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CHICAGO. APRIL I, 1896. 





MR. BARRS BEGONIAS. 



The Greenhouse. 



BEGONIAS AND HOW TO GROW TMEM. 



The accompanying illustration, en- 

 graved from a photograph, shows a 

 group of begonias, ferns and foliage plants 

 in the winter garden greenhouse of Mr. 

 Wm. Barr ot Orange, N. J. The begonia 

 in front ir. flower is Maiiicata aurea var- 

 iegata: the fern immediately below it is 

 Davallia Fijiensis; tliose to' the left and 

 right are Adiantum cuneatum. The Rex 

 begonia to the left in front of the adian- 

 tum \s grandis: the one in front of the fern 

 to the right is Robt. Jenkins. In front of 

 grandis is Bertha MacGregor, and that 



below Robert Jenkins is B.Rex Fire King. 

 The little plant in flower at the right 

 hand corner is the violet flowered Saint- 

 paulia ionantha. In the groups are also 

 the following varieties of Begonia Rex: 

 bouis Closson, Perle Humfeldt, President 

 Camot, Eclipse, Miranda, Mme. Treyve, 

 Mnie. Lemoine and Queen of Hanover. 

 The pendent begonias are Begonia glauco- 

 phylla scandens, coming into bloom. 

 The upright plant in the right hand cor- 

 ner is Dacrydium cupressimum. The little 

 palms showing through the begonias arc 

 Cocos Weddeliana, which we find very 

 useful for table decoration. 



HOW WE GROW BEGONIAS 



We make leaf cuttings of the Rex sec- 

 tion in January, cutting the leaves into 



V-shaped sections where the veins of the 

 leaves meet, and put them upright in the 

 cutting bench. As soon as rooted thev 

 are potted into 2-inch pots and repotted 

 on as required. The soil should be a little 

 lighter than that for the flowering sec- 

 tion. The pots should be well drained. 

 We grow them in the greenhouse well 

 shaded all the summer, though they will 

 do very nicely in ashaded place intlie gar- 

 den planted out in the summer. In fact 

 we use all of our old plants for bedding 

 out in shady nooks in rockeries, and for 

 edging beds of fuchsias at the north side 

 of buildings. If they are required for win- 

 ter decoration thev should be lifted and 

 potted eariy in September. Indoors they 

 like genial warmth, shade and moisture 

 without sourness. 



