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TUBEROUS- 

 ROOTED 



BEGONIAS. 



This charming class of Begonias are perhaps the handsomest of all sum- 

 mer-Howering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve much greater popularity. 

 Improvements made in recent years in size, texture and coloring are really 

 phenomenal, with flowers frequently measuiing from 4g to 6 inches across, 

 and colors ranging from the purest white and tlie most delicate tints of pink, 

 yellow and orange to the most intense scarlet and richest crimson, while 

 the double-flowering sorts are perfect rosettes, full and double to the centre. 

 Their culture is of the simplest, and, with the least regard for their require- 

 ments will repay with an abundance and brilliancy of bloom not equalled 

 by any other class of plants; they delight in a rich, mellow, well-drained 

 soil, where they cm be liberally supplied with water, preferably in a posi- 

 tion where they will be shaded from the direct rays of the sun during the 

 hottest hour^ of the day, and will succeed equally well grown as pot plants 

 for the conservatory or window garden. On the a]iproach of cold weather 

 the tubers should be taken up, and, after drying, stored away in dry sand 

 or similar m.iterial in a cool place, free from frost until spring. 



SINGLE SORTS. 



Orange 

 Yellow. 



Scarlet. Pink. 



White. Crimson. 



]Octs. each; $1.00 per doz.; $6.00 per 100 



Single, All Colors Mixed, 



8 cts. each; 75 cis. per doz.; 

 $5.00 per 100. 



DOUBLE SORTS. 



Scarlet. White. 

 Pink. Yellow. 



20 cts. each ; $2 00 per doz. 

 Double, All Colors flixed. 



15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



THE TWO GLORIOUS 



TUBEROUS=ROOTED 



BEGONIAS, 

 Duke Zeppelin 



and Lafayette, 



Shown in colors on the back 

 cover of this book, are described 

 and offered on page 99. 



MA Gloire de Lorraine. 



New Fpilled Begonias. 



Single Tuberous-rooted Begonia. 



New Frilled 

 Tuberous Begonias. 



We first offered this novel type 

 in 1898; during the past six years 

 the strain by careful selection has 

 been wonderfully imi)roved, until 

 it is now unquestion.Tbly the finest 

 of the tuberous-rooted section. 

 The flowers are of large size, 

 from 4 to 6 inches in diameter, 

 with beautifully frilled and wavy 

 petals, not unlike the finest single 

 Petunias. (See cut.) 30 cts. 

 each ; $300 per doz. 



Hardy Begonia. 



Evansiana. A handsome and 

 distinct species from Java, 

 growing about 2 feel high, with 

 large dark green foliage, and 

 producing large, showy, flesh- 

 pink flowers in the greatest pro- 

 fusion. A most desirable .bed- 

 ding ]ilant which, if planted in 

 a well-drained position, will 

 withstand the winter if covered with a few inches of leaves at the ap- 

 proach of severe weather. 10 cts. each ; fil GO per doz. 



THE LORRAINE BEGONIAS. 



These are perfect gems, and undoubtedly the finest winter-flowering 

 plants we now possess. They prow from 12 to 15 inches high, and 

 naturally form graceful, bushy specimens, which from October until 

 A|iril are completely smothered with their soft, delicately colored 

 (lowers. 



Gloire de Lorraine. Soft rosy-pink, of fine form. 



Light Pink Lorraine. Of a lighter shade of pink ; a very tender 

 color. 



Plants of the above varieties can only be 

 supplied from July to January. Orders 

 booked .nnd filled in proper season. Price 

 for either, 25 cts. each ; $2 50 per doz. 



BEGONIA REX. 



(Ornamental-leaved Varieties.) 



M.Tiiy improvements have been made in 

 recent years in this useful house-plant. Our 

 collection, which contains some 20 varieties, 

 embraces all the good old varieties, as well 

 as the best of recent introduction. (See 

 cut.) 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. Rex uegonia. 



The finest of all Tuberous-rooted Begonias for outdoor culture, Duke Zeppelin and Lafayette. Sec page gg. 



