ties as wellas the best of recent 
Fo) GARDEN = GREENHOUSE PLANTS | f] 
DO OnE BEGO NIAS. 
This charming class of Begonias are perhips the handsomest of all sum- 
mer-flowering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve much greater. popularity. 
Improvements made in recent years in size, texture and coloring are really 
phenomenal, with flowers frequently measuring from 44 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 scarlet and richest crim-on, while the 
double-flowering sorts are perfect rosettes, full and double to the’ centre. 
‘Their culture 1s 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 can be liberaily supplied with water, preterably in a position 
where they will beshaded from the direct rays of the sun during the hottest 
hours of the day, and will succeed equally well grown as pot plants for the 
4 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 SORTS. 
Scarlet. White. Pink. Crimson. Yellow. Orange, 
10 cts. each; $1 00 per doz; $6.00 per 100. 
Single, All Colors [ixed. 
8 cts. each ; 75 cts. per doz.; $5.00 per 100. 
DOUBLE SORTS. 
Scarlet. Pink. White. Yellow. 
20 cts. each ; $2.00 per doz. 
Double, All Colors Mixed. 
\ 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
2 New Frilled Tuberous Begonias. 
S1nGLE TuBEROous-RooTEep BEGONIA. We first offered this novel type in 1898; since then the strain, by careful 
Sone =y selection, has been wonderfully improved, 
BEGONIA REX. | | 
until it is now unquestionably the finest of 
(Ornamental-leaved.) 
the tuberous-rooted section, The flowers 
are of large size, from 4 to 6 inches in di- 
ameter, with beautifully frilled and wavy 
petals, not unlike the finest single Petunias. 
(See cut.) 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz, 
Two Waluable Tuber- 
ous-rooted Begonias. 
These two gorgeous Begonias offered be- 
low were shown in colors on the cover of 
our Garden Book for 1904. They were sold 
in large quantities during the past three 
Many improvements have been 
made in recent years in this use- 
ful house-plant. Our collection, 
which contains some 12 varieties, | 
embraces all the good old varie- | 
introductions, (See cut.) 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
2 years, and have given general satisfaction, 
FIBROUS Both varieties are of strong but dwarf 
ROOTED habit, 8 to 10 inches in height, and throw 
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BEGONIAS up numberless stems of full, double flowers 
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from early in July until cut down by severe 
frost. A continuous display of color. 
which for richness and intensity is unap- 
proached by any other flower. 
Duke Zeppelin. Intense pure vermilion- 
Alba Picta. Leaves glossy 
green, freely spotted with sil- 
very-white. 
Argentea Guttata. Foliage cere 
of rich green, spotted with sil- 4 Lafayette. Brilliant crimson-scarlet. 
ver. New Fritiep Bgconias. 25 cts. each; $2 50 per doz.; $18 00 per 100. 
Haageana. Larze flowers of a creamy white, with just sufficient pink to ae 
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. 
Nitida alba. Very free-flowering, pure white. 
Rubra (Coral Begonia). Dark greek leaves, flowers scarlet rose, glossy 
and wax-like. 
Saundersoni. Scarlet flowers; in bloom continually. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. Set of 7 varieties for 85 cts. 
THE LORRAINE BEGONIAS. 
These are perfect gems, and undoubtedly the finest winter-flowering 
plants we now possess. They grow from 12 to 15 inches high, and natur- sw: a 
ally form graceful, bushy specimens, which from October until April are  « GS Sunn 
completely smothered with their soft, delicately colored flowers. 
Gloire 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- ( ae ‘i 
blossom-like flowers of pink and ‘white. SS . 
Plants of the above three varieties can only be sup»lied from July to Jan- 
uary. Orders booked and filled in proper season. Price for either: Good 
plants, in 3-inch pots, 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. RBeconia Rex 
The new Scarlet Sage, “Ball of Fire,’’ shown in colors on the front cover of this book, is offered on page 106, 
