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BEGONIA ROSE CELESTE. Improved form. (See p. 88.) 



a loose bloom, that is, with spaces between each petal when the flower was 

 fully expanded. By degrees something better, as will be seen by reference to 

 the illustrations of the hybrids which succeeded B. Sedeni, was produced, while 

 the illustrations of Mr. Laing and Mr. Cannell's modern flowers in previous 

 pages give a pretty correct idea of the form of the finest circular blooms of the 

 present day. The roundness, regularity and finish of the petals, and, indeed, 

 of the whole bloom, each and all count for a great deal ; and it is also 

 necessary that a good flower should open well, that is to say, that the petals 



