Plate 451. 



BEGONIA CARMINATA. 



Wlien the beautifal Begonia Bolivensis was introduced, we 

 expressed an opinion that it would be found very useful, not 

 only as a handsome decorative plant, but also as likely to form 

 the parent of many interesting hybrids. Mr. Veitch's B. 

 Sedeni, and others, and Mr. Bull's numerous varieties, testify 

 that this is so, and we have no doubt that we shall yet see 

 some more handsome varieties produced by hybridizing. 



Begonias do not require a large amount of heat, an inter- 

 mediate house suiting them very weU, and a compost of peat, 

 loam, and thoroughly decomposed manure, to which a little 

 silver sand must be added, affording them a suitable soil ; they 

 may be kept in small pots, and will flower freely thus, but they 

 make also fine plants when shifted and grown on ; and as many 

 of them flower in the dull winter months, they are especially 

 valuable. 



Begonia carniinata, which Mr. Bull has kindly permitted us 

 to figure, is a very distinct hybrid, having deeply serrated leaves, 

 margined with red, and thickly spotted over with brownish-red 

 spots, while the flowers are of a pale pink. A plant of it was 

 exhibited at South Kensington by Mr. Bull, and was mucli 

 admired. 



