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BEGONIA ACME. Intermedia x Sedeni. (See p. 21.) 



greenhouse temperature, if covered rather closely by means of a handlight, or 

 a sheet or two of plain glass ; but if sown so late, the tubers will still be 

 so small by the advent of winter that they cannot bloom until the following 

 season, which means the loss of nearly a twelvemonth in time. There is 

 another drawback to the practice of late sowing, which is that, strange as it 



