TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS 



Fig. 1580. — Single TrBKRous-RooTEb Begonia, Sutton's Qceen of Whites. 

 ( Engraved from a photograph. ) 



results should be obtained the first 

 season. If you can command a fairly 

 even temperature of 60 or 70 degrees, 

 you can commence to start the tubers 

 at once by securing a flat wooden box 

 (not a match box), two inches and a 

 half deep, with holes bored through the 

 bottom sufficiently large for drainage 

 purposes, the box to be of a size so 

 that the tubers can be placed on it, and 

 allow about one inch of space between 

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each one. Put about half an inch of 

 damp sand in the box first, so as to 

 cover the bottom of the box evenly, 

 then place the tubers in as above stated, 

 and fill in around them with sufficient 

 dry sand to cover them and water thor- 

 oughly. If the sand settles unevenly 

 after watering even up with dry sand, 

 water again so as to settle the sand 

 firmly around the tubers and when this is 

 done the tubers should be barely show- 



