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house or garden. The most useful for plant- 

 ing in all locations is the semperflorens 

 class, which grow in round bunches, with 

 many branches coming straight from the 

 soil. They attain the height of 6 inches to 

 2 feet, are perpetual and brilliant bloomers, 

 forming masses of color for months of the 

 year. After growing up and bearing a crop 

 of blossoms, the old stems should be cut 

 away and the plants will spring up from the 

 roots, blooming as they come. Plants will 

 often continue this way, without being divi- 

 ded, in our climate, for three or four years, 

 blooming all the time. Begonias are semi- 

 succulent, which gives them great powers 

 of endurance, so that they do not wither 

 easily and can be transplanted without in- 

 jury, and moved to other parts of the gar- 

 den or to pots. 



Begonias can be seen in our garden and 

 greenhouses from 6 inches to twelve feet in 

 height, growing at all seasons of the year, 

 and always in bloom. When all other flow- 

 ers are scarce, we always have quantities of 

 begonias. While they are valuable for 

 house plants and for summer bedding out- 

 side, they are simply ideal in California all 



the time. We would suggest to Eastern cus- 

 tomers planting begonias outside in the 

 summer in partially shaded places, which 

 will give them a vigorous growth for winter 

 if taken up with care and potted in Septem- 

 ber. 



Mrs. Shepherd's Grand Tree 

 Begonias 



Words are inadequate to describe the 

 beauty of these splendid Begonias as they 

 appear in our lath and green houses. Of the 

 President Carnot type, but greatly superior. 

 All have large, oblong leaves and immense 

 panicles of very large flowers in shades of 

 pink and red. They are tree-like, strong 

 and robust, sending up a great number of 

 canes to the height of 6 to 10 feet. Foliage 

 yellowish or bronze-green, exquisitely beauti- 

 ful in texture, with shining silken lustre. 

 The difference between the various plants 

 consists in size and shape of leaves, and 

 the brilliant colors with which they are at 

 various times tinged or illuminated; they 

 change in the different stages of growth. 

 The shades of color are bronze, red, terra 



Tree Begonia "Fair Rosamond" 



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