5 
umbellatum, the old Star of Bethlehem, bearing elegant umbels of pure white starry 
flowers ; very effective in masses and edgings, and valuable to naturalise, 
ht. 1J ft.per 100, 7/6 ; per doz. 1/3 -/2 
,, splendens, a much improved variety of the above, bearing a larger umbel 
of flowers, very effective, ht. 1^ ft.per 100, 10/6; per doz. 1/6 -/2 
OSTROWSKYA magnifica, a grand herbaceous perennial, bearing in summer immense 
bell-shaped flowers, 6 in. in diameter, satiny silvery lilac flushed white, ht. 3 ft. First- 
Class Certificate R.H.S. Plant in a light, well-drained, gritty or sandy soil against a 
sunny wall, and slightly protect in spring. Strong home-grown roots, per doz. 16/- 1/6 
OXALIS (Wood-Sornel), remarkably pretty little subjects delighting in hot dry positions 
in the rock garden, etc., planted in a light sandy soil. In Autumn those marked x should 
be lifted and stored in dry soil or sand, being potted up in early Spring for cold greenhouse 
culture, or planted out later for Summer blooming. They all make pretty pot plants, 
adenophylla, a lovely little hardy species from Chile forming small compact rosettes of 
foliage and dainty small lilac-pink flowers opening only in the sun, ht. 3 in.; plant in the 
rock garden or in pots from end of August to November.per doz. 5/6 -/6 
x floribunda, producing from Summer to Autumn a profusion of charming rose-coloured 
flowers, with dark veins, ht. 8 in.per doz. 4/6 -/5 
x ,, alba, producing an abundance of beautiful white flowers, ht. 8 in., .per doz. 4/6 -/5 
x PANCRATIUM, very handsome bulbous plants, suitable for pot culture in cool greenhouse, 
or planted outdoors, under a south wall, with their tops 6 inches below the surface, 
maritimum (The Sea Daffodil), producing umbels of large snowy white flowers, of 
elegant trumpet form, delightfully fragrant, ht. 1J ft.per doz. 12/6 1/3 
calathinum (The Sea Daffodil of Peru). See Hymenocallis calathina, page 34. 
x POLYGONATUM (Solomon’s Seal, or David’s Harp), producing numerous drooping 
white flowers on graceful arching leafy stems ; shade-loving plants, valuable for naturalising 
in woodlands, wild gardens, shady flower borders, etc. They also make very elegant pot 
plants, and may be forced into bloom by February. Plant November to February, 
macrophyllum, the Giant Solomon’s Seal, a fine variety with large handsome foliage 
and long graceful arching spikes of white flowers, ht. 3 ft.per 100, 35/-; per doz. 5/- -/6 
multiflorum, Solomon’s Seal, a fine bold plant of graceful habit, having arching leafy 
stems with pendent white flowers, ht. 1£ to 2 ft.per 100, 25/- ; per doz. 3/6 -/q 
PUSCHKINIA scilloides (syn. libanotica), The Lebanon Squill, a beautiful little 
April-flowering bulb, prized for the permanent flower border and rock garden ; it is also a 
lovely indoor pot-plant (6 bulbs in a pot); the flowers are white, shaded and striped soft- 
clear blue, ht. 6 in. Plant from Sept, to Nov. 3 inches deep_per 100, 9/6 ; per doz. 1/4 -/2 
