WINTER-FLOWERING AND EVERGREEN BEGONIAS. 



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B. hybrida Wellsiana is very pretty and effective with its 

 drooping flowers of a clear soft red. 



Bijou de Gand. Although the colour of its flowers is not of 

 the brightest, yet being produced very often when the snow is 

 on the ground, and when almost every flower is cherished, it 

 delights and astonishes many people with its profusion of soft 

 pink flowers. It has bright green foliage, and is of a dwarf 

 bushy habit. 



B. hybrida floribunda (syn. multifiora) is one of the prettiest 

 and most useful, producing bright coral-coloured flowers the 

 whole of the season. 



B. welioniensis, raised by Major Clarke, is another of the 

 prettiest, and, consideriDg its easy cultivation and its other 

 merits, I consider it to be one of the best pot plants in culti- 

 vation, and certainly the most useful. It has deep green 

 marbled foliage and flowers of a soft rose. 



B. Sutherlandi has flowers of quite a distinct colour, a bright 

 orange- amber tint, and blooms all through the year. I have 

 seen it trained into a splendid specimen plant. 



B. Ingramii (syn. Saundersiana and Laura) has deep green 

 foliage and flowers of a reddish pink. 



B. insignis (syn. incarnata) is a free and vigorous kind, with 

 flowers of a lilac-pink shade. 



M. Mug. Vallerand, a hybrid from the last, is of a dwarf 

 bushy habit, with flowers of a soft crimson-red. 



B. prestoniensis has rich orange-red flowers. 



B. castancefolia alba has blush- white flowers of medium 

 size ; it is also useful for bedding. 



Paul Bruant has very pretty pointed leaves, and is very free 

 flowering, showing a great superabundance of female flowers of 

 a soft pink. 



B. Verschaffeltiana is another bold-foliaged variety, with 

 large ovate acutely lobed leaves and rose-coloured pendent 

 flowers. 



Comtesse de Nevelee and Moonlight are apparently alike 

 partaking somewhat of the tuberous-rooted varieties ; they have 

 white flowers and continue in blossom for some considerable 

 time. 



B. geraniifolia is very floriferous, the pure white flowers 

 standing well up above the foliage. 



