70 WINDOW AND PARLOR GARDENING 
face of the soil in a pot covered with a flat piece of glass and 
kept moist, shaded, and in a temperature of about 60 or 65 
degrees. When the extremely small seedlings -are sufficiently 
large to be handled they should be pricked out in pans or pots, 
later on singly in small pots. The best kinds are: 
Tuberous-rooted Begonia. 
B. boliviensis. Leaves three to four inches, triangular, ser- 
rate. Flowers in large drooping clusters, scarlet, summer- 
flowering. 
B. Davisii. Low, compact; leaves rounded, heart-shaped, 
green on upper surface, red below, hairy. Inflorescence four 
to five inches high, flowers red, in umbellate clusters. Very 
beautiful. 
