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Miss Ella V, Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Ohio. 



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i Price, 10 cents each; or the set of ten choice sorts for 75 cents. I _ 



I Any three for 25 cents; any six for 50 cents. :'::::: |" 



Easy to flower, exquisite in coloring, and 

 sure to please all who try them. 



Argentea Guttata. 



— Purple bronze 

 leaves, oblong in 

 shape,silvery mark- 

 ings, and in every 

 wav a most beauti- 

 ful Begonia. White 

 flowers in large 

 bunches. Itis splen- 

 did for house cul- 

 ture. 



•President Carnot. 

 —The leaves are 

 smooth, long, 

 pointed and pret- 

 tily blotched. The 

 body of the leaf is 

 a dark green, stud- 

 ded with bright 

 silvery spots. Cov- 

 ered with hand- 

 some rosy white 

 flowers. A splendid 

 house Begonia, be- 

 ing of quick growth, 

 and having both 

 handsome flowers 

 and foliage makes 

 it very desirable. 

 Alba Perfect* Grandiflora.— A Begonia that has 



never been appreciated as it should be, as it 



is really elegant, and we doubt if there is a 



white-flowered variety that equals it. The 



foliage resembles Rubra in shape, but is a 



lighter green, while the flower panicles are 



much handsomer. A pure white flowering 



Begonia. Try it. 

 Kuchsoides Cocrlnea.— Elegant free blooming variety. It resembles Hy- 



brida Multiflora in growth. The flowers are a bright scarlet. 

 Zebrina — An erect-growing variety, with a beautiful profusion of pendant 



leaves. Besides its graceful form the leaf is 1 distinguished by its 



f listening, silvery shading following the leaf, the body being a very 

 ark, velvety green, underside plum color, vein green. Flower pure 

 white. A beautiful variety. 



New Bevonia, Dewdrop. — In the new Begonia Dewdrop we have the best 

 flowering Begonia ever obtained. Its graceful flowers are produced 

 in profusion all during the Summer and Winter. It is a dwarf, com- 

 pact growing variety, the foliage is a bright, glossy green, with shell- 

 shaped leaves and stems of light crimson. The blooms are produce! 

 in clusters of from six to eight florets, which are satiny white, with 

 golden yellow stamens. When placed out in the sun during Summer 

 the color changes to a delicate shade of pink, with crimson stems, 

 making a beautiful contrast. Unlike other Begonias. It is a profuse 

 bloomer. Eighty-seven clusters of flowers have been counted on a 

 single plant. 



Bertha de Chateaurooher. — Next to Dewdrop this is the freest flowering 

 Begonia we have. It blooms the year round, makes a handsome win- 

 dow plant with its beautiful foliage and bright, currant red flowers. 



Rubra. — If you can have only one Begonia, let it be a Rubra. It 

 is so fast growing that it will in a year or two reach the top 

 of your window, sending up heavy, stiff canes an inch in 

 diameter, and rising beside them will grow strong, slender 

 branches, gracefully drooping under heavy waxen leaves 

 and pendant panicles of coral colored flowers as large as a 

 hand. Medium-sized plants are frequently seen with more 

 than twenty such panicles at a time. Among the individual 

 flowers you will find three distinct forms growing side by side. 



Begonia, Brnanti,— The leaves are so glossy they appear to have 

 been triple varnished, shrubby, bearing sprays of delicate 

 blossoms covering the whole plant. 



HcBethii. Of the Weltoniensis type, with very deeply indented 

 leaves, which are fine and small. Shrubby in growth and 

 very free flowering, being constant the year round. A fine 

 Summer bedding plant, if given a light soil and perfect shade. 

 Put it among your ferns. White flowers, waxy in texture, 

 carried in panicles. 



TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS. 



These are among the very handsomest of our Summer bloom- 

 ing plants, flowering throughout the season, and as fine and 

 varied in their colors as the Geranium family. They are splendid 

 bedders, delighting in a light soil of woods earth, very old cow 

 manure and sharp sand. See that the bed is in partial shade, and 

 you will be delighted with the results. In the South, or where 

 they cannot be planted in the shade of a house, a covering of 

 burlap or canvas, some six or eight feet above them, merely to 

 throw off the sun's rays, will allow them to come to absolute 

 perfection, but they must have plenty of light and air. Do not 

 allow them to become dry, and during hot weather they will 



take two waterings a day. When through flowering they car. be 

 dried off, shaken free of earth, wrapped in cotton until February 

 or March, when they may be started again. 



SINGLE.— White, Yellow, Crimson, Rose, Scarlet. Price, 20 



cents each; three for 50 cents. 

 DOUBLE.— In the same colors. Price, 40 cents each; three for 



$1.00. 



REX BEGONIAS. 



These Begonias hare the handsomest foliage of any plant. 

 Price, 20 cents each; three for 50 cents. All distinct Tarieties. 



