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18S 



TUBEROUS 



HOOTED 



B£:Gom^A.s;. 



Single and Double Tuberous Bhgonia. 



BEGONIA REX (Omamental-leaved). 



Many improvements have been made in recent years in 

 this useful house plant. Our collection, which contains 

 some 12 varieties, embraces all the good old varieties as 

 well as the best of recent introductions. 



15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



FIBROUS-ROOTEn 



glossy 



BEGONIAS. 



reen, freely spotted with silvery- 



This charming class of Begonias is perhaps the handsomest of all 

 summer-fiowering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserves much greater 

 popularity. Improvements made in recent years in size, texture and col- 

 oring are really phenomenal, with flowers frequently measuring from 4| 

 to 6 inches across, and colors ranging from the purest white and the 

 most delicate tints of pink, yellow and orange to the most intense scar- 

 let and richest crimson, while the double-flowering soits are perfect 

 rosettes, full and double to the centre. Their culture is of the sim- 

 plest ; they delight in a rich, mellow, well-drained soil, where they 

 can be lilierally supplied with water, preferatly in a position where 

 they will be well shaded from the direct rays of the sun during the hot- 

 test hours of the day, and will succeed equally well grown as pot plants 

 for the conservatory or window garden. On the approach of cold 

 weather the tubers should be taken up, and, after drying, stored away 

 in dry sand or similar material in a cool place, free from frost until 

 spring. 



Single, Scarlet, white, pink, crimson, yellow and orange. 



10 cts. each ; $1.00 per doz.; $6 00 per 100. 



Single, Mixed. 8 cts. each; 75 cts. per doz.; $5.00 per 100. 



Double. Scarlet, pink, while and yellow. 



20 cts. each ; $2.00 per doz. 



Double, Alixed. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



New Frilled Tuberous Begonias. 



This strain, by careful selection, has been wonilerfuUy improved, 

 until it is now unquestionably the finest of the tuberous-rooted 

 section. The flowers are of large size, from 4 to 6 inches, in diameter, 

 with beauiifully frilled and wavy petals, not unlike the finest single 

 Petunias. (See cut.) 30 cts. each ; $3.00 per doz. 



Two Valuable Tuber- 

 ous-rooted Begonias. 



Two gorgeous varieties of strong but 

 duarf habit, 8 to 10 inches in height, 

 and throwing up numberless stems of 

 full, double flowers from early in July 

 uiuil cut down by severe frost. A con- 

 tinuous display of color, which, for rich- 

 ness and nitensity, is unajiproached by 

 any other flower. 

 Duke Zeppelin. Intense pure vermil- 



iiin-scnrlet. 

 Lafayette. Brilliant crimson-scarlet. 

 25 cts. each ;■ $2.50 per doz.; $18 00 

 per 100. 



Alba Picta. Leaves 



white. 



Argentea (iuttata. Foliage of rich green, spotted with silver. 

 liaageana. Large flowers of a creamy white, with just sufficient 



pink to give them a bright, cheerful glow ; foliage bronzy-green 



above, red below. 

 Metallica. A fine erect growing variety, with dark, rough 



leaves ; the surface is a lustrous bronze-green ; veins depressed 



and dark red. • 

 Rubra [Coral Be^^onia). Dark green leaves, flowers scarlet rose, 



glossy and wax-like. 

 Saundersonl. Scarlet flowers ; in bloom continually. 



15 cts. each ;' $1.50 per doz. Set of 6 varieties for 75 cts. 



THE EORRAINE BEGONIAS, 



These are perfect gems, and undoubtedly the finest winter- 

 fiowering pla'nis we now possess. They grow from 12 to 15 inches 

 high, and natur;illy form graceful, bushy specimens, which from 

 October until April are completely smothered with their soft, deli- 

 cately colored flowers. 



Qlpire de Lorraine. Soft rosy-pink of fine form. 

 Light Pink Lorraine. Of a lighter shade of pink. 

 Turnford Hall. A lovely and chaste variety, producing large, 



apple-blossom-like flowers of pink and white. 



Plants of the above three varieties can only be supplied from 

 July to January. Orders booked and filled in proper season. 

 Price for either: Good plants, in 3-inch pots, 25 cts. each; $2.50 

 per doz. : 



Frilled TuBiij<ous Blgoni.v 



If you want an effective bedV try Cahnas, bttrdtred with Pitliiisttum. (See pages 14Q and 157.) 



